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Mining & the mines, 1924

4,555 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 228

Lost Mines Store of Untold Wealth Fruitless Searches

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 February 1924 · page 15

The man who is fortunate enough to discover a gold mine usually takes good card not to lose sight of it; and yet within the last two generations or…

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Mining Barriers Firmer Crown Call Rumored

Evening News · Friday 29 February 1924 · page 4

Trading in mining interest was [?] brighter this morning and notwithstanding irregularities [?] metal prices, [?]…

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Gold Mining

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 4

Rose. Thistle, and Shamrock.—The mine manager's report, dated Harrietville, February 22nd, bays:—Shamrock Underlay Shaft: 130ft. level; main drive cast to…

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Wants of the Gold-mining Indusary. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 19

The Acting Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer (Dr. Earle Page) received an important deputation yesterday at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, consisting of representatives of the Kalgoorlie and Boulder…

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Colliery Dispute Ended. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 18

Work has been resumed at the Commonwealth Portland Cement Company's colliery at Piper's Flat, which had been idle for more than five months owing to a dispute about the…

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Mining Disputes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 17

The chairman of the Coal Tribunal (Mr. Hibble) has arranged to leave Sydney to-morrow evening for Tasmania, to inquire into coal mining disputes in that State. He is going…

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Mining Notes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 4

The Great Britain Sluicing Company, Ltd., reports that the Britain tributer cleaned up on Wednesday, 27th instant, after sluicing 160 hours…

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His Dream of Gold

The Sun · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 1

Sunburnt and wrinkled, this old prospector, John Vince, rode 3000 miles to Melbourne to see the Prime Minister about developing his gold mine in a remote part of Queensland…

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Pranks of a Coal Train

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 7

A coal train, with a load of n early a thousand tons of coal, and drawn by two powerful engines, a few days ago came to grief at Swan Ponds, a few miles south of Mandurama. The train ran on to a side line, and crashed into a dead-end. which was 12ft. above a creek. The two engines were carried into the creek, and the second engine doubled up under the tender of the first. Three locomotives, besides a gang of 40…

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Mining Tin Up £6

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 6

Trading in mining stocks this morning resulted in a minimum of business although the market was particularly bright as rewards prices. Not a single downward…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 19

A return to activity marked the mining share market yesterday, and the principal producing companies had support. Perturbation caused by the fact that at Broken Hill the…

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Who'll Go After N.t. Gold?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 16

PROSPECTORS will then get the assistance and encouragement for…

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Financial. Future of Gold. Currency or Commodity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 19

What is to be the future of gold? Will it hold its own as the basts of currency, or will it remain merely as a commodity. There is an attempt being made in Great Britain just…

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First Gold Discovery. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 20

Sir,—Referring to the matter of first gold discovery by "H.C.L.A.," which appeared in your paper of 9th inst., I wish to say Hargraves could never bring anybody to…

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Methodists Meet in Conference An Unwieldly Membership--Reductions Proposed--Cobar Mining Revival South Sydney Mission

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 5

The delegates to the Methodist Conference had a strenuous time yesterday. They dealt successively with Foreign Missions, Connectional Funds,…

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Gold Chains at 7-Per Dozen George Street Auctioneers in Court --Big Firms Desire to Protect the Public Case to Go to Jury

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 March 1924 · page 5

Further evidence in connection with the charge of conspiracy against three George Street auctioneers--Ernest Salon, Leonard Wilson and Arthur…

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Mining

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1924 · page 4

With the improvement in the franc and the settlement of the dockers' strike, metals again took an upward turn last week…

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At the Strand "Your Friend and Mine"

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1924 · page 4

Willard Mack, author of "Your Friend and Mine," which opened yesterday at the Strand Theatre, owes much to Shakespeare and "Hamlet"…

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Wallerawang Collieries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 March 1924 · page 11

Our Lithgow correspondent states that before the Warden (Mr. James) at the Lithgow Mining Warden's Court Harry Elliot Brown, on behalf of Wullerawang Collieries, Limited, applied for a suspension…

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Mining Notes. Lucknow Pups Gold-mining Company, N.l

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 March 1924 · page 4

At 140 ft. level, No. 2 drive (S.E.) on Joint, has been driven 100 ft. in the last few feet more mineralised stone has been broken in bottom of…

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