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Mining & the mines, 1915

4,404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 221

Gold, Tin, and Platinum. Won From Sea Beach

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 9

Having expended about £7000 in the erection of a plant at Black Head Beach, on the North Coast. for the purpose of extracting the mineral contents of the sea sand,…

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Coal Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 15

The exports of coal for the week ended yesterday reached 77,503 tons, as compared with £137,792 tons for the corresponding period of last year. In the Easter week of last…

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Carpathia Tin Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 15

The mine manager reports for last week as follows:—"No. 1 shaft, 104½ft level: North winze, sinking 8ft, total 37ft, on ore of seconds values over the whole winze, intermixed in which is an occasional…

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Dardanelles. Mine Sweeping

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 9

TENEDOS, Friday. -- The Allied warships continue an Intermittent bombardment of the Dardanelles in order to protect the mine sweepers, and prevent the Turks from…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 15

Our Lithgow correspondent telegraphs:—"A mining roport from Wiseman's Creek states that operations at the Breakfast Creek mine will start in a few days, as the rainfall has…

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Modern Colliery Plant. Electric Power at Mount Pleasant

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 14

An Indication of the rapid strides made in the direction of harnessing electricity to coalmining purposes is furnished in the case of the Mount Pleasant Colliery on the south coast…

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Price of Coal. Exports to Neutrals

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- The Board of Trade committee reports that owing to the high price of domestic coal, exports to neutral countries ought to be restricted…

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Iodide Silver Mines. Work to Be Resumed

The Sun · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 6

The directors of the Iodide (Mineral Hill) Silver Mining Company announce that they have decided that operations at the company's mine are to be resumed, the…

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Coal in Britain. High Prices. London, April 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 13

The Board of Trade Committee reports that owing to the high price of domestic coal, exports to neutral countries ought to be restricted. If prices are not shortly…

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Mine Employees' Ballots

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 2

The New South Wales branch of the Federated Mine Employees' Association of Australia has elected the following officers:—President, Mr. W. D. Wearmouth (unopposed)…

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Hard Times for Metalliferous Miners

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 2

It is asserted by Mr. C. H. Davis, secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Federated Mine Employees' Association, that industrial law and usage with regard to metalliferous…

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Mining Stocks Reasonless Fluctuations

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 4

The mining market was comparatively quiet, although in a number of instances there were somewhat severe; fluctuations for no apparent reason. At one stage Broken Hill stocks…

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Iodide Silver Mines. Work to Be Resumed

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 9

The directors of the Iodide (Mineral Hill) Silver Mining Company announce that they have decided that operations at the company's mine are to be resumed, the…

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Finance— Mining— Produce Markets Investment Market Satisfactory Business

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 4

For—the three days during which the Stock Exchange was opened last week, a very satisfactory business was done in investment stocks, but the fluctuation in prices was not vary…

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New Arabian Nights 2000 British Asses with Gold for the Kaiser

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 1

The wildest efforts at romancing by the Wolff Bureau of Berlin have been far outdistanced by the Turkish newspapers published in Asia Minor, which receive most of their…

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Mining Romances. Collection of Specimens. How Two Millions Were Lost

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 23

The collection of mineral specimens of Australia in the possession of Mr. N. Borchardt, of Sydney, is one of the best in Australia. It is arranged in show cases and…

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Fire at a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 8

ZEEHAN (TAS.), Sunday.—On Good Friday night an outbreak of fire occurred in the Lyell Blocks mine air–compressing plant at Linda Valley. The engine–room ; was razed to the,…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 9

The secretary of the Hampden Cloncurry Copper Mines, Limited, reports the redemption of £20,000 debentures, leaving a balance of £20,000 now issued. These are due for…

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Hampden Copper Mine. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 9

The smelting returns of the Hampden Cloncurry copper mine for March show that 5281 tons of ore were treated, and produced 622 tons of blister copper, containing 616 tons of…

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Trades and Labour. Metalliferous Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1915 · page 5

Members of the New South Wales branch of the Federated Mine Employees' Association of Australia have answered the following questions:—"Are you in favour of dispensing…

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