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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Western Australian Gold Yield. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 9

The December gold yield was 44,688 fine ounces, valued at £189,397, compared with 33,318 ounces for November, and 45,767 ounces for December last year. The total…

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Mining Laws Are Too Vague Attempt to Unravel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 4

So many laws now govern the mining industry in New South Wales that even the law does not quite know where it stands. There is such an…

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Latest Cables Fourteen Miners Injured Cage Crashes to Pit Bottom London, January 5

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 1

Fourteen miners were seriously injured when a cage crashed to the bottom of a pit at a colliery at New Craighall, Edinburgh, this morning…

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The Collieries. Eight Pits Idle. Irritation Stoppages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 14

Although the Coal Industry Special Tribunal is to meet during the present month to decide the general claims made by the Miners' Federation, the irritation…

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Synthetic Gold

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 3

The feasibility of manufactures gold enough at a prohative [?] to per determined by experienced [?] being [?] by well-known…

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Huge Coal Wastage

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 11

DESPITE the fact that coal barons like John Brown derive enormous incomes from their collieries, many of their mining methods are behind the times, and…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 15

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 87/4 per ounce fine, a fall of /2 since Friday. At this price the pound sterling would be worth 4.735 dollars in…

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Coal Export. Newcastle Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 5

The amount of coal (including bunkers) shipped at Newcastle during last week for places beyond the State was 35,120 tons, of which 25,500 tons…

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Coal Shortage City Council Affected Electric System

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 1

MINERS holidays and the sum [?].. harvest is is stated have caused a coa ishorage in the Electric Light Department of the…

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Coal Trimmers Elect New Officers Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 6

The first general meeting of the Newcastle Coal Trimers Union was held yesterday in the Coal Trimers Hall Carrington…

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Mining Problems Conference of Wardens

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

Several matters of importance to miners were dealt with at a conference of mining wardens at the Department of Mines yesterday…

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Price of Gold Lowest Since the War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 12

Fine gold, our correspondent cables, was quoted in London on Monday at the nominal rate of 87s 4d an ounce, the lowest price touched since the war…

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Bellbird Mine. Work Soon to Be Resumed. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 15

The preparations for roopening Bollbird colliery are gradually Hearing completion. During the past fortnight three shifts of men have been continuously engaged in…

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Safety in Mines Cessnock Lodges Committee Justifield KURRl KURRI

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 5

The formation of the Northern tried Safety Propanganda Committee has fully Justified itself. Inquiries have been received from the…

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Mining Procedure. Simplifying Methods. Conference of Wardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 14

Further consideration was yesterday given to the various phases of the Mining Act and the mining regulations by the conference of Special Mining Wardens. The Under-Secretary for…

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Bellbird Mine Resumes in a Fortnight Mass of Debris Chssnock

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 5

Rellbird Colliery was idle to-day. The wheeler objected to the employment of a miner who laid recently been engaged at Alder mine, and…

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Mining. Interstate Exchanges Reopen. Prices Higher All Round

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 15

The Sydney Stock Exchange reopens to-morrow. Melbourne and Adelaide began operations yesterday, however, and on the former exchange mining sales showed considerable…

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N.S.W. Mining Industry. a Record Year

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 2

The value of the minerals produced in New South Wales during 1924 will, according to Mr. Mance, Under-Secretary of Mines, be a record. The value of the…

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Promotion to Coal Cardiff Borehole Statement by Mr. Hoare Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 6

On advice tendered by Mr. T. Hoare, president of the Northern Miners Cardiff Borehole Miners' Lodge to-day decided to resume,…

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More Labor Risks Lad Crushed Mining Accident Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 6

William Sellshaw (16). mine trapper, employed at Wallsend coal pit, and living In Cardiff Road, Wallsend, was admitted to Wallsend Hospital this…

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