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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 213

Newcastle Coal Exports the Position in South Australia. 1,135,631 Tons for 1930

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 4

Exports of coal from, Newcastle for places beyond the State during last year amounted to…

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FINANCE Is the life-blood of Commerce and the chief essential to all successful business operations. Stocks and Shares Mines and Commerce

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 2

"COMMERCIAL AUSTRALIA" will seek to give its readers a standard of service in regard to Financial Information not hitherto attempted in this continent It will supply information from every Australian mainland capital from sources of undeniable…

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Mines and Mining Further Gains in Metals

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 12

The good gains noticeable in most metals on Monday were accentuated in the London metal market on Tuesday. Tin. however, lost ground. Closing (middle) quotations…

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Strike Talk Now Coal Miners Want Big Hold-up

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--All the big mining lodges and unemployed organisations on the coalfields are advocating a general strike…

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Grains of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 3

WOE to the soul which neglects to recommend to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace! "Be diligent to have noble desires;…

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Coal and the Government

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 8

It seems to be necessary to protest against the State Government's plans to put into effect, in the wrong way, one of the chief recommendations of the…

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A.W.U. and Miners

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 7

The A.W.U. connection to-day [?] its amendments to the [?] for the proposed merger between the A W U, and the Miners…

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Coalcliff Colliery Case Before Judge Beeby Wollongonh

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 5

The executive officers of the Miners Federation Southern District Miners, and Coalcliff Lodge have-been summoned to attend a compulsory conference under the…

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The Great Gold Find

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 10

Eighty years ago to-day, E. H. Hargraves discovered payable gold in Australia. Within three years £50,000,000 worth of gold was obtained. The above portrait is reproduced from the frontispiece of his book, "Australia and Its Gold Fields," published four years after his discovery…

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Topics Searching for Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 24

THE cultivation of a "gold sense" in the minds of the people is one of the objects of the Gold Search Association which has been formed to stimulate…

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W.a. Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 11

Our Kalgoorlie correspondent telegraphs that that during January the South Kalgurli Consolidated Limited milled 6855 tons of ore, for a yield valued at £14,308. Working costs…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 11

Mining share prices were higher yesterday. Base metal stocks rose in sympathy with a further recovery in oversea metals. Among Barriers, Norths, with 700 taken, showed a…

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Crash Ahead Miners' Strike Talk Cessnock

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 17

The move for a general strike in the coal industry, which is sponsored by Communists, is not likely to come to anything…

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Colliery Closing. 150 Men Affected. Mr. Hoare's Warning. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 10

Approximately 150 men will be affected by [?]he closing down of New Lambton Colliery. The decision was notified to the officers of the Miners' Federation by the secretary of the…

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Gold Lure Owen Ryan to Search

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 9

Manly Life Saving Club will lose the services of one of its best swimmers in Owen Ryan, who has shown such remarkable form in the surf this…

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Chinese Mine Disaster Explosion Entraps 3000 PEKIN

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 4

THREE thousand Chinese miners were entrapped by an explosion in the Japanese-owned coal mines at Fushun, 20 miles eastward of…

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London Mining Prices London

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 4

Sales of Australian mining shares on the Stock Exchange to-day were:— H H Prop., 10 St: North B H, 23.51; Great Boulder, 1/21; Lake View and Star, 8/11[?]…

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Ophir Gold Find. Eighty Years Ago To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 8

"I dug a panful of earth which I washed in the water-hole. The first trial produced a little piece of gold. 'Here it is!' I exclaimed; and I then washed five panfuls in…

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120 Awards A.w.u.--miners' Hitch "Hot for One Section"

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 13

Drastic amendments to the draft constitution for the A.W.U.--Miners Federation amalgamation were indicated when the…

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Wage Reduction. General Strike Favoured. Decision of Miners' Lodges. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1931 · page 10

The full weight of the most important group of miners' lodges on the northern coalfields has been thrown behind proposals for a Commonwealth-wide general strike…

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