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Mining & the mines, 1927

4,154 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 208

Mining Market. Barriers Irregular Restricted Dealing

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 8

HIGHER: Broken Hill South 16. Solphide Corp. 3d. Amalgamated Kawarau [?] Tanami 2d. [?]…

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Coal Town in Mourning The Cowboy Lassos Bill an Uninteresting Chase

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 5

NEWCASTLE mourns. Crepe hangers are busy, and grief is great. All this unusual anguish is occasioned by the absent fighting form of Billy Edwards which seemingly departed this sphere…

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"Mind Your Own Business" Miners' Sec. to A.w.u. That "News" Story

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 5

"I NOTICE that in unearthing its latest political plot, the 'Evening News' quotes the A.W.U. as having a scheme for the investigation of the…

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Buried Gold May Be Seen Electric Eye Check on Wild Cats London

The Sun · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 7

Another chapter in the romance of man's search for the world's bidden mineral wealth is opened by the recent development of a method of…

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N.S.W. State Coal Miners. General Dissatisfaction

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 16

Miners employed at the N.S.W. State Coal Mine at Lithgow have issued a protest against the refusal of the Railway Commissioners to hear their claims for…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 8

The following mine reports have been issued:--RAWANG TIN.--The bucket dredge resumed operations on January 24. A motor of the…

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"It's a Gold Mine" Wharf Stealing Charges 30 Chests of Tea

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 5

"What about getting some stuff off the wharf. It's a gold mine. I can easily place it." Charles William Webster, 36, master…

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Southern Miners. Threatened Strike. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 12

At a meeting of the miners' delegate board it was decided to request the Miners' Federal Council to allow Helensburgh miners to give 14 days' notice if substantial improvement is…

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Money and Mines City Gossip C.B.C. Share Values Commercial Bank's New Issue

The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 5

The fact that shareholders in the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney will be called upon to find £500,000 to finance the new issue of 40,000 shares…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 9

SOUTH LUCKNOW G.M. CO.--At the 125ft level the winze is gradually developing a news make of dcose arsenical pyrites ore. A sample about Sib. weight assays 20 14 oz. gold per ton…

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Coal Export

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 5

The amount of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle last week for places beyond the State amounted to 96,087 tons, of which…

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Captains Flat Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 11

The Minister fo Mines (Mr. Baddeley) has received a report on Captain's Flat mines by the Chief Inspector of Mines, J. B. Jaquet. The Captain's Flat mines were last worked…

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Captain's Flat Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 9

A report on the Captain's Flat Mines, submitted to the Minister for Mines, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, by the Chief inspector of Mines, Mr. Jaquet, states that these mines were last…

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Liquefaction of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 11

An engineering expert in Hamburg recently contributed an article to the "Times" in which it was stated that the Bergius process for the "liquefaction" of coal will shortly be…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10½ per oz fine, a rise of /0½ on the price ruliing since January 18…

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Mt. Pleasant Miners Balgownie

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 8

The election of officers of Mount Pleasant Miners' Lodge resulted: President, T. Thompson: vice-president. David H. [?]: secretary, Geo. Ashmore tall…

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[?] of Gold London, January 26

The Sun · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 13

[?] advanced another [?]d to-day, the move[?] making the price [?]4s 11d an oz. fire…

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Mining. Silver-lead Shares Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 11

Prices for shires in silver-lead companies, Mount Isa excepted, have been falling fairly steadily on the Sydney Stock Exchange throughout the nonth. The falls have chiefly…

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Their Own Paper the "Labor Daily" Western Miners' Tribute Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 3

At a social, at which the Zig-zag Lodge entertained representatives of the other western district lodges. Mr. E. Brooks, in proposing the coast…

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"Fight to a Finish" If Issue Is Forced Western Miners' Claims Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 5

MR. HAMILTON KNIGHT, chairman of the Western District of the Miners' Federation, speaking at a social at which the Zig-Zag Lodge…

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