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Mining & the mines, 1926

5,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Mining

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 4

Operators on the mining side of 'Change, experienced difficulty in keeping track of the variations in metal market quotations and in…

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Colliery Disasters New York, January 15

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 1

Eighty-seven bodies have been recovered from the Degnan Colliery, Atlanta, Georgia, where an explosion two days ago entombed 105 miners,…

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Those Gold Passes

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 3

"All is lost save honor," wrote the unhappy Francis the First. In spite of Mr. Lang's kindly efforts to save for them something more substantial…

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Silver and Gold Speeches and Passes

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 2

Parliamentarians, who in return for speeches of silver receive from a grateful country passes of gold, total proximately 1000 in Australia…

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Gold Excitement in North Claims Give Good Returns West Maitland

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1926 · page 1

Considerable activity in gold mining is being displayed around Copeland. Several claims being worked are giving good returns. Webeck Bros, have put…

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Race for Miners

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 6

For the Menangle Club Novice Handicap at Kembla to-morrow the club is adding £30. making £70, and dividing the race into two divisions…

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General News Lucky State Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 4

LITHGOW.--With the exception of the State coal mine, serious truck shortages were experienced at all Lithgow collieries last week. As a…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 15

Turnover was small, but values appreciated in the mining share market on Saturday, this despite a further fall in non-ferrous met [?] prices. Alone of the Barriers Souths receded,…

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Entombed in a Mine. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 13

Entombed for four days and nights in a coalmine and mourned as dead, John Poole was rescued from the Wathmain colliery, near Rotberbam. He said that his lamp was…

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Must Take Care Miners on Train West Maitland

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 8

The Miners' Lodge has passed a motion ordering every member of the lodge to travel inside the carriages on the Richmond Main employees' train…

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Safety in Mines Lodges' Circular Men Not to Pay Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 6

Stanford-Merthyr No. 2 and Rothbury minors' lodges are circularising the whole of the northern district lodges requesting a…

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Italy's Debt Return of Gold Deposit Churchill Opposed London

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 1

The negotiations for the settlement of Italy's war debt to Britain are making normal progress. Experts are studying the memorandum of…

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Miners' Cheers for Walsh Seamen's Strike Wilsonian Methods to Be Exposed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 5

REFERRING to the seamen's A strike at a mass meeting of the Miners' Union at Wonthaggi this afternoon, Mr. Tom Walsh…

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Miners' Bonuses

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 10

The Barrier Industrial Council has decided in approach the Mining Managers' Association for a conference regarding the continuance for the remaining two…

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Colliery Dispute Shareholding Conscription

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 5

Neg[?]tians are in progress for a settlement of a dispute at the Sunbe[?] Colliery. Korumburra, Victoria. These, including a conference between…

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Coal Export. Newcastle Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 4

The quantity of coal including bunkers) shipped at Newcastle last week for places beyond the State was 79,730 tons, of which 64,380 tons…

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Mount Morgan Gold Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 13

In a statement issued to shareholders, Mount Morgan Gold Company, Limited, declares that since circulaising shareholders on october 7 last the directors have given much couslilcrutlon to the…

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Gold Imports Into America

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 13

There are not wanting authorities who still view the continuance of imports of gold into the United States with anxiety. The economic writer of the monthly review of the…

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Mining Shares. Higher Prices

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 5

Except for unimportant (decreases in North B.H. and Ratrut, all mining scrip dealt in yesterday was either steady or firmer, mostly the latter. In…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 13

Quietness prevailed in the mining share market yesterday. A comprehensive list was traded, with a limited turnover, but values displayed firmness. Two coppers were…

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