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Mining & the mines, 1922

3,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 172

Company News. Lucknow Mines

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 4

Lucknow mines N.L., have been added to the official list of the Sydney Stock Exchange. The authorised capital is £30,000 in 150,000 shares of 4/ each;…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 2

During May, Asam Kumbang ran for 510 hours, treating 100,000 cubic yards for 28 tons of tin oxide, which realised £2614. I…

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Coal Exports Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 7

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle for pieces beyond the State during the week was 92,929 tons, of which 79,203 tons were for Commonwealth and New Zealand ports, at follows:…

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Miners' Disputes Compulsory Conference Called

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 7

Arrangements were made yesterday by Mr. C. Kibble, chairman of the Coal Industry Special Tribunal, for a compulsory conference to be held early next week to consider the deadlock…

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Coal Export. Small Foreign Trade

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 2

Evidence that the export of coal to foreign countries has diminished was furnished by the figures showing the coal shipped from the port of…

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What Cheaper Coal Would Mean

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 7

The average price now paid by the Sydney Municipal Council for coat is 234 a ton, stated Mr. Nesbitt, Town Clerk, yesterday. In…

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Midas and the Coal Widows

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 24

For a decade past it has been an unwritten law that widows of men killed in the mines should be supplied free with…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 15

An adverse turn in the prices or lead and silver had the effect of checking the rising movement in Barriers in dealing on 'Change yesterday. Each of the principal stocks of the…

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Reduced Pay For Contract Miners Special Commission

Evening News · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 1

The dispute concerning Coalcilffe Colliery, on the South coast, was again before the coal industries special tra[?] at the sitting this…

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W.A. Gold Output. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 15

The gold yield of Western Australia for May was 30,726oz line, a fall of 6068oz compared with the previons month and 8387oz compared with May last year. The total yield for the past five months is 200,264oz…

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Mining Shares. Reaction in Barriers

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 4

The steadily-advancing prices of Barrier shares have at last attracted the profit-taker, and yesterday on Change those dealt in depreciated. British…

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The Miners. Compulsory Conference Arranged. a £50,000 Wages Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 12

The announcement was made yesterday that the chairman of the Coal Tribunal (Mr. Kibble) had decided to summon a compulsory conference between representatives of the…

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£2000 HURDLE Gold Snow's Good Chance a High-class Field

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 5

Recent form has revealed a great deal of latent hurdle talent in N.S.W. It was not tapped until the A.J.C. launched out with big stakes to…

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Engineers Lose Employers' Terms Taken Starving Miners Grave Unrest in Britain LONDON, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 1

The ballot taken by 47 engineering unions, excluding the Amalgamated Engineers' Union, resulted in a majority of more than 50,000…

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Black Diamonds Our Tribute to the Coal Kings Profits Increase 100 Per Cent

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 24

The abnormally high rate of coal to-day is due to the operations of the Commonwealth Coal Control Board. It has resulted in an organisation more compact than the disbanded Coal Vend of 1911 in maintaining prices…

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Romance of Industry Men Who Laughed at Ziffs and Found Gold in Commerce

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 18

It is a habit with the Ziff directors of prosperous shipping and banking companies to preface announcement of record profits by pessimistic forecasts of the future. It is refreshing to learn that there are people in Australia who dis[?]…

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Credit at the Store Was It Obtained by False Pretences? P.M. Declines to Commit for Trial Evidence About a Mine

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 3

"I think it would be perfectly useless to send a case of this kind to the Quarter Sessions for trial by jury, I don't think any jury would convict," said…

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The New Goldfield Muriel Tank Not Yet An Eldorado "Smith's Weekly's" Special Investigation Surface Show Won't Attract Capital

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 10

"Smith's Weekly" wasn't satisfied with the glowing accounts of the prospects of the Muriel Tank Goldfield as presented by the Sydney press, and despatched its own representative, Mr. John Drayton, to make the fullest…

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Mining

The Sun · Sunday 4 June 1922 · page 4

Business in the mining section has been much more brisk than in investment shares, and both copper and silver-leads are firmer…

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Gold Snow Scratched

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 June 1922 · page 11

Gold Snow, who was an acceptor for the A.J.C. Steeplechase was scratched for that race yesterday…

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