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Mining & the mines, 1919

4,299 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 215

Coal Lumpers' Premises Statement and Denial What Was the Dedication?

The Sun · Saturday 5 April 1919 · page 6

Mr. W. O'Connor, secretary of the Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union, writes:-- In your issue of Friday there appears a statement from the Department of…

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Struck a Mine Italian Transport 5 Men Killed; 100 Injured Vancouver, April 4

The Sun · Saturday 5 April 1919 · page 1

The Italian transport Umbria, with 2000 men on board, while voyaging from Venice to Tripoli struck a mine…

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Coal Agreement Reached by Men and the Mine Owners Melbourne

The Mirror · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 2

Colliery owners and miners' delegates who have been conferring in Melbourne left this afternoon. They would say nothing, pleading instructions from Mr…

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Work at the Collieries NEWCASTLE

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 2

The following is a list of the workings at the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts during the past fortnight: Aberdare, Central, Cessnock,…

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Mining

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 9

The values of mining stocks continue depressed. A fair amount of business is passing, but much is of a purely professional character…

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Desert Gold

The Mirror · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 6

A special supplement to The Referee of May 7 will be a fine picture of the great mare, Desert Gold. This is suitable for framing, and should be given a…

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Italian Transport Struck by Mine Vancouver

The Mirror · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 1

The Italian transport Umbria struck a mine. Many were killed and a hundred wounded…

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"His Word Against Mine" a Scene in Court PERTH

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 2

Lieutenant Leslie Tweedle sued Mrs. Daisy Hope for the sum of £70/10/, military allotment money, said to have been collected on his behalf by defendant…

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Coal Dispute Work for Tribunal Officers Know Nothing Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 2

News from Melbourne that an understanding has been reached by the conference of colliery proprietors and employees' delegates respecting the…

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Dearer Coal After Settlement General Increase in Hewing Rate of Betweeen 15 and 20 Per Cent. MELBOURNE

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 April 1919 · page 1

The colliery owners and men's delegates, who have been attending the coal conference here, returned to Sydney this afternoon. All maintained a very close…

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Mining. in and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 6

For the month ended April 2, the Tyrconncil Gold Mines' battery crushed 210 tons for a return of 225oz of gold. No. 1 dredge of the Arajuen Redbank Gold Dredging…

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Collieries' Conference Federation to Meet

The Sun · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 2

Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, who yesterday returned from Melbourne, stated to-day…

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Coal Delegates Return

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Most of the delegates who have been attending tho Coal Conference convened by tho Acting-Prime Minister Returned to Sydney to-day…

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Transport Strikes a Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 7

It is reported from Paris that the Italian transport Umbria struck a mine. Many on board were killed, and 100 injured…

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Miners' Strike London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 1

One hundred thousand miners in South Wales and Nottingham are unofficially reported, to have struck, as a protest against the non-conceding of…

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Chrome Iron Mine. Capetown

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 5

A Buluwaya message stales that a company with large capital has been formed. In which British steel corporations are interested. The company has been formed to work a huge…

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Coal-lumpers' Dispute. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 8

Three interstate collers—the Age, Alabama, and Saros—are still affected by the decision on Friday of the coal-lumpers engaged in unloading them to [?] work on…

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Mining News. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 9

The following mining [?] are reported:— New Red, White, and [?] 340 tons, [?] Duke Extended (fortnight), [?]: [?] Gaffney's Greek, 1000 tons. 345[?] (smelted gold,…

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World's Largest Chrome Mine. Capetown, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 April 1919 · page 7

A Bulawayo message states that a company with large capital[?] In which British steel corporations are interested, has been formed to work a huge deposit of chrome iron ore in…

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