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Mining & the mines, 1915

4,404 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 221

Mining. Pair Buseness at Steady Values

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 April 1915 · page 11

Bearing in mind the upward tendency of stocks during the last few days, sellers had no cause to complain of the tone of the market yesterday. It was consistent with the…

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Exports of Gold

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 4

Return showing the exports of gold (coined and uncoined) from the port of Sydney, for which export entries have been received during the week…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 11

Mr. E. V. Nixon, of Melbourne, manager of the Misima Gold Mines, late New Guinea Options Sydicate, reports that the eapplications for the contributing shares in the new…

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Miners Threaten Trouble. London

Evening News · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 1

The Monmouthshire valleys district of the South Wales Miners' Federation has resolved to favor a national stoppage of mines on April 22 if a bonus of 20 per cent. 13 not granted…

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Late News. Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 8

Our Melbourne correspondent wired last night that a report from Zeehan stated that the are body on the ground floor of No. 41 stope, 1100ft. level, of the North Mount Lyell mine was…

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Another Comfort Fund. Tobacco for Mine–sweepers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 11

One of the most precarious occupations in naval warfare is that of mine–sweeping. Some hundreds of men are now out in the North Sea collecting the explosives which the Germans…

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Welsh Miners. Gavour Strike. London, April 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 9

The Monmouthshire valleys district of the South Wales Miners' Federation has resolved to favour a national stoppage of mines on April 22 if a bonus of 20 per cent…

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Low Grade Ores. the C.s.a. Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 5

Representatives of the Cobar Railway League interviewed Mr. Cann (Minister for Works) yesterday, to urge the construction of a railway from Cobar to the C.S.A. mine…

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Miners to Strike. Want 20 Per Cent. Bonus

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.—The Monmouthshire Valleys district of the South Wales Miners' Federation has resolved in favor of a national stoppage of work in the…

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Mining. Current Prices on 'Change

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 11

Business was rather better on the mining Section of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Buyers advance in place, and, by way of compensation, here and there sellers…

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Mine Disaster in Japan. Three Hundred Min[?]ro Missing

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 4

It is feared that there has been heavy loss of life, as the result of a subsidence in a coal mine near Shimonoscki, on the south-west coast nf Japan. Three…

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Mining in the State. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 11

The Australian Oil Fields Company, of Sydney, has applied for a mining lease for the whole of the Grafton racecourse, to mine for coal, petroleum, or oil. When the bore was…

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By Sea and Land Operations in the Dardanelles Combined Attack Dy Army and Navy. Mine-sweepers at Work

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1915 · page 1

Although the recent news from the Dardanelles is of the most [?] character it must not be imagined that the Allies have abandoned the attempt that the Allies have abandoned the attempt to force a…

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Colliery Wheelers. Summonses Withdrawn

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- In the Newcastle Summons Court to-day six wheelers were proceeded against on informations charging them with, on April 9, absenting themselves from the…

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Colliery Mechanics. Wages Board Case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- At to-day's sitting of the Colliery Mechanics Wages Board (Mr. Justice Edmunds chairman) the question of applications for increases was again referred to…

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South Coast Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 13

WOLLONGONG, Friday. -- The miners' general secretary has attended at Coal Cliff, South Clifton, and South Clifton Tunnel, Keiru, and Kembla lodges, for the purpose of explaining…

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Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- As was expected owing to the slackness in the oversea trade, the export of coal to places beyond the State during the week was dull. The total quantity sent…

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Miners' Sympathy. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 18

The Miners' Delegate Board, at the quarterly meeting to-day, passed a motion extending sympathy towards the Belgians, and recommending miners' lodges in the district to do…

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For the Mine Sweepers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 13

Miss Mary Jay has just despatched to the Queen, 100 pairs of knitted socks for the mine sweepers. This is the third hundred pairs that has been forwarded since Christmas, and Miss…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 April 1915 · page 19

A 10ft extension last fortnight of No. 2 South level of the Black Range West gold mine (W.A.) failed to show any change in the face; whilst the face of No. 3 south level, 35ft…

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