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Mining & the mines, 1922

3,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 172

Gold Yield. Heavy Fall. Last Month's Decrease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 9

Last month the decline in the Stato gold yield was less marked than in the preceding months, but the total production so far this year is less than half the output for the…

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The Improving Gold Snow His National Chances Reviewed

Arrow · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 2

By the time these lives are in print Gold Snow will he in Melbourne in anticipation of his National engagements. S. Fielder could hardly get him away…

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Mining Lease. Projected Cement Works. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 10

At the Mining Warden's Court at Capertee, before Mr. James, the Bathurst mining varden, an application was made for the suspension of the labour conditions on mining lease…

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Coal Dispute Failure of Compulsory Conference Special Tribunal to Sit

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 6

The refusal of the coalminers last week to entertain the proprietors' proposals to reduce wages and lengthen hours resulted in the voluntary conference being abortive, and the…

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The Leisure Hour in the Home Circle Rise of the West the Golden Era the Discovery of Gold

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 15

The digging operations at Ophir were at first confined to the immediate vicinity of the Summer Hill and Lewis Ponds streams, the strong flow of water…

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Coal Tribunal Miners Deny Dispute Exists Proprietors' Claims

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 5

The Coal industry Special Tribunal met yesterday at the Commonwealth Bank. The matter before the tribunal was a log of claims submitted by the proprietors, asking for the…

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Coal Miners Hardships in British Fields London, June 8

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 7

The executive of the Miners' Federation has issued a statement to the effect that wagos are so low on many of the coalfields and employment so Irregular that the .workers and…

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Quart-pot's Mine

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 19

QUARTPOT was suspected of having a gold-mine hidden in Wyan Hills. Although the other blacks who worked or moved about on Wooroowoolgen run…

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Balmain Colliery Suggestion to City Council

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 8

Dr. Stopford. M.L.A., has written to the Lord Mayor, drawing attention to the fact that the Balmain Colliery is lying, idle. "If your council would take the necessary…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 4

Block 10 Misima Gold Mines, N.L., returns for May was:—Mill ran 464 hours, treating 3341 tons, which yielded 784 ounces fine gold and 2269 ounces…

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Gold Yield. May Returns

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 4

The Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. R. H. Cambage, has furnished a return, showing that the gold yield for the month of May, 1922, amounted…

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Barrier Miners. Conflicting Medical Views. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 14

Dr. E. M. Steven stated this week that there were a large number of men receiving compensation who should never have been classed as unfit: while, on the other band, there was an…

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New Zealand Gold Find. Wellington, June 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 14

Two miners claim to have discovcred a valuable gold reef near Taumarunul. Specimens have been tested, and the results are said to exceed all expectations…

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Land of Opportunity [?] When The Streets Are Paved With Gold

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 1

In the short-lived mining boom of three weeks ago, South Lucknow (N.S.W.) shares came on the market. They had been listed at 6d. (sellers),…

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Coal Crisis. Special Tribunal. No Settlement. Proposed Appeal to High Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 13

The first sitting of the Coal Industry Special Tribunal, held in the Commonwealth Bank Building yesterday, to consider the new log of the coal proprietors, asking for the…

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Two Pits Close. Miners' Demands Refused. Loss of High Wages. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 June 1922 · page 13

Two colliereis in the Cessnock district are idle owing to a trivial dispute, and the miners are depriving themselves of £2 per day rather than give way. The Cessnock No. 2 colliery…

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Mining

The Sun · Sunday 11 June 1922 · page 4

The turnover in the mining market has been more restricted this week, with a generally easier tendency, except in one or two stocks…

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Smaller Turnover Possibly Due to Income Tax Gold Stocks Quiet

The Sun · Sunday 11 June 1922 · page 4

Probably the Income-tax Commissioner is responsible, but this week the market has been quieter than ever, the investing public showing little…

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Northern Collieries Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 6

Work at the Northern district collieries during the fortnight ended on Saturday was slack only thirteen putting in full time, ten days, and the average was seven and a third. The…

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Newcastle. Work at Collieries. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 June 1922 · page 10

During the past fortnight there was a slight improvement in the coal trade, and thirteen collieries out of forty in the northern district worked the full time of ten days, one less than…

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