Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

3,666 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 184

America Receives Gold New York

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 1

The sub-Treasury has received sis million dollars in gold coin from Canada…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 3

The dredges at Tongkah Harbour worked 1879 hours during February, treating 200,000 cubic yards, for a yield of 73 tons. The dredges stopped for…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Coal and Coke for Tchio

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 4

Laden with 1000 tons of chronic ore, the. French steamer Saint Louis arrived in Sydney yesterday morning from paagoumene (N.C.), and went to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Queensland Gold Yield. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 12

Official returns of the Department of Mines show that the gold yield of Queensland for the month of February was 7175 fine oz, worth £30,478, compared with 10,151 oz, valued at…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Gold Backing for Extrinsic Money

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 8

Last week we adversely criticised an attempt to trace relationship between the gold backing of a nation's notes and the rate of exchange for the transmission of that nation's money to other countries. We pointed out certain errors in the presentation of the facts,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 12

Notwithstanding further declines in metal prices, the market for mining scrip was generally [?]rm yesterday. Broken Hill stocks displayed a much stronger movement. The…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Washing His Back Miners' Problem Removal of 'Honest Dirt'

The Sun · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 5

How does the coal miner wash 1-is back? This problem was discussed before the Coal Commission this morning…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Coal Industry.' Systems of Control. Professor Irvine Examined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 10

The inquiry by the Royal Commission, with Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C., as chairman, into the miners' conditions, was continued yesterday…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Mechanical Coal-handling Plant. New Method of Eunkering Steamers

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 4

A new floating mechanical coal-handling plant has been installed on the hulk Fortuna by the Wallarah Coal Co., Ltd. Mechanical equipment for…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Baths at Mines Would Workers Use Them? Superintendent Says "No"

Evening News · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 1

Would real miners on the South Coast take advantage of claborate bathing facilities if provided by the mining companies. This…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

"Spurious Propaganda" Men Who Make Hell Troubles of Coal Owners

Evening News · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 1

"There are certain men we know, never mind where they go, who make a hell of a place. Their object is not to…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Export Manifests New South Wales. 1920. TERNATE, s. For Batavia. Hailed Newcastle Mar. 7, 1920. Scottish Australian Mining Co., agents. BATAVIA

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 2

Scottish Australian Mining Co., 7500 tons coal STANLEY HALL, s. For Durban, via ports…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Co-operation Failed How Coal Miners Acted

Evening News · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 6

Discussing the possibility of co-opreative working of coal miner before the Coal Commission to-day a witness told the story of his…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Coal Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 5

The Coal Commission will sit at 10 o'clock in the Public Works Committee room, Parliament House…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 3

A dividend of 10 per cent., and a bonus of 5 per cent, has been declared by the North Taiping Co., payable on the first of April. The…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining Shares

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 3

Transactions in Mining Scrip were fairly active upon the local Exchange yesterday. . Barriers were again firmer. British…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Latest Mining Quotations

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 3

The closing quotations for mining shares upon the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, were as follows:— Copper.—C.S.A., paid, s 18/6;…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Welsh Miners. Demand for Higher Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 7

The Welsh miners' conference at Cardiff decied to demand an immediate increase of [?] weekly, to meet the cost of living. The conference also resolved to support the proposal…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Dereks Tin Mines. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 8

Dereks Tin Mines, Ltd., has been formed with a capital of £100,000, to acquire a group of mines at Stannary Hills, Herberton, Queensland. There are 45,000 shares being…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Derek Tin Mines, Ltd. London

Evening News · Thursday 11 March 1920 · page 1

The Derek Tin Mines, Limited, which has been formed with a capital of £100,000 to acquire a group of tin mines at Stanuary Hills, Herberton,…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →