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Mining & the mines, 1918

3,145 stories in Sydney's papers · page 81 of 158

Newcastle Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The quantity of coal experted from Newcastle to other States during the month of May was 217,056 tons, as follows: Victoria, 108,366; South Australia, 86,700;…

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Coal Under the Sea

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 10

The whitchaven coal-mine, in which a terrible disaster occurred six years ago, runs out under the Irish Sea for close upon three miles, and…

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South Coast Mines. Helensburgh

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 14

Full time has been worked by colliery employees for the past fortnight…

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Mining Shares. Fall in Tin

Evening News · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 3

Hills [?] began the morning on [?] better and closed easier, and (terms) [?] 3d down British (old) were [?] and 3d dearer (terms) [?]…

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South Coast Mines. Outlook Not Cheerful. WOLLONGONG

Evening News · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 4

The outlook in the southern coal mining industry is not altogether cheerful. Apart from the cleavage in the ranks over the levy question, trade has been very patchy during the…

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Wonthaggi Miners form Local of W.I.I.U.

The International Socialist · Saturday 1 June 1918 · page 1

On Sunday, F. W. Dawson met and discussed the question of launching a Local of the Workers' International Industrial Union, with a group of militant…

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Mining Notes and News

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1918 · page 10

A fairly heavy volume of business has been reported in the mining section during the past week. The market weak-ened appreciably on receipt of early…

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Mining Quotations LONDON, Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1918 · page 1

Australian mining stocks were quoted on the Stock Exchange yesterday as follows:—British Broken Hill, b 49/, s 50/; Broken Hill, b 71/3, s 72/6; Briseis, b…

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Share Market Controlled by War News Heavy Mining Business Strong Rise in War Loan

The Sun · Sunday 2 June 1918 · page 4

The Sydney market £or mining scrip was lively yesterday, and extensive dealings, chiefly among the jobbers, wore negotiated in silver-lead, both on and after calf. The…

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State Parliament to Meet Wednesday Bills to Encourage Recruiting and Mining, and to Improve Local Government

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1918 · page 1

The State session will open next Wednesday week, the Governor, Sir Walter Davidson, performing the opening ceremony…

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Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1918 · page 7

A steady week-end market prevailed for mining shares on the Stock Exchange on Saturday Barriers claimed the greater share of attention, and, though initially higher,…

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Mining Yields. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1918 · page 7

The following minig yields are renorted:—Lansell Propy., 678 tons 146[?]z: South New Moon, 320 tons, 7[?]z; do, concentrates, 67oz; Duke and Main Lead Conso[?]s (fortnight) 171oz (two shifts short): E[?]na…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 6

The Kitchener Molybdenite Mine, situated at Khartoum, near Alma-Den, on the Caims-Chillagce railway, is said to possess the largest known molybdenite lode formation. Returns show that while development work…

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Coal Mining Dispute. Maryborough (Q.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 9

An industrial dispute has occurred at the Howard Coal Mines, and as a result the mines were idle yesterday. It is understood the management decided to dispense with the…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 9

Owing to a good fall of rain, totalling 589 points for the fortnight ended May 25, Pioneer Tin-mining Company's No. 1 elcctric plant resumed sluicing on May 20…

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The Coal Board. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 8

Judge Edmunds, sitting as the Coal Board, resumed consideration of industrial matters connected with mining. Mr. Gledson, M.L.A., stated that the miners…

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Arbitration Act. Position of Miners. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 6

Mr. Beeby, Minister for Labour and Industry, met with a good reception during his address on the Arbitration Act as it affects the coal-mining industry to the Western…

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Mining Shares. Fall in Tin

Evening News · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 5

Tin is quoted is London at [?] a crop of [?]. The Cathurst Victory M. Company, N.L. has been [?] to the [?]…

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Miners' New Union. Position on South Coast. WOLLONGONG

Evening News · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 6

The membership of the separate union, comprised of employees who have refused to pay the levy for the support of afflaged victimised men, and whose ordinary contribution have therefore been refused…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade. Deputation to the Minister for the Navy

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 4 June 1918 · page 7

As the outcome of a deputation which waited on Mr. Poynton, the Acting-Minister for the Navy, at Melbourne last week, the Federal Cabinet is…

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