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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 213

Coal Trade Improves

The Sun · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 8

Newcastle, Friday.--An average of 50,000 tons of coal a week has been exported from Newcastle in the past three weeks. It is expected that the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 13

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10¾ per oz. fine, a decrease of /0[?] on the day…

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Wheeler Must Pay That £1 . Manager Adamant Eighteen Pence Worth of Coal Miners Resent Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 8

Much resentment is expressed by South Coast miners against the action of the Mount Keirs colliery management in endeavoring to compel a wheeler to pay £1…

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Repudiated by Miners Bondy Hoabe Majority of Miners Vote Against Hoare and Kellock

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 6

STILL HOLDS OFFICE Although an Overwhelming majority of the miners in the Northern field are opposed to him, and by their…

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Sinister Scheme to Enslave Miners Baddeley Preparing on Davidson Coal Commission Report Rank and File Must Act Now!

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 6

J. M. Baddeley, N.S.W. Minister for Mines is at present preparing a bill to cover the suggestions and directions made by the Davidson Royal…

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Mining the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 13

Prices were irregular in to-day's mining share market, on a restricted turnover. Barriers were mainly easier, to bear out the trend of the previous afternoon's quotations…

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Mining Shares in London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 16

LONDON, Wednesday.--Sales of Australian mining shares on the London Stock Exchange to-day were:--B.H. Proprietary, 01112: B.H. South, 25; Sons of Gwalia…

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One Killed Vic. Mine Explosion Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 7

One mine deputy was killed and five other deputies were injured, one of them critically, in a gas explosion 900 feet down the…

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10 P.c. Cut Miners Will Oppose

The Sun · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 7

The Miners' Federation has been summoned to appear before the Federal Arbitration Court next Monday to show cause why the recent award…

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Miners Stranded at Newnes Question in Assembly

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 8

The rush of unemployed to the Newnes shale[?]oile field was the subject of questions in the Legislative Assembly yesterday…

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United States Coal. Failing Influence of Unions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 10

Dr. F. R. E. Mauldon, senior lecturer in economics, University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Rockfeller Foundation, 1930, who arrived at Sydney yesterday on the Narkunda,…

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Big Coal Cargoes. Two Steamers Leave Newcastle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 4

During the last few days two big cargoes of coal have been despatched from Newcastle to Eastern ports. In fact, these are the first cargoes of…

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News From the Mines Big Rise in Tin

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 16

All metals, with the exception of copper, which was fractionally easier, continued to make good headway on the London metal market on…

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The Man in the Street. Gold Exports

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 6

Sir,--The "Sydney Morning Herald" has announced that during the past year Australia exported nearly £17,000,000 in gold…

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Mine Explosion at Wonthaggi Man Dead : Five Others Injured [?] UNDERGROUND [?]

Evening News · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 5

WHEN a gas explosion [?] at a depth of 900 it in the [?] coal [?] at Wonthaggi to-day. [?] Elkm, 63,…

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In the Fields of Fancy Histroic "Shorts" Glimpses of Australia's Romantic Past Gold Discoveries in Victoria Gold, Precious Yellow, Glittering Gold! What Can It Not Do and Undo?

The Land · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 2

The exodus of gold-seekers from the Port Philip district to the Sydney side alarmed its leading men, for they were aware of the necessity of an increasing…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Beard Watson No Pref. Dividend

The Sun · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 5

Another Cautious Directorate "Having regard to the general conditions of business experienced during the last six months and the…

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Rich Gold Find Shaft Opened After 30 Years DORRIGO

Evening News · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 7

Joe Cork and T. D. Moseley arrived at Dorrigo last night with two fine samples of stone, studded with free gold obtained from an old shaft near…

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Miners Again Ten Per Cent. Cut Sought Summons Is Served Hearing on

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 7

It would appear that the miners are now to bear the brunt of the 10 per cent. offensive against the wages of workers…

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Of Such Stuff Are Gold Seekers New Guinea Bound in Thirteen-ton Ketch Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 7

BOUND for the Waria River in New Guinea, in search of gold, the 13-ton auxiliary ketch Scalark left Newcastle this evening…

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