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Mining & the mines, 1914

5,543 stories in Sydney's papers · page 81 of 250

The Mines. Strike at Bundabamba. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 11

The difference between the management and the men at Blackheath Colliery at Bundabamba resulted in the pit being idle on Tuesday. The trouble arose over the…

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Mining in the State. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 13

A report from O'connell states that mining at Old Breakfast Creek is being revived by a Victorian company. Recently it sent 20 tons of stone from the mine for assay, and the…

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Yorkshire Coal Strike. National Stoppage Possible. London, Thursday Morning

The Sun · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 9

Most of the Yorkshire collieries are closed, and the strike that Is now fairly entered upon will, it is believed, last several weeks. It is possible that the present trouble may…

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Housing the South Coast Miners. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 4

Sir,—May I be favoured with a little space to answer Mr. A. Lucas, who in to-day's issue of your paper, finds fault with my remarks as to the shameful conditions under which the…

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Mining. Prices Current on 'Change. Barriers Decidedly Easier

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 7

A fair amount of activity was displayed upon the Sydney mining market yesterday. Operations were confined, for the most part, to sliver-leads and tin-dredging propositions. the…

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Pure Water. Mining Near Cataract. Water Board Hostile

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 4

Strong opposition was shown yesterday at the meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board to a tentative application to allow coal-mining to be carried on in the vicinity of the Cataract…

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Fifty Thousand on Strike. American Mining Dispute. London, Thursday Morning

The Sun · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 1

Fifty thousand coal miners In Ohio (U.S.) have struck, work as the result of a dispute over the question of wages…

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Mining. London Down Local Market Slack in Barriers. Tin Stocks Very Sound

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1914 · page 13

Pronounced easier quotations in the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, together with a drop of 15/ in the price of lead, had a depressing effect upon speculation yesterday…

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Occidental Gold Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 13

According to the manager's report for the for[?] ended March l8, the are raised in 11 days totalled 1291[?] tons, of an average value of 10dwt Ogr gold. The co[?] centrates produeed are estimated at 10 tons, containing…

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Metropolitan Colliery Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 7

HELENSBURGH, Thursday.--The action of the wheelers in causing a second stoppage at the Metropolitan Colliery after the Minister laid decided to have inspections made of the…

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Financing a Mine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 3

Gulgong wants to sink a mine on his property, and asks me if I could form a small company to erect a battery and to work a mine on an area…

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Vegetable Creek Tin Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 13

Report for week ended March 28:—Allen shaft Crosscut 290ft from shaft in wash averaging [?] worth 1001b. The 545ft east crosscut advanced [?] and reefed. Wach average 30in. worth 2001b for 4f[?],…

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Spurious Gold Coins

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 4

A small mustard [?] containing 110 spurious half-sovereigns in an unfinished state, was discovered in the soil under a tree in Anderson-street, south…

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Australia's Gold Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 13

Last year the Commonwealth's exports of gold were smaller than in any previous year since Federation. Here are the detalla for each 12 months since that date:…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 13

A telegram received yesterday from the manager of Parker's Tin Sluicing Company, about eight miles distant fram Tingha, stated that after a week's run, the clean-up…

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Every Colliery Idle. Yorkshire Strike. London

The Sun · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 11

Every colliery in Yorkshire is now idle, and altogether 170,000 miners are on strike. The stacks of coal at the pit heads are sufficient to last a week, at the end of which…

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Great Discovery of Coal

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 4

Great excitement has been caused at Quirindi on the slopes of New England, by the reported discovery at Breeza of an immense seam of coal…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 14

Once, all roads led to Rome. In Australian mining nowadays it is apparently the rule that most roads lead Malay-wards. In the circular letter, dated April 2, which the board has…

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Financial. World's Gold Output

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 13

We have now available a preliminary estimale of the world's gold production. The estimate for the year, based in most cases on actual returns for 11 months of the year,…

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Gold Exported From Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 4

Exports of coined and uncoined gold from the port of Sydney for which export entries have been received during the week ended 31st March, 1914:…

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