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Mining & the mines, 1919

4,299 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 215

N.s.w. Gold. Slight Increase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 6

The Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. R. H. Cambage, reports that the gold yield for New South Wales for the month of December was 93330Z crude, equal to 9030oz fine, valued…

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Reported Gold Find at the Bulga

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 4

It is reported that good alluvial gold has been found at the Bulga, about 23 miles from Wingham. The latest report is that John…

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No Bounty on Gold. Cabinet View Unchanged

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

Upon his return to Melbourne from Sydney on Monday the Acting Prime Minister made it clear that the proposal that gold-mining should be…

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Workers' Demands. Ambitious Proposals. Miners and Railwaymen. London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph" states that the industrial controversy is reopening acutely. The railway men to-day will discuss means to achieve their national programme, demanding…

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Russia's Gold Reserve. a Problem for the Future

The Australian Worker · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 20

Despatches regarding the action in respect to the Russian Government's gold reserve by the Bolshevik Government first and the anti-Bolshevik Government…

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Mining in Mexico British Bank's Venture New York, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 1

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The Diminishing Value of Gold. Socialist Economics Alone Can Give the True Cause

The Australian Worker · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 20

Few people care much about political economy except workingmen, and especially Socialists. There are certain social phenomena that the average business man…

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State's Gold Yield. Once £2,660,946, Now £369,743. Last Year's Result

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 9 January 1919 · page 3

A Mines Department return shows that the sold yield of the State for December was 9,333 ounces of crude, sold, equal to 9,030 ounces of fine gold,…

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Mining Disasters Fifty Men Entombed in a Coal-mine in Kansas. the Workings on Fire

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 4

Fifty men were trapped in a shaft at Hamilton coal mine (Cherokee, Kansas), on Wednesday morning owing" to an explosion of gas. The a…

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Mineral Wealth Gold-producers' Interstate Conference in Victoria. Improving Mining Conditions

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 3

An Australian gold-producers' conference, convened by the Victorian Chamber of Mines, for the purpose of advocating a definite policy for…

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Industrial Unrest a Hand-to-hand Fight at a N.s.w. Coal Mine. Loyalists and Unionists

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

The differences between loyalist workers and unionists at Richmond-Main coal-mine, in the Kurri Kurri (N.S.W.) district, led to a serious…

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Mexican Mines. New York

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 5

The correspondent of the "New York Times" at Mexico City states that a British Bank will be established there specialising in loans on mining property and the purchase of partly…

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Mine-sweepers. Crews Dissatisfied. London, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 7

Discontent among the crews of the minesweepers reached a climax on Friday, when some refused to put to sea, declaring that the remuneration was utterly inadequate in…

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A Fighting Dog with Gold-filled Teeth

The Mirror · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 4

From Oklahoma City (U.S.A.) comes the story of a pit bull terrier equipped with gold teeth. As is known, the pit bull terrier is the breed, if it may so be…

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Mr. T. H. Lowry's Australian Trip Discusses Performances of Desert Gold, Finmark, Estland and Co

Arrow · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 1

Mr. T. H. Lowry, who has returned to New Zealand, in a chat with Whalebone, of the Auckland Star, said that the trip had been a somewhat…

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[?]Bil Gold Mines

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 2

s[?] of the [?]roosnall gold [?] for the period from [?] the [?]…

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The Coal Industry. Claims of Miners. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 12

The treasurer of the Colliery Employees' Federation (Mr. Amram Lewis) has issued a reply to a letter from the Colliery [?] ors' Association published in yesterday's…

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