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Mining & the mines, 1928

4,845 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 243

Miners' Accident Fund Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 6

Replying in the representation of Mr. H Booth. M.L.A., regarding ad[?] to the ben[?] under [?] Minery Accident Belief Fund. the…

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Junction North Mine to Close

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 22

BROKEN HILL, Friday -- The management of the Junction North Mine announced to day that productive operations…

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Financial. Gold Market Problems

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 19

With the business baromoter steady at a high point everybody is hoping for good weather in all kinds of markets, barring the political possibilities that are associated with…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 19

Coupled with improvement in the price of lead, the effect of the North B.H. dividend at an unchanged rate was seen in stronger prices for Barriers in yesterday's share…

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Gold and Blue Ball Enthusiastic Committee

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 11

MRS. MATT SAWYER presided at a meeting of the Country Women's Association executive, at the Ambassadors yesterday, when further plans…

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13 Killed in Mine Explosion Fort Smite, Arkaneas

Evening News · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 1

THIRTEEN miners ware killed in a [?] to-day…

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To Close Down Another B. Hill Mine Broken Hill

The Sun · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 8

The following notice was posted at Junction North mine yesterday:--"Productive operations at the mine and treatment plant will be suspended…

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[?] Everlasting Fire Started by Coal Strikeps 43 Years Ago

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 3

A veritable mouth of [?]ll is open in Ohio, says the New York "Times." It is the greatest fire on earth. From the hill tops one sees, as far as the…

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Junction North Mine. to Close on March 2. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 17

Notices posted about the Junction North mine to-day' state that operations will cease from midnight on Friday, March 2, owing to the adverse conditions now prevailing…

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Coal Industry. the Conference. Problems of Lost Markets. Question of Taxation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 17

The conference of representatives of the colliery proprietors and miners, which was arranged by the Government to consider the problems affecting the coal industry, in an…

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Alleged Gold Swindle Sale of Papuan Leases Two Arrests at Cairns

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 5

On the arrival of an overseas vessel at Cairns yesterday, two Sydney men were arrested and charged with, con[?] in d[?] a Sydney [?]…

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Ills of Coal Industry Conference Points Losses of Trade Research Bureaux Are Wanted

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 5

THE parlous condition of the coal-mining industry in this State was further considered yesterday by the conference convened by the…

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Idle Gold £2,000,000 Soviet Wealth They Can't Use It New York

The Sun · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 1

Gold bars to the value of £1,000,000, belonging to the Soviet Bank of Moscow, have been lying idle in the vaults of two…

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Oil Has Beaten Coal on High Seas Has Meant a Loss of 200,000 Tons to Trade IRRECOVERABLE!

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 3

The inroads made by oil upon the coal industry, and how irrecoverable trade had been lost in this direction, were emphasised at…

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Winning and Working the World's Coal Utilising the Experience of Other Countries The Baddeley Report (Continued), No. 13. Application to the Case of New South Wales

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 10

This instalment of the report is mainly devoted to confederation of producing good-quality coke from N.S.W. coals. Petalls are given of various experiment made with parcels of coal selected from different coal-bearing centres in this state. and…

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Has the Barrier a Goldfield? Took his Secret to the Grave Men Who Won't be Beaten

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 17

IF all the lost goldfields in Australia could be rediscovered, there…

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A Gold Mine Casque d'Or Wins Two in a Week

Truth · Sunday 26 February 1928 · page 2

CASQUE D'OR was awarded his monogram by some prophet. The cask of gold has been an equine gold mine He won at Menangle in good style on Tuesday and followed it up by taking the first division of yesterday's Ingleburn…

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Abermain Coal

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 February 1928 · page 27

At 20/6, this company's shares are well worth the attention of the investor prepared to hold them, despite the reduction in interim div. from 12½…

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Gold-mounted Fingers

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 February 1928 · page 23

MR. ISIAH CONSTABLE, a New Zealand bachelor, who had lived alone for 32 years, has been buried with 17 gold rings on his fingers…

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Thirteen Killed Mine Explosion VANCOUVER

Sunday Times · Sunday 26 February 1928 · page 6

A message from Fort Smith, Kansas, U.S.A., reports that thirteen miners were killed in a coal mine explosion there on Friday…

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