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Mining & the mines, 1922

3,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 82 of 172

Lead in Lungs Broken Hill Miners Health Commission's Report

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 6

The most complete scientific investigation ever conducted into the working conditions of any large body of men in the world has just been…

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Jury Condemned for Mine War Verdict New York, June 28

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 5

The newspapers throughout me country are unanimous in condemning the Herrin coroner's jury's verdict. They blame the authorities in Williamson…

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Illinois Mine War Inquest on Victims Herrin (Illinois), June 28

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 5

The coroner s jury, believed to be under union miners' influence, found that the officials of the mine owned by the Southern Illinois Coal Company were guilty of the death of…

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Vegetable Creek Tin Mining Co., N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 11

Operations by the Veg[?]able Creek Tin-mining Co., N.L., during the year ended April 19 resulted in a loss of £9798. At the eleventh annual meeting yesterday the shareholders, by resolution, empowered the…

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Alleged Secrecy A.W.U. at Newcastle Miners Incensed Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 6

"Secret negotiations," alleged by the miners to have been conducted by the A.W.U. in the settlement of industrial disputes at Newcastle, threaten to strain the relations between the…

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America's Mine War the Tragedy in Illinois New York, June 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 June 1922 · page 9

The offitlals of the Herrln mine (Illinois) have asked the authoitles for protection while removing injured non-union workers from hospital to Chicago, in order to safeguaid them,…

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Gold in "Played-out" Mine. Fossickers Rewarded

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 8

DEspite the popular belier that the Nundle and Hanging Rock gold fields wera "played-out," fossickers have occasionally found good gold, and…

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Work at Lucknow Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 11

The mine manager's weekly report from Lucknow mines states that the winze being put down on the vein is now to 18ft. The vein is improving in with and values, the indications being very promising. The…

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Gold Estate Sold

The Land · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 14

The Claremont Estate, at Kelso, which has been in possession of the Lee family for about a century, was sold last week at auction in four…

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Clean Gold and Silver Lace

The Propeller · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 6

Gold and silver lace, or any kind of metallic embroidery, may be cleaned in the following way: Grate some dry bread finely, and mix with it some…

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Health of Mine-workers. Technical Commission's Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 8

Professor Henry G. Chapman and Dr. S. A. Smith have Just issued the final report of the Technical Commission of Inquiry concerning the conditions in and on the Broken Hill…

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British Mine to Close Down Temporarily. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 11

The winding engine at Thompson's shaft at the British mine broke down last night. As a result a[?] work is likely to be held up for three weeks. The general manager, Mr. Emery, made the following state…

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U.S. Coal Strike Conference Agreed To VANCOUVER

The Sun · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 11

The coal operators and union leaders have accepted President Harding's invitation to a conference to attempt to settle the strike…

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W.A. Mining Award. London, June 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 9

Sir George Dooletto (chairman of directors of the Great Boulder Proprietary), speaking as a meeting of shareholders, said he was disappointed with the wages award, which was…

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News From the Four Quarters Strike Tragedy Miners Massacred Women Beaten to Death

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 3

Last week it was announced that fourteen [?] were killed, two were dying, and a score seriously wounded in a battle between coal miners and…

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Coalcliff Colliery. Scarborough

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 14

Work has continued to progress smo[?] [?] the resumption of operations at the [?]cliff co[?]ery a fortnight ago. During last week a marked improvement was shown it…

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Broken Hill Mines. Droken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 14

Owing to a serious accident to the winding engine in Thompson's shaft section of the British mine, which smashed the right cylinder beyond repair, the British mine has been…

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Associated Extended Tin Mines, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 16

The [?]naging director of Associated Extended Tia Mines, N. L., reports that the working party has [?] re-organised, and [?] operations resumed on Wednesday list with one shift Under the co-operative…

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Picture Houses a Girl of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 12

A little thing she is, her character clad in Nature's inspiring garb of beauty and love, and whose sincerity stands out real in that land of paint and shadows--screendom. "Who…

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MINING South Lucknown Down Again

Evening News · Saturday 1 July 1922 · page 6

In the mining market this morning business outaide of South [?] gold was pr[?] at a stand-till. In single sales B H South, at 32 10[?] were [?]…

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