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Mining & the mines, 1916

4,482 stories in Sydney's papers · page 86 of 225

Present Day Warfare Illustrated in Soldiers' Training. Comes and Mines

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 3

Trench warfare is so much a part of military operations that it has now become a regular feature of the soldiers training. In a portion of Moore Park…

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Diamonds in North Sea. Sailors Story of Strange Find While Mine-sweeping

Evening News · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 4

A strange story of diamonds being found [?]octing in the North Sea, when two deck hands belonging to H.M. [?]yawler Hero, Walter…

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Mining. Market Featureless. No Speculative Energy. All Sections Affected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 11

The Sydney Stock Exchange opened yesterday with a total lack of energy. It was suffering from "Mondayltis," a complaint, so christened because it mostly makes its…

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C.S.A. Mines

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 47

A summary has been issued by the Chief Inspector of Mines (Mr. J. B. Jaquet) of a report by Mr. J. R. Godfrey on the C.S.A. group of mines near Cobar. The report was prepared…

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Dodging Mines and Submarines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 9

The voyage of the R.M.S. Romuera from London to Hobart (she called at the latter port on Saturday last) was attended with considerable risk, and anxious times were…

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Gold-bearing Stone

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 47

Some time ago a vein of gold-bearing stone was discovered a short distance from Orange, and some experts hold it to be a continuation of the great Lucknow. The find is on Kerr…

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Old Gold Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 16

The head recciving depot of the Old Gold and Silver War Fund, City Mutual-chambers, 62 Hunter-street, is open for the inspection and sale of gifts every weekday between 10 o'clock and 4 o'clock, and weekly sales…

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Goal Mines Eight-Hours Bill

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 47

The new Eight-hours Bill is arousing discussion in the Wollongong district and a special delegate board meeting of representatives from the various miners' lodges was held on May 11…

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Tin Mining Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 15

Bourke's Hill Tin-sluicing (Emmaville), May 12.— No. 2 plant: Ran down boxes, expect, good yield. Resumed sluicing over-burden and operating just on edge o, Preston's workings, pro[?]p[?]cis improved; [?]…

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South Coast Mines. a Busy Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 14

The report of the Mines Department shows that the output from the South Coast mines for the year was 2,201,398 tons, being a reduction of only 101,343 tons, compared with…

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Labor. a Mine Idle. the Unionists Reason

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 10

BULLI, Tuesday.--The men at Old Bulli mine refused to work, and returned home this morning, because the of their number had refused to pay some union rates that the…

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MINING. Operations at Mount Lyell

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 47

The general manager of the Mount Lyell Company advises that, as the result of inquiries in America, he is Satisfied that electrolysis is applicable to treatment of these ores. This…

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Instructing Our Soldiers in Trench Warfare: Bombs and Mines

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 10

Ready for an Enemy Attack. Bombing an Enemy Trench. In a portion of Moore Park which at one time formed part of the old Rifle Range has been dug a series of trenches, which are a fac-simile of certain Anzac trenches in Gallipoli. The work of making them has been carried out by the Engineers' Officers' Training School, now in the Engineers' Depot, Moore Park. The trenches were utilised on Wednesday last to demonstrate from start to finish the art of trench warfare…

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All Over Two Shillings. Miners Lose £100 in Wages. Dulli

Evening News · Wednesday 17 May 1916 · page 4

The Bulli Colliery, which employs about 200 men, with a capacity of turning out about 600 tons of coal a day, was idle yesterday. It appears that two miners refused to pay the usual…

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Digging for Gold. the Government's Mining Scheme

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 26

There is at present a big demand for minerals, especially metals, and this demand will undoubtedly continue for a long time, after the war has ended. The importance…

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The Miners' Battalion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 8

At the close of the noon call of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday several officers of the Australian Mining Corps entered the room. The chairman, Mr. E. L. Davis, said…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 9

The manager of the Tyrconnell Gold Mines (Q.) wires that the clean-up on Saturday last amounted to 84oz, [?]rom 152 tons of ore. For the fortnight ended May 13 the manager…

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Gold Sluicing, West Coast. Lake Hochstetter Goldfields, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 9

News has been received by the directors of the Lake Hochstetter Goldfields, Ltd., in the shape of a cable just to hand, reading:—"Holed No. 1 tunnel levels: alignment correct." It is 6ft by 5ft, and is…

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South Coast Miners. Bulli

Evening News · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 1

During the past couple of weeks the various collieries and [?]works along the South Coast have been kept constantly at work. For the [?]nightly pay due next Friday, for which the…

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Coal-lumper Assaults Wife What He Told Her

The Sun · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 3

"I'd sooner go to gaol and lot her keep herself," said Sydney Dawes, aged 54, a coal lumper, after being convicted at the Central Police Court this morning for assaulting his…

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