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Mining & the mines, 1927

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 18

The following mine reports have been Issued: MOUNT BISCHOFF TIN MINING CO.--Operations during the six months ended December 31 yielded net profit of £11,708, after…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

B.H. South: 1/6 a share, and bonus of 6d a share payable February 15. Great Britain Sluicing:: 1/ a share; Tongkah Compound, No. 2: 1/ a…

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Gas Found. Wongawilli Colliery. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 15

Mr. J. Sweeney, miners' district secretary, stated to-day that gas had been discovered in the Wongawille mine, which had hitherth been regarded as a non-gaseous mine, and had…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 17

Gold was quoted in London on Thursday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10½ per oz fine, an increase of one farthing on the day…

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The Classification of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 19

WE may be permuted, perhaps, to repeat, by way of recapitulation, that analyses of coal usually specify the amounts of…

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All the Mines Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

THE Northern Miners' District Executive has been notified by the Central Executive that work will be resumed…

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Lithgow Coal Dispute Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

Although worn has been resumed at Lithgow Valley colliery, the dispute regarding the dismissal of a wheeler remains unsettled. A deputation lias…

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The Mines. To Reopen Monday. Official's Promise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 15

At a special meeting of the Northern Colleries Association yesterday the owners decided to re-open the mines for work on Monday morning…

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Mt. Bischoff Tin Mining Co

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 17

The accounts of the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Co. Registered, Tasmania, for the half-year ended December 31, show a net profit, after writing off £1418 for depreciation, of…

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Lithgow Coal Leases Three Months Grace Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

At Lithgow Warden's Court before Mr. G. James Metropolitan Warden, an application for partial suspension of labor condition was made by P.G…

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Uses of Brown Coal Company Formed. London, Feb. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 15

The Sensible Heat Distillation Company has been registered, with a capital of £250,000 Colonel J. T. C. Moore Brabazon, formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for…

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Financial. Gold and Prices. the Case for a Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 17

The publication of a record gold yield of the Transvaal last year adds to the interest of the discussion as to the future of prices and the influence of gold thereon. The case…

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Mines Work on Monday Official Note Government Pleased What Hold Up Meant

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 5

MEMBERS of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, which mot yesterday morning had before them the statement that the working…

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Back to Pits Mining Dispute Settled Work on

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 7

All coal mines which have been closed during the past week owing to the dispute between the employees and the proprietors are to…

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Is Australian Mining Decadent? to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 15

Sir,—I notice from the Press reports that Mr. A. C. Willis, Vice-President of the Executive Council and also lender of the miners in New South Wales, has been good enough to…

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Those Mine Stoppages Appportioning the Blame--what of the Owners ? Some Facts for the Public

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 11

NEWCASTLE. Wednesday. Proprietors blame the miners for everything. Loss of trade one shipping manager attributes ("Newcastle…

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Foreign Gold in British Strikes Bill Is Rejected Sritish Wireless press LONDON

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1927 · page 6

THE HOUSE of Commons today debated a Bill to prohibit any person or association from inviting, or accepting, or using funds from…

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Blood and Gold

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1927 · page 10

"MORAN of the Mounted." at the Empress Theatre, is an exciting story of red gold and red blood in the great northern barrens. Moran (Reed Howes)…

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Mining Business Dull

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1927 · page 15

Despite the price of tin being maintained above £300 on the overseas metal market, business in the mining section was particularly scanty. Barriers also…

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