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Mining & the mines, 1922

3,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 172

U.S. Coal Strike. Mineworkers' Demands. Nationalisation Urged. Washington, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 13

Appearing before the Labour Committee of the House ot Representatives, Mr. Lewis, president of the mine workers, urged that Concress should consider the nationalisation of…

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Burning Mine Disaster in Germany 16 DEAD, 383 in Peril London, April 4

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 9

A message from Berlin reports a disastrous fire in the Anselm Mine, in the Ratisbon district (Bavaria). Sixteen are dead, and 36 others have been…

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Coal Industry. Loss of Export Trade. Wales Competing. (From a Correspondent.) San Francisco, March 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 13

A big fight for supremacy in the coal trade, which has developed on the Pacific between Australia, America, and South Wales, now appears to be narrowing down…

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Magnesite Mining Suspension of Labor Conditions B.H.P. Company's Application Tamworth

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1922 · page 7

In the Warden's Court, Tamworth, before the warden, Mr. H. H. MacDongall, P.M., the Broken Hill Proprietary Company applied for a suspension for six months of labor…

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Rand Gold Mines. Labour Conditions. Capetown, April 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9

Replying to a question in the Legislative Assembly, the Minister for Mines said the number of Europeans re-employed on the Rand gold mines since the strike was called…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 12
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Gold Producers' Association reports that the London quotation for gold on Tuesday was 94/9 per ounce fine, a decrease of /1 since March 25…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 7

The following were among closing mining quotations on tho London Stock Exchange on Monday.--B.H. Proprietary, b 23s 6d,. s 25s; Block 10, 7s 6d; North B.H., b 27s 9d, s 38s 5d…

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Fatalities & Accidents Struck by Coal Basket

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9

Robert M'Donald (32), a coal -lumper, of Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, was admitted to Sydney Hospital last night suffering from injuries to the spine. He was working at the…

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The Miners. Denounce a Strike. But Make Preparations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 8

For months past, as previously stated in these columns, the Miners' Federation has been making preparation for the possible occurrence of a big industrial upheaval in the…

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Under the Library Lamp. Reviews. What Things Are Mine

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 9

What things are mine shall come to me, Someone from out the dark unknown— In storm or calm, by land or sea, Through deserts wild or fruitful sown…

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Commercial, Investment & Mining Markets Millet Scarce for Broom Making Sussex-street Trade

Evening News · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 5

Few bales of broom millet are coming from the Hunter, the Richmond, or the Manning, and some broom factories are inconvenienced by lack of any…

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The Wheelers. Defy the Miners' Executive. Equal Pay Demanded. Aggregate Meeting. (From Our Special Representative.) Weston

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1922 · page 10

The whole of the collieries in the South Maitland coalfields with one exception were thrown idle to-day by the action of the wheelers in calling an aggregate meeting in defiance of…

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Federal or State? Colliery Deputies' Wages

The Sun · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 7

Judge Beeby, in the Industrial Court to-day, gave judgment on the application for fixing the wages and conditions of colliery deputies. The point…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 4

Kampong Kamunting, during February, ran two dredges for 1124 hours., treating 148,000 cubic yards for a yield of 53,10 tons. This product, when…

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Tragedy Feared Woman Mining

Evening News · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 8

A bout 6 O'clock yesterday morning Ruby Beatrice Watson (27),a single woman, residing with Miss [?] at Oaks Avenue.Doe why,left her…

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23/4 a Day Colliery Deputies' Award Judge Beeby's Finding

Evening News · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 5

Holding against the [?] that the [?] right to appeal to [?] of [?]…

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The World's Oldest Mine Primitive Methods Still Employed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 3

On the outskirts of the town of Fatun, in the world. It began to produce copper in 1225. In the seventeenth…

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Miners Join A.W.U. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 10

At a meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union, held last night, Mr. Blakeley, M.P., president of the Australian Workers' Union, gave an address on the aims and objects of the…

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Blasting with Water. a New Motliod of Coal-setting

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 15

A new method of balsting coal by water instead of powder will diminish greatly the frequency of mining disasters, it is believed. The apparatus…

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