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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 13

The mining share market was quiet yesterday. Turnover was below even recent averages, and prices varied from firm to slightly weaker. Mount Morgan copper, weakening /l½ to 15/,…

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A Fatal Mistake. Man Killed at Colliery. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 11

Falling 250 feet down the tunnel at Ayrfield No. 1 colliery to-day, Edward Killer (21) was killed instantly. He had stopped out of the cage, and…

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Dashed to Death Down Colliery Shaft Miner Pitches Head-foremost 200ft

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 3

WEST MAITLAND, Monday. -- A wheeler at Ayrfield No. 1 colliery met a frightful death when he was hurled 200 feet down the shaft of the mine this…

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Work Resumed Broken Hill Mine Fire Broken Hill

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 12

The general manager of North Broken Hill, Ltd., (Mr. C. J. Emery), reported to-day that work underground has been resumed in the Blackwood…

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Mine Sensation Hreat to Shoot Manager Rushed Cessnock

Evening News · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 10

I WILL drill a bok in some of you if you don't get back." It is stated that, not until he had made this threat,accompanied by the…

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With Pistol Miners Held Back Maitland Scene West Maitland

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 13

Six colliery surface men to-day attacked the miners whose employment is resented at Hebburn No. 2…

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Mining Tragedy. Echo of Other Days. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 8

In the course of sluicing operations last week at Eldorado the Cocks Pioneer Company discovered at a depth of 70 feet some relics of a mining tragedy which occurred in 1868,…

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Coal Marketing. New British Scheme. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON. Jan. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 11

A full meeting of representatives of the South and West Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalowers Associations was held in Sheffield yesterday for…

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Lockout and Strike Swedish Coal Stoppage British Owners Blamed Stockholm

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

FOLLOWING the lockout by coal mineowners in Central Sweden, 4200 miners employed at 23 of the mine, have struck…

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Marts-money-mines and Maritime No Change Price of Potatoes Onions Are Dearer

Evening News · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 5

TASMANIAN [?]MARCK potatoes are £1 ton chaper, but Bro[?] are unchanged at £8 ton The drop in the price of Bl[?]marcks is due to the fact that…

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Money, Mines & Merchandise City Gossip Loan Outlook B.I.S.N, CO. Money Market Prospects

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 4

Conditions in the money markets in most of the Australian capital cities are understood to be "fairly comfortable." The banks are stated to have…

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German Loan for £13,000,000 to Make Oil From Coal Big Scale Production Berlin

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 1

YESTERDAY'S meeting of the German Dye Trust sanctioned the Issue of a loan of £13,000,000. at 6 per cent., convertible into stock…

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Log of Claims Is Decided on by Conference Miners' Pay, Conditions and Hours Political Outlook Labor's Hope for Fed. Victory Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 6

A comprehensive log of claims for the coal-mining industry was agreed upon at a conference at Newcastle Trades Hall of…

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"King Coal" a Colliery's Claim Ash and Carbon

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 21

Mr. W. P. Judd, managing director of Austral Investments, Ltd., writes:-- The articles appearing under the above heading in recent issues of your…

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Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 20

LONDON, Monday.--Fine gold is quoted at 8411 per ounce. NEW YORK, Monday.--Gold stocks of the United States, decreased by 151,000,000 dollars…

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Newcastle Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 17

Newcastle Coal-mining Company, Ltd., with receipte of £25,477, and working expenses of £27,709, showed a lose for the six months ended December 31 of £2232, against a loss the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 17

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 84/11 per oz fine, a [?]all of /0½ since Friday…

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Broken Hill Miners. Managers' Offer Rejected

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 8

At a meeting of the Broken Hill Industrial Council held last Thursday night the Unions affiliated with the Council reported the rejection of the proposals by…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 17

A fall in London prices for tin and a rise in quotations for other base metals both found direct reflection in 'share values in yesterday's mining market. Rates for tin…

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Quiet Now Hebburn No. 2 Colliery Guarded Home West Maitland

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 11

J. J. Cram, the man against whom the miners demonstrated yesterday at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery, was not seriously injured, though he was struck…

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