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Mining & the mines, 1915

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Gold Medals for Glydesdales. At the Sydney Royal Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 6

The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, Sydney, has received a communication from the Clydesdale Society of Great Britain and Ireland stating that…

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Mines and Minerals Our Disturbed Markets Increased Cold Yield for N.S.W.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 3

The usual return furnished by the Under-Secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for New SOuth Wales for the month of January is…

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Mining. Buoyan Values. Barriers in Good Request. Copper Holding Solidly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1915 · page 9

An extremely lively market was experienced yesterday morning. It was lively not only as regarded the amount of business transacted, but was extremely buoyant as…

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New Coal-cutter

The World's News · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 2

REVOLUTIONARY changes in coal-mining methods are promised upon the general introduction of a coal-mining machine developed by Mr. H. A. Kuhn, a Pittsburg…

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Balmain Colliery. Will It Close Down?

The Sun · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 3

Miners employed at the Sydney Harbor Colleries Mine, at Balmain. have received a fortnight's notice of dismissal, which terminates on Friday next. There are about…

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Coal Shipments From Japan

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 4

The Japanese Government has modified the restrictions put on exportations of coal to the Philippine Islands during the continuance of the European…

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Coal Exports. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 15

The coal exports this week reached 114,254 tons, and were not only the highest this year, but also eclipsed the exports for the corresponding period of last year and the…

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West Australian Mines. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 17

On Thursday an application by F.C. Cowle, on behalf of the [?]ectors of the Chaffer's Co., Ltd., for a six months' exemption on their amalgamated leases, was before the acting…

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A Mining Centre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 11

Many towns are hard hit through this terrible war, more especially those towns whose chief industry is mining; Yet Cessnock, whose dependence is in the coal mines of the…

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Coal Trade. in the South

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 19

WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- The pay this week at the Mount Keira colliery is for eight days, Mount Kembla 8, Corrimal 8¼, and South Bulli 7. There are indications of a falling off in the…

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Newcastle Cranes. the Winter Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 11

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- About two years ago the Government announced that six now cranes had been ordered for the wharf on the western aide of the basin. The general belief was that…

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The Coal Strike and the War

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 10

At the last meeting of the Socialist I.W.W. the secretary was directed to forward to Labor Ministers and to the secretary of the Parliamentary Labor party copies of the following…

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Mining. Prices Current on 'Change

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 12

Prices were firm yesterday on the mining section of the Sydney Stock Exchange, but a dull market ruled right up to the close. Not a single Harriot stock was dealt in until after the…

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Mining. Restricted Speculation. Tin Values Solid. Buyers Have to Spring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1915 · page 17

Though yesterday morning's proceedings at the Sydney Stock Exchange were confined to a smaller number of stocks than usual; also that very few transactions were recorded,…

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For the Mine-sweepers

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1915 · page 10

The appeal made by Miss Mary Jay a few weeks ago for socks for the mine-sweepers at work round the British coasts met with a splendid response. Miss Jay reports that she is…

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The Gold Superstition

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1915 · page 15

The Government has made a law that all debts are payable in gold; but it has not provided a stock of gold which the people can purchase for that purpose. It cannot…

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Mines in the Skager Rack

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1915 · page 2

It is a mistake to suppose that there are two ways by which the German Fleet can gain access to the North Sea—by the Kiel Canal or the Skager Rack. The only passage for…

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Prices Higher in Mining Market

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 February 1915 · page 4

There has been quite an active market for mining chances on the Sydney Stock Exchange during the past week. Barrier stocks have had several fluctuations, but on the whole…

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Northern Collieries

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 February 1915 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Work at the collieries during the fortnight ended on Saturday was brisk, the average time being a fraction under ten days. Nineteen mines worked full…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1915 · page 11

The manager of the Per[?]tty mines, reporting on February 6, stales:—"Fired one kiln 60 tons, and built [?]0-ton kiln. No. 1 plant cleaned up launders for one and a half…

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