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Mining & the mines, 1922

3,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 172

Commercial, Investment & Mining Markets Egg Scramble Fresh, Chilled, Pickled Sussex-street Trade

Evening News · Thursday 23 March 1922 · page 3

Many Sydney and suburban grocers were unable this morning to secure more then half the quantity of suburban eggs ordered. It is surprising that the shops…

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Miners' Pay Reduction Resented Selling Price of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 7

The Mining Department of the Australasian Workers' Union is angry because of a statement attributed to a firm' of Sydney sharebrokers in the…

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Price of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

The Gold Producers' Association reports the price of line gold in London as £4 14s 9d an oz. This month's opening quotation was £4 13s 6d and the movement between that and…

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Mine Inspector Injured Greta

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 3

Aid. S. Harris, night deputy at the Whithurn collery, was seriously injured while on his round of inspection this morning, through a quantity of atone and coal falling upon him…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

Mr. A. Markell presided at yesterday's meting of shareholders in the Carpathia Tin Mining Company, held in Sydney. Moving the adoption of the directors' report and…

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New Coal Seam Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 7

What is described as a valuable coal discovery has been made on the Bowen coalfields railway line. A gang drilling holes for railway purposes…

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Cost of Production Wallaroo Copper Mines

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 7

The directors of the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company in a statement [?] the operations for the six months ended December [?]…

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Speedy Piecework [?] Coal-bucket That Slipped

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

[?] lumpers were [?] the [?] Main at Mortlake on March 10, [?] containing 15cwt of coal [?] the crane book about 16 feet,…

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Coal Seam. Important Find. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 10

What is described as a valuable coal discovery has been made on Bowen coalfields railway line. A gang drilling holes for railway purposes encountered a 6ft seam of clean…

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Greed of Gold Limbless Diggers' Views

The Sun · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 7

At the last general meeting of the Limbless and Maimed Soldiers' Association the war-battered soldiers expressed their feelings at the desire of…

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Decline in Gold Yield Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

The threat to the gold-mining industry of Australia by the great decline in the premium on gold overseas, in conjunction with the stationary high wages and costs of materials was stressed by Mr. E. O. Dyson,…

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Price of Coal. Wage Reduction. Conference Arranged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 8

The New South Wales Coalowners recently wrote to the Miners' Federation suggesting that a conference should be held between the parties, to consider the question of a…

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Coal Trade. Oversea Competitors Underquote. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

A half-yearly dividend of 4 per cent. on proferenee capital and 6 per cent. on ordinary capital of the Caledonian Colliery, Limited, was declared at the general meeting of…

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Merely a Million Idle Mines Waiting BRISBANE

The Sun · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 6

A Cloncurry resident at present in Brisbane states that there is not now a mine of any importance open in his district…

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Carpathia Tin-mining Company, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 12

At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Carpathia Tin-mining Company, N.L., the acting-chairman, Mr. A. Markell, who presided in the absence of the chairman, Mr. W. Clarke, referred to a further…

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New Burragorang Silver-mining Co., N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 12

The directors of New Burragorang Silver-mining Company, N.L., have accepted provisionally a tender for the purchase of the uhole of the leases, plant, machinery, and other assets of the company for the sum of…

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Mining Shares. Barriers Weaker. Hill End Stocks Firm

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 4

A moderate volume of business was listed in mining shares. Silver-leads remained out of favour, and quotations were weaker. Souths receded 5d…

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Commercial, Investment & Mining Markets Dates Weaker Onions Sold-out Sussex-street Trade

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 5

This market is bare of onions pending arrival of the [?]. The price is nominal at [?] a ton. A sudden drop is noted to white cats from Tasmania…

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FINANCIAL Labor's Taxation Squeeze-- German Mark, at 1350 to the £1-- Electric Corporation's Call -- Increase in Savings- Price of Gold--C.S. Co operative Society's Accounts-- Greater J. D. Williams's Balance Sheet. Labor's Taxation Squeeze

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1922 · page 9

Last year the Labor Government of New South Wales squeezed out of the taxpayers of Die Slate the equivalent of £3 10s 9d per head If population. That represented an increase…

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Cheap Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1922 · page 10

Since gold has practically ceased to he used for currency its value has fluctuated like that of an ordinary commodity. And lately the trend has been in the same…

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