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Mining & the mines, 1927

4,154 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 208

Aliens in Mines

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 4

Sir,--Your correspondent. Fred. S. SpIllman. In his letter of December 24, apparently does not understand the menace foreigner are in the mining…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 12

The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, has issued the following progress report for the fortnight ended December 22:—Mount Lyell mine: No pyrites extracted…

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Loss in Wages Colliery Strikes Last Year's Record

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 1

A return compiled by the Northern Colliery Owners' Association shows that over the past year there were 207 stoppages of work occasioned by…

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(Published by Arrangement) Underground Gold

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 2

"Since the underground liquor traffle grew to its present gigantie size it has paid for protection with an everswelling flow of gold, estimated now at…

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Draining a Lake for Gold

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 2

An enterprising company is turning its attention toward a lake in British Columbia, which is believed by many people to contain gold…

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The Miners. Losses Through Strikes Northern Coalfields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 9

Returns compiled by the Northern Collieries Association disclose that, during 1926 there were 207 stoppages at various collieries on the northern fields, involving a loss in…

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"Bondy" Hoare Critical Miners' Federation Difficulties Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 10

COMMENTING on his re-election to the presidency of the northern district of the Miners' Federation, Mr. T. Hoare and something to say…

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Mine Official's Death Mr. D. Hughes. Lithgow Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 5

The death occurred last night at Lithgow Hospital of Mr David Hughes under-manager at Oakey Park Colliery Deceased had been…

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In Days of Gold. A Romance of the Diggings. CHAPTER XXIV.—(Continued.)

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 36

A dozen pair of hands hauled us apart. Before I knew how it had all come to pass they had hauled my shirt over my head, and I was in the ring, with the Black Douglas…

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Oil From Coal

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 1

A STATEMENT was made in London by Dr. William Ormandy, the authority on petrol research, that there was enough…

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Revival in Mining Forecasted in West Australia

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 12

From the Kimberley goldfield, cast of Hall's Creek, West Australia, a phenomenally rich sample of ore has been received by the Mines Department. The…

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Mount Morgan Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 9

Mount Morgan G.M. Co. reports the experimental treatment scheme referred to in directors' report in July last, has been pushed on with. At Present ore is being extracted by parties of…

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British Coal Strikers Stormy Seas

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 8

A STRIKE SCENE. Gathering Such a, this are frequent during the currency of the British coal strike. The men flock to various centre to hear the latest development. Here they are waiting to give Mr. David Kirkwood, Labor M.P., a reception. AN ANGRY SEA. These folk at Manly did not venture further than the rock when the breakers dashed on to the beach during the cyclonic disturbance of last week. The waves…

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Mining. Mount Morgan Treatment Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 11

The directors of Mount Morgan G.M. Co., Ltd., report that the experimental treatment scheme referred to in the report to shareholders in July last has been pushed on with At…

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Mt. Morgan Mine New Treatment Ore From Open Cut

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 3

In July last, the directors of Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company outlined a scheme for mining about 800,000 torn of are by steam or electric shovels, working in the…

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"Rained Gold" Test Match Profits Still a Secret

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 9

The report on the test matches, to be presented to the Board of Cricket Control on January 7, is understood to…

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Huge Profits on English Coal £2 a Ton More Than Pre-stoppage Owners' Big Harvest

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 5

Colonel Lane-Fox. Secretary of the British Mines Department, has admitted in the House of Commons that at some pits where men had returned…

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Oil From Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13

In a paper on "Oil Fuel and Other Fuels from Carbonisation Processes," read before the institution of Petroleum Technologists, in London recently. Mr. P. Mollwo…

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Mining. State Diamond Fields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13

In a report in the "Herald" on December 17 of the finding in Australia of a diamond which was sold for £400, there appeared some information about our diamond output. The…

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Monetary and Commercial. Financial. Suggested British Coal Trust

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13

Professor J. E. Boyle, of Cornell University, suggests that the remedy for the ills of the British coal industry is the formation of a trust which will control production. There…

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