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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Spanish Gold for Training Ship

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

A CHEQUE for £113 118 sent by the Madrid Government for the expenses of the Spanish naming ship has been cashed in Sydney. The sum of…

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Mining Invention. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 10

Mr. J. W. Sutherland, manager of the Golden Horseshoe, gold mine, has designed an improved wet declasslficr to operate without mechanical power. He is of the opinion that…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 11

The mining share market opened quietly yesterday after the holiday intermission. Base metal interests had little support. Tindredging interests reacted in sympathy with…

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Alluvial Gold at Orange. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 10

Gold-mining is about to be revived in the Orange district, alluvial gold having been discovered in the valley at Ammordown, two miles from Orauge, by a prospector named…

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Western Miners' Delegates to Central Council Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

A ballot of the western districts miners (Mudgee Hue) for representatives to central Council of the W.l.U. of A. (Mining Department) for 1929…

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Traces of Gold Prospector's Find Orange

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 20

Andrew Dowd, a prospector has come across gold-bearing wash on "Ammerdown," on the Molong-road, two miles from Orange, the property…

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Struck Gold Orange Sensation Prospectors' Claim Orange

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 10

ANDREW DOWD and H. Delbeaux created a sensation in Orange yesterday by reporting that they had struck gold on the Ammerdown estate, two miles…

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Earnings of Miners Press Lies Refutation by Lodge Secretary Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

THE deliberate misrepresentation of the capitalist Press of the earnings of miners has called forth a convincing reply from Mr…

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Woman Doctor's Heroism Crawls With Priest to Rescue Miners LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

"She did wonders down there," said a priest, Father Galbraith, detailing the heroism of Dr. Anne Mitchell, who accompanied him in…

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"On Rose Bush" His Gold Watch "Sordid Transaction —S.m. [?]

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 11

THERE is evidence here of [?] sordid transaction [?] water[?] will hang on rose [?] defendant is discharged, [?]…

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Treated with Scorn Attack on "L.d." "Jazz Journalism" Miners Sees Through Trickery Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

THE attempt of the"Telegraph Pictorial"and "Newcastle Morning Herald" to delude the minors and members of other…

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Moorefield Candidates in Action Valley's Trial Out of the Barrier Gold Cup Gallops

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

AFTER beneficial showers of rain, the going on the course proper at Randwick to-day was in nice order for galloping and some smart trials…

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Starve or Steal! Outlook for Workless Coal Trade Will Not Revive Baddeley Is Definite Weston

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

ALTHOUGH there is a general belief that the coal trade will brighten in 1929, I don't think it will revive to any great extent,"…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Manly Ferries Dividend Increased Pt. Jackson and Manly S.S. Pays 4 p.c

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 8

Prosperity in increased measure evidently attended the operations of Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Co. Ltd, during the first half of the year…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 16

SATUPULO.--For December, recovered 21½ tons of tin from 95,000 yards in 516 hours. Time lost in turning dredge and overhauling. KOPAH TIN.--All dredge material delivered…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 17

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 84/11½ per ounce [?]e, an increase of one farthing since Thursday…

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Coal Is Temporarily Dethroned

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 6

THE king has fallen. No longer is coal the essential of all industries. In our aim at higher standards of living and comfort we forgot that transport is much easier than it was a quarter of a century…

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Political Asides Fishing Camp to Our Coal Difficulties Will New Year Bring Mining Peace Premier's Task

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 7

While thousands of jobless miners eke out a miserable existence with their families on the dole, it may be a useful New Year…

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The Singing Gold Chapter XXIII

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 14

WHEN Clippings came back with our rugs and Pies, having recovered sufficiently to see certain gleams of humour in the affair, I told him of what had happened, but he saw nothing…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 17

Business expended in yesterdry's share market to normal dimensions. Prices of base metal interests hardened in response to so[?] recovery in metal prices overseas. Barriers…

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