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Mining & the mines, 1924

4,555 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 228

Mining Shares. Barriers Active

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 4

Activity in Barriers was the only feature of note connected with trade in mining shares yesterday. B.H. Pty. advanced 3d to 27/3 on the disposal of…

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Late Mining. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 10

Sales and quotations on Change to-day were:— Silver: Broken Hill Propy.. 27/9, 27/1½, 27/3, b 27/, s 27/3; Block 10, b 2/6, s 3/3; Block 14 (pref.), s 7/9; Block 14 (ord.), b 2/, s 3/6; Junction North, b 5/6, s…

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Hearts of Gold. a Pitiful Story

The St George Call · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 6

From time to time, pitiful little stories drift to one. This week, the writer heard a story which, for real pathos, outdoes fiction and it is a…

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Mount Isa Mines Deep-Seated Ores BRISBANE

The Sun · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 12

Mr. W. H. Corbould, director of the Mount Isa Mines, Limited, has inspected the field and, telegraphed from Cloncurry that arrangements have…

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Lure of Gold Barellan Discovery History of Temora

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 4

Visions of the rich gold fields of earlier days are conjured up by the reported discovery near Barellan and Ardlethan of a reef from 4ft. to 14ft…

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Members Ask Some Pointed Questions Welsh coal--North Shore Bridge Steel--Cost of Imperial Conference Singapore Cables

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday--The speaker of the House of Representatives took the chair at 2.30 p.m., and read letters of thanks in reply to the…

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Serious Aspect of Coke Trouble Affects Thousands of Employees--mr. HIBBLE's Comments--the Compulsory Conference. Coal Industry Involved

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 1

A serious aspect of the coke dispute affecting the whole of the coal industry in this State was considered in conference yesterday,…

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Effort to Open Bellbird Mine Dangerous--but Many Volunteers--special Appliances--sad Task of Raising Abandoned Bodies. Opening May 5

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 5

NEWCASTLE Thursday.--On Monday, May [?] a commencement will be made to open the Bellbird mine Numbers of men have volunteered for the…

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Racing at Rosebery Dainty Toy, Ir Bass and Old Gold Win Again: Poor Joan's Remark Able Run

Arrow · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 5

The stewards were fairly busy at Rosebery on Wednesday last, but nothing serious eventuated. An inquiry was held into the running of Dainty Joan…

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The Gold Rush to Ardlethan Bailiff Speaks of Excellent Prospects--but Issues a Warning All the Same. a Stream of Vehicles

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 5

TEMORA, Thursday.--Portion 141, in the parish of Dowling, in the county Cooper, out from Barellan, is at present the point upon which streams of…

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Business Done Yesterday in Money and Mining Bawra Shares Slumped Bad. by Because They Ran the Full Gamut in Anticipation of the Verdict, and the Overbought Market Will Not Respond--sydney Ferries at 213 Have the Wind Up Threepence Less About the Bridge Than on Wednesday-- Colonial Sugar Spelt Weaker at £58, Seller Giving Ground--bank N.s.w. Firm at £40[?]10[?] Metals Debacle Skittles Dependent Shares, and Gold Joins Up in the General Retreat

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 March 1924 · page 6

The slump in Bawra to 1111 was the principal feature on Change, About 6000 shares were dealt in. The surroundings are fully dealt with…

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Lucknow Gold Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 19

Lucknow Gold Mines report that, at an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the compony, held on March 27, the following resolution was carried:—"That the company ho wound up voluntarily,…

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Gold Mining

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 4

The latest report from Melbourne dated 24th March, with regard to the Rose Thistle and Shamrock mine at Harrietville, says:—Crushed 420 tons; yield 323…

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Northern Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 18

Work was resumed yesterday morning at three of the mines on the northern coalfields at which the miners had been on strike, these being Burwood, Neath, and Hebburn No. 1…

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Tin Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 18

The secretary of the central branch of the A.W.U. (Mr. Geo. Buckland) stated yesterday that the trouble which had been likely to arise in the tin mines at Ardlethan had been…

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Miners As Ministers

The World's News · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 9

In no other Government has romance and drama, as evidenced by the inspiring careers of its members, figured more prominently than it does in the present Administration in…

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Questions Coal for Navy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 7

Mr. Bowden, Minister for Defence told Mr. Watkins (N.S.W.) that the Australian Fleet used Australian coal for ordinary purposes, but greater speed…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 19

With tin the only metal on which the downward trend had been checked, the mining share market as a whole had little chance of rallying yesterday. The brightest feature…

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Mine of Fire Shovel as Fire Engine

Evening News · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 3

All known efforts to extinguish an underground fire which has been raging for twelve months in a seam of coal in Pennsylvania, have failed; but…

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First of May Red Letter Day Miners' Decision Newcastle

Evening News · Saturday 29 March 1924 · page 7

Miners in the north have decided to cease work for the day on May 1—May Day—and efforts are being made to induce other industrial…

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