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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Not Yet Gold for Paper? Treasury Secretary Here

The Sun · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 7

Mr. J. R. Collins, Secretary to the Federal Treasury, who is also a member of the directorate of the Commonwealth Bank, returned to Sydney this…

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Hero's Reward Newcastle Shark Tragedy Gold Medal for Lees

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 1

James G. Lees, the hero of the Newcastle shark tragedy, is to receive the Royal Shipwreck, Relief, and Humane Society's gold medal, in recognition of…

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

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 4

During the holidays the boiler was cleaned and the machinery overhauled. Stoping of ore (at the 200ft. level) continues in preparation for crushing…

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In the Mine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 9

Forward or back, where at the face we The roof pours down a cold, incessant rain…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 4

Pioneer Tin Mining Co., Ltd.: 9d a share; payable April 4. Kamunting: 1/ a share; payable April 30…

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The Wages Miners Earn British and German Compared Mine Owners Can Pay More Some Useful Facts Stated

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 9

AS AN EXCUSE for attempting to reduce the wages of British coalminers, the mine-owners state that they are being ruined by the competition of the German mines in which the wages are, the British mine-owners allege, extremely low. The "London Compendium," which…

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Money and Mining

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 6

There was a firm tone about bonds yesterday, especially the long-dated Issues. The 6 p.c., 1927, went 76 better at [?]101176. The 44 and 5, 1927, issues, were…

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Get Gold or Go Under

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 16

BILL KERRIDGE is the only man I have met in N.S. Wales who was on Dick Betts' last find (now Burtonville, W.A.), when Jack…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 19

The mining share market was dull and depressed yesterday, with but slight disposition to trade evinced. Metal prices had made no progress according to the latest…

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Late Mining. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 18

Business on 'Change to-day included:- Silver: Broken Hill Proprietary, 2[?]/9, b 25/9, s 2[?] Block 1[?] (pref.), s 7/; Block 1[?] (ord.), b 2/9, s 2/10; Junction North, b 7/; s 7/6; No[?]th 93/4[?] [?]3/3, b [?]…

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Miners' Risks John Forrest's Death Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 5

At the close of the inquest concerning the death of John Kendall Forrest, 28, a miner, who was killed by a fall of stone in Mt. Kembla mine on April…

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Locked Out South Coast Miners Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 8

Since the stoppage of the Illawarra mines over the question of titling the South Bull waggons, the owners of the mines where the stoppages have…

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Non-unionism Rampant Truculent Mine-owners Defeat Unions

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 9

The following account of the unorganised state of the coal industry in the United States is from the Chicago "Federation News":--…

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Mining Shares. Reaction in Compounds

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 4

As in investments, the turnover, in mining stocks was far below that on the previous day, and there was a weaker tendency in the market…

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New Ideas in Science and Invention. Pearls From Coal

The World's News · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 14

A discovery, appropriately stated as astonishing, emanates from Geneva. Two Swiss chemists, it is reported, have discovered that pearls of such beauty and…

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Idle Mines. South Coast. No Call to Work. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 18

Since the Easter hoildays whistles have not blown for work at the collieries where the men refused to fill waggons from the South Buil min whilst that mine had been declared…

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Romances of Mining in Mexico. Man Who Saved 5000 Lives

The World's News · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 7

THE little mining town of Cobre, in Mexico, possesses a monument to one of the finest deeds of heroism ever recorded…

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The Boat Race. Blue and Gold the Scots Chance in Strongest Heat

Evening News · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 2

THE [?] College [?] the final at last year's G.P.S. Regatta. Brawn an the [?] heat this time, T.S.C. [?] another…

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Dummy! Get Your Axe Next N.s.w. Parliament Will Try Two More Burglaries Higher Salaries First, Then the Gold Pass Grab If You're the Fool They Think You Are

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 April 1925 · page 3

In which "Smith's" unearths a projected raid upon Dummy in N.S.W. by the new State Parliament to the extent of a mere…

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