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Mining & the mines, 1924

4,555 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 228

Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 13

Barriers displayed greater activity yeaterday. Broken Hill Pty. opened lower at 26/3 for cash, and covering operations caused all scrip available at this price to be absorbed…

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Power Supply. Utilisation of Brown Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 14

Mr. E. J. Duff, a retired engineer now visiting Sydney, was a busy man at Homo during the period of the war, when he desigaed three of the greatest explosive factories that…

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Mine Explosion. Suspicious Circumstances Machinery Damaged. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 8

All is not well at the State arsenic mine at Jibbenbar, Unofficial reports have reached Brisbane of a mysterious explosion in the machinery, which did considerable damage…

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Great Britain Tin-mining Company, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 13

Royalties of £816 received from the Great Britain Tin-sluicing Company Limited, which works its leases, enabled the Great Britain Tin-mining Company, Limited, to show a net profit of £516 for the year ended…

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British Miners And Wages Agreement Notice to End London, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 1

It is officially announced that the miners' ballot resulted in 510,000 voting for and 114,00 against giving three months' notice to…

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The Collieries. Northern Fields. Two More Stoppages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 18

There were two more strikes on the northern coalfields yesterday, in consequence of which Killingworth and Wallarah (Catherine Hill Bay) collieries had to be closed down. At…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 8

Retaliation Junction (in liq.): Distribution of capital, first and final, £5/6/6 100 shares; payable on surrender of scrip…

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A Mine of Knowledge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 13

Points upon the history and conduct of cricket; notes regarding the constitution of the United States Congress; scientific and popular observations on…

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Gold Producers' Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 19

The Gold Producers' Association, Limited, exported only 10,000 sovereigns (representing 2568oz standard gold) in December. Sales of gold to manufacturing jewellers and other…

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Fire at Mine. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 18

The fire brigade received a call to the Zig Zag mine last night, and Captain Martin and nine men were promptly on the spot. They found a stack of pit props, situated only a few…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 19

Mining share business on 'Change was on a light scale yesterday. Barriers found a strong market. Proprietary recovered /1½ at 26/7[?], on the exchange of 500 shares. It…

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Miners' Ballot. Wages Question. London, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 17

It is officially announced that the miners' ballot resulted in 510,000 votes for, and 114,000 against, giving three months' notice to terminate the national wages agreement…

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Coal Disputes Conference of Parties The Coke Strike

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 8

In the offices of the Department of Labor and Industry yesterday, a compulsory conference between representatives of the coke owners and the Coal…

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Late Commercial and Mining. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 18

Sales on 'Change to-day included:—Silver: Broken Hill Proprietary,, 26/3, 26/4½; Junction North, 5/6; North B.H., 67/6, 66/, 66/7½; South, 44/4½, 44/, 44/1½. Electrolytic, 8 p.c., 29/1½. Gold: Great Boulder, 3/;…

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A Coal Miner Knight. Story Reads Like Magazine Romance

The World's News · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 26

I DROPPED into a theatre down in Los Angeles the other night, not because I wanted to go to a show, but…

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Miners May Strike Question of Notice Majority in Favor LONDON, January 17

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 7

It is officially announced that the miners' ballot has resulted as follows: -- In favor of giving three months'…

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Man Who Made the Coal Barons Geological Work of Professor David Prospector Without a Stake in the Country

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 16

THIRTY years after it was proved that the Toms and Lister discovered…

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Meetings of Branches League officials are reminded that reports of meetings should reach the Editor by Tuesday to ensure publication. Write on only one side of the paper. Stockton Miners' Lodge

Labor News · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 2

A special meeting of the above Lodge was held in the Sulphide Hall on January 10, Comrade J. Williams presiding. District President T. Hoare was present and…

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Hetton Bellbird Collieries More Capital Required

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 January 1924 · page 2

Owing to prospects of increasing trade on the re-opening of No. 1 tunnel after the recent disaster, and expenses in connection with same, the directors…

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Mining

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1924 · page 4

Barriers and tin stocks have again provided the bulk of the business in the mining section, as a result of the firm metal market. Copper is still at…

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