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Mining & the mines, 1918

3,145 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 158

Coal for Victoria. Working New South Wales Collieries. a Permanent Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. Downward, Minister for Mines in Victoria, returned to Sydney on Saturday from a visit to Richmond Main and Pelaw Main collieries, which are being worked by the…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 9

The Kamuntlng drodge worked 626 boura during the month of December and treated 88,000 cubic yards of ground for a return of 681 tons of tin oxide. The average recovery…

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Five Years' Contract. Trouble Amongst Colliery Proprietors. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4

It is reported that a contract has been made between the Victorian Government and Messrs. J. and A. Brow[?] for the supply of 1,000,000 tons of coal per annum for five…

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Interstate Gold Yield. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 8

Birthday Tunnel, 155[?] including general clean-up from plates and about battery, and 60oz from 90 tons; Edna May (month), 2011 tons, 1366oz; ditto (cyanide), £1729; Edna…

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Old Gold and Silver Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 8

The committee of the Old Gold and Silver War Fund, City Mutual Chambers, 63 Hunter Street, ask all who are willing to make a New Year's- gift- of a piece of old Jewellery, or…

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Scarborough Mine Idle. Eight Wheelers Dismissed. Wollongong

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 5

The [?] of the wheelers to wheel off five met instead of four as he[?] to still unsettled, and there is a possibility of it spreading. When the…

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Mining Shares Good Volume of Business

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 3

There was satisfactory business in mining shares. The market in most operations showed advances. In silver lines Junction Norths were 10 12 d…

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State Mines. Agreement with Victoria. 1,000,000 Tons a Year for Five Years

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1918 · page 4

An agreement between the New South Wales and Victorian Governments will. if the anticipations, of the Ministers concerned prove correct, shortly be come to that will' mean the…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 7

Business was fairly brisk on tho mining section of tho Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Usually half-hearted efforts are common restarting operations after tho holidays, but…

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N.S.W. Coal-mines Victoria Guaranteed Full Supplies Proposed Nationalisation

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 4

Tho Victorian Minister for Mines (Mr. Downward) and the Minister in charge of the N.S.W. State-Controlled collieries (Mr.Grahamc), have been in conference…

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Germany and Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 5

In connection with recent efforts to put to commercial use the deposits of brown coal in S. Australia, the work of Germany in the development of the…

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Alleged Profiteering in Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 6

Important Prosecution at Liverpool. The first prosecution in the United Kingdom for alleged offences against the Price of Coal Limitation Act, 1915,…

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North Lyell Mine. Queenstown (Tas.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 9

At the North Lyell Mine the output of ore is steadily regaining the normal tonnage. Very rich ore continuos to be won from No. 49 stope, at the 1100 feet level, and at 1000ft…

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Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 9

At the end of December, according to the official figures, 7293 men were employed on the Broken Hill mines, viz., 4083 surface, and 3210 underground. Those included:…

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Mining. Stock Exchange Reopens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 9

The Stock Exchanges of Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney reopened yesterday, and, as might have been expected, business was on the quiet side. The general policy seemed…

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Biplane and Desert Gold Wellington

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 5

Mr. Greenwood intends that the champion three-year-old Biplane shall return to Melbourne in order to take part in the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting…

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Government Pledges. Breach of Faith Alleged. Coal Inquiry Suggested

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 4

"I have further Interviewed Mr. Downward, the Victorian Minister for Mines," said the secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (Mr. Willis) yesterday…

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Coal for Victoria. the Five-years' Contract. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 6

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, speaking to-day on the arrangement made between the Victorian Government and Messrs. J. and A…

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