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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 22

SUGARLOAF TIN.--No 1 plant, 152 hours, 4706 cubic yards; estimated return, 4 tons tin oxide. NEW GUINEA OIL.--Ten-inch casing back…

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Coal Troubles Abroad

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 11

Australian collieries are not the only ones that have their troubles. Foreign coal owners have to contend against severe depression in their Industry, too…

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Mining Problem

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 6

WORDS spoken at Broken Hill on Thursday have an application beyond that mining centre. "If the facts that…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 19

Gold was quoted in London on Thursday, our correspondent cables, at 84/11½ per oz fine, an increase of three farthings on the price ruling since Tuesday last…

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The "Coal Digger" in America

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 11

WE have received from Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania', "The Coal Digger" newspaper, issued by the "Save the Union Committee" of the United…

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Mining Shares. Selayangs Bought

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 5

Haad Yai, Selayang and New Guinea Gold provided the only activity on Change yesterday, practically all other sales involving a bare marketable…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 19

Feeling for leading base metal interests strengthened in yesterday's share market, although turnover showed no improvement. Advances appeared in the most important…

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Is There Gold In The Desert?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 23

IVAN JONES is in from the country east of Laverton (W.A.)…

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Compensation Fails Barrier Sick Miners Broken Hill

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 6

At a meeting of the management committee of the Miners' Disease Compensation Association, it was mentioned that after the next…

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Winning and Working the World's Coal a Survey of the Coal Industry the Baddeley Report No. 21

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 10

THE present instalment gives Mr. Buddeley'a impressions of the coal mining Industry in the various countries visited by him, commencing with his impressions of Italian Labor under the depotle rule of Mussolini and his Blackshirt thugs…

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Wrong Again "Guardian" Sobs Over Miners Davies States Position

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 4

THE latest canard appeared in the "Daily Guardian" yesterday. This stated that the Miners' Union took as much as 7 a week from a miners'…

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Money Talks. See Your Broker About These--Newcastle Walls-end Coal, Newcastle Steam, Emu Gravel Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 10

ONCE upon a time when this company was incorporated, by Act of Parliament capital was £100,000. Times were good and in due course £60,000 capital was…

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Edie Creek Miners. Claims on Leaseholds. (By Radio.) Edie Creek

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 18

A deputation of miners asked the Warden for permission to peg claims on leaseholds, the warden refused the request. The miners held a meeting, and decided to…

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Strike Pay Issued Coal Cutting Machines at Kandos Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 8

Strike pay was issued to the men this afternoon in connection with the introduction of coal-rutting machines into the Kandos-Coomber Colliery at…

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WHAT McDONALD Dodges Coal Controversy Watered Stock and Waste in Working

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 6

In a statement made yesterday Mr. Pavies, general secretary of the Miners' Federation, makes a convincing reply to the criticisms…

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Stocks and Shares. Run on Banks Mining Market Firmer Higher

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 6

Commercial Bank of Sydney 16, Mercantile Mutual [?], Tooth 3d, Dalgety 26, Holden's is pref, 4d, Truth (2nd prof.)…

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Russian Gold. Funds in England. Aid for Agitators. Minister's Charge. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 17

In the House of Commons Mr G. M. Kindersley asked the Home Secreiary Sir William Joyn son-Hicks) whether, in view of the fact that Bank of England notes found on persons…

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The Coal War in America Incredible Brutality of Police and Thugs Women and Children Outraged U.s. Senators Visit to War Zone

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 April 1928 · page 11

THE long-drawn conflict between the Union Miners and the Coal operators (owners) in the United States is spread over an enormous…

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Looked Home Gold Tinge Beaten. Backers Tinged with Regret

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 April 1928 · page 8

Gold Tinge was made favorite in the Youthful Stakes. When she led a furlong from home, it looker guineas to gooseberries on her…

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The Oil All Wrong Really Good Thing Tricks Books Rumor Worth Weight in Gold

Truth · Sunday 22 April 1928 · page 2

SOME of the bookmakers who fielded on yesterday's Hurdle race at Randwick apparently got the wrong oil. THEY gambled on Realty's turn being some other day, and it was only when the gelding rushed to the front at the five…

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