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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Caledonian Collieries Nth. B.H. Div. Maintained North B.H. Dividend

The Sun · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 8

Notwithstanding the low levels which have been touched by market prices of lead during the past few months, North B.H. Company…

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In Danger E. Greta Mine Fears for Miners From Flood Above Newcastle

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 11

MORE than 800 feet of flood water is seething and bubbling in the old South Maitland mine. directly above the heads of men…

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Floodwaters Vanish Into Mine

The Land · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 7

There was an amazing sequel to a cloudburst at Lithgow. The floodwaters quickly converted Farmer's Creek into a raging torrent, from 15…

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Miners' Federation Reorganisation Scheme

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 4

The resurned annual meeting of the Miners Federation. at which representatives are present from the whole of the [?] district of Australia. [?]…

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Golden Mile Mines Resume

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 13

Our Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphs that operations on the mines along the Golden Mile have been practically at a standstill since the recent cyclone, which cut off the…

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Guinea Gold Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 13

In his report for the year covering operations in New Guinea to February 29, the field superintendent of the Guinea Gold, N.L. (Mr. E. Broughton Jensen), states that at present…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 13

A rally in the price's of lead and tin, though triffing, was welcomed in the share market yesterday. For Barriers a stronger influence on the day was the maintenance of the North…

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Coal Problems Taxation Question Conference Resumed

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 11

THE conference called by the Government to discuss ways and means of improving the present position on the coal fields was continued…

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Miners Go Red Revolutionaries Control Scottish Unions

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 3

Signal victories have been won in Scotland by members of the Minority Movement in the elections of the miners’ officials…

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Coal Conference Resumes -- Wine Men at the Wickets

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 36

OUR NEW AGENT-GENERAL. -- Sir George Fuller, snapped on the deck of the Tahiti yesterday, prior to leaving to take up his new duties in London. PUTTING "SPIRIT" INTO CRICKET. -- Hotelkeepers played wine and spirit merchants' travellers at the Cricket Ground…

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Rebuilding the Cobar Mine Work Pushed on No Water Available Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 1

work on the reconstruction of the Cobar mine is being pushed on apace. Seven tons of wood and steel are being used as a foundation for the building…

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Miners Leaders Counsel Surrender Militants Must Act. Rally To March 3rd. Conference

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 4

The position on the coalfields is worse to-day than at any time in the history o£ the industry. Great armies of unemplayed (4,000 in the Northern…

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The Blood on Coal 13 More Die for the Boss’s Profits

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 3

Thirteen miners were killed last week in an explosion at the Haig pit, Cumberland (England).Four were killed in the same pit last December…

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Colorado Miners Winning Financial Aid Needed Bosses Put Machine Guns in Streets San Francisco

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 3

The miners of Colorado are still carrying on their their heroic struggle against the mine-owners. The /position is improving…

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To Revive Coal Industry Big Conference Owners and Men to Recapture Lost Trade

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 6

"IF the Government can spend money In dealing out charity to unemployed members of society, which they do not ask for or require. It can spend…

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Rescuing Old King Coal As Employers and Employees Meet to Solve Problem Export Trade Wanted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 7

It is generally admitted that the coal industry in New South Wales is in a parlous state. Many mines are not working, and families are…

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Danger of Floods in Maitland Mines Water May Break Through From Abandoned Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 14

WEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- The exposure in the "Daily Telegraph Pictoral," going back to last year, of the danger of East Greta Colliery and…

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Depths of Misery Britain's Coal Industry Work Dwindles Miners' Dire Plight London

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 1

THE depths of despond to which the coal industry of Great Britain has sunk can be gleaned from official figures supplied to-day, as published in…

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13 Killed Explosion in Mine

The Sun · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 7

FORT SMITH (Arkansas), Friday. Thirteen miners were killed in an explosion in a coal mine here to-day…

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Mine Reports Alluvial Tin Subsidiaries

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 23

Alluvial Tin (Malaya), Ltd., has issued annual reports of three of its subsidiaries' covering the period ended June 30 last: -- KUALA KAMPAR. -- As the result of initial…

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