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Mining & the mines, 1916

4,482 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 225

Mount Oxide Mines Going Through the Books Accountant's Evidence

The Sun · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 7

The Mount Oxide Mines, Ltd., suit in Equity before Mr. Justice Harvey, was continued today. Siegfried William Griffith, of the Arm of…

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Mount Oxide Mines. an Accountant's Evidence. More About the £20,000

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The hearing [?] morning in the Equity Court of the [?] in which the plaintiff company Mount Oxide Mines Limited [?] or the amount of loss…

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Mining. Big Rise in Coppes. American Manipulators. Share Market Healthy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 11

There was every justification for the cheery appearance of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, and for the fact that the business done up to the luncheon adjournment, both…

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London Markets Bank of England Returns Gold Accumulations Larger London, Thursday Night

The Sun · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

The weekly returns of the Bank of England show that the reserves in notes and gold amount to £11,516,411, as compared with £40,665,925 last week…

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Chaos at Zeebrugge Desolation from the Sky Big Fleet of British' Planes Engaged. Mine-layers Damaged

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 1

The enemy's said upon the Kentish coast on Sunday was quickly avenged Early on Monday morning fifty British French and Belgian aeroplanes and…

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Gold Miners Idle Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 5

No tenders having been received by the miners for contract work, all the mines on the Ararat field closed down to-day. Three hundred miners have been thrown out of…

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South Coast Miners. Miners on Strike at Scarborough

Direct Action · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

"Bent Axle" writes under date, 15/3 16:— The wheels of industry have not been turned here since the 13th inst., owing to…

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Coal Export Embargo

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--At a meeting of the council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce to-day, the embargo on the export of coal was again discussed, and the opinion was expressed…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 19

The Edna May Consolidated Gold Mining Company, N.L., has been placed on the official list of the Sydney Stock Exchange. Its authorised capital is £32,500, in 65,000 shares of 10/…

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Cobar Miners. General Cessation Threatened

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 10

COBAR, Friday.--The industrial position locally is very uncertain. The Federated Mine Employees' Union has served a notice on all mines in the district that unless the demand…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 12

In connection with the approaching Castor holidays, the Sydney Stock Echange will be Closed at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, and will re-open on the morning of Thursday…

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South Coast Mines. Clifton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 19

After being idle for a week the south [?] ton and South Clifton new tunnel resumed work on Wednesday, the men returning to work pending a confrence Coal Sea Cliff…

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Mount Oxide Mines. Suit in Equity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 18

In the Equity Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Harvey, the heaving was continued of the suit in which the Mount Oxide Mines, Ltd., claimed £25,000 from four directors of the…

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Cobar Mines. General Strike Feared. Cobar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 18

The industrial position here is very unsettled. The Federated Mine Employees' Union has served a notice on all mines in the district that unless the demand for…

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Mining. Prices Current on 'Change

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 12

"The biggest day's business since the outbreak of the war!" That remark summed up operations on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon. At the same time, it was…

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Artillery at the Meuse Mine Exploded London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 1

A Paris official message, issued this afternoon, says:-- "In the Bois le Malancourt, near Hill 285, we exploded a mine and occupied the crater…

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Big Profit in Gold 25,500,000 Paid in 20 Years in W.a. Great Gold Output

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 17

More than once gold has come to the rescue of Australia when things were as nearly at the worst as was possible, without the point being reached. There is nothing to say that it will…

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Coal Trade Restrictions. Vessels Leave in Ballast. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 16

At to-day's meeting of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce a dis[?]sion took place on the embarge upon the export of coal to foreign ountries. The opinion wasxpresned thnt It…

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Fated to Lose. German Ambition Baulked. Mr. Hughes to Welsh Miners

Evening News · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 8

Mr. Hughes, addressing a meeting of the [?]rion Society at Carding, Said:—German [?] by the help of God and the [?] of [?] is not fated to su[?]ed. The…

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Financial. Fighting with Gold. a Powerful Weapon. Paralysis Through Absence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 19

The war against Germany and her Allies is not being fought with high explosives and bayoncts only. That is but one method of offence, of which there are several. The…

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