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Mining & the mines, 1924

4,555 stories in Sydney's papers · page 75 of 228

Fined If They Work Miners at Play May Day Celebration

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 9

A difficult problem --how to spend a holiday right at your front door and still have a complete change --has been solved the Balmain miners…

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Gold Find Good Results Near Parkes PARKES

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 12

An outbreak of mining fever is imminent here, owing to recent discoveries in the Victoria mine, about throe miles from the town. A local syndicate,…

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Bellbird. Mine to Reopen. Probably on Monday. (By Our Special Representative.) Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 8

Everything is in train for the reopening of Bellbird colliery, which on September 1 last took toll of the lives of 21 miners and officials…

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Professional Runners at Birchgrove Oval Balmain Miners' Picnic To-day--Profits to Go to Local Hospital

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 2

Sports are to be held on Birchgrove Oval to-day in connection with the Balmain Miners' Picnic. There are a 100 yards and 440 yards professional…

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Business Done Yesterday in Money and Mining Bawra Shares Had Serious Relapse Owing to Growing Uncertainty Regarding Nances and Date of Finalisation.--colonial Sugar Moved Forward Again to £40 2.6--Goldsbrough, Mort Strengthened at 53 9--Tooth's Brewery Found a Be[?]eh Market.--bonds Weakened. -- Australian Gaslight Slipped to £6 15; and Hetton Bellbird to 24[?]--Mining Business Generally Slackened, and Prices Were Weaker in Most Lines, Even Mt. Isa Being Offered Lower

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 6

The inconsequential and indifi[?] report issued by the Bawra [?] yesterday had the effect of [?] the market which duly [?] from…

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Lucknow Gold Mines, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 11

The manager, Lucknow Gold Mines, N.L., report[?] that, at the meeting of shareholders held on April 1[?], the resolution for winding up the company was unanimously turned down. The Lucknow…

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Loch Katherine Colliery, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 11

The prospectus has been issued of Loch Katherine Colliery, Limited. The capital is £150,000, in shares of £1 each. Shares to the number of 60,000 fully paid are to be issued…

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Company News. Loch Katherine Colliery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 9

A prospectus has been issued in connection with the Loch Katherine Colliery, Ltd. The capital is £150,000, divided into 150,000 shares of £1 each. The…

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Price of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 9

The Goal Producers' Association reports that the price of fine gold in London, on April 29, was £4141 an ounce, a fall of 2d, compared with the…

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Mining Shares. Barriers Weak

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 4

Another quiet and depressed market ruled for mining shares. Copper was not represented, while only three silver-lead concerns received attention…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 11

A decided all-round fall in metal prices intensified the prevailing depression in the mining share market yesterday. Support was almost entirely absent, and values were…

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Mining Notes. Tin Returns

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 4

The dredge of Larut worked 574 hours and dredged 80,000 cubic yards for a yield of 37 tons. The dredge of Tupai worked 590…

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Mining Revival at Parkes

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 4

PARKES.--A local mining revival is promised by the discovery o a show on the old Victoria lead, south of the London, two of the richest mines in…

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May Day at the Mines. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 10

All the collleries were idle on the Maitland coalfield owing to the observance of May Day. Processions were held, and at Weston, where 4000 people were present,…

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Mining in Turkey. Extract Englissh “Boilermakers’ Journal”

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 3

The last country in the world where we would expect to find model labor conditions Turkey, and I was therefore surprised to find that the new Government there have…

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Miners' Wages. Court of Inquiry. British Collieries. LONDON, May 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 17

At the final sitting of the Court appointed by the Government to make inquiry into miners' wages, the Chairman (Lord Buckmaster) said: "It is clear that there are men…

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Colliery Strikes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 21

The men are still on strike at the following northern collieries:—Duckenfield No. 2, Cooperative, Burwood, Lambton, Hebburn No. 2, and Northeren Extended. A strike occured…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 5

The Broken 'Hill South, Limited: 1/6 and a bonus of 1/ per share; payable May 16…

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General View of Bellbird Mine

Evening News · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 1

The isolated Bellbird Mine at Cossnock, where the tragic fire accounted for such a heavy toll of lives. The mine will be searched for the six missing bodies on Monday…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 9

The legal manager, Lucknow Gold Mines (N.L.), advises that, at a meeting of shareholders, a motion for winding up the company was unanimously rejected. He states that the…

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