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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 202

B.h. Proprietary. Gold Mining in W.a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 15

The advent of the Broken Hill Proprietary into gold mining in Western Australia has been watched with a good deal of interest, and it is anticipated by March that the…

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Mine Surveyors Examination

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 11

The Department of Mines notified last night that the following had passed the examination for certificates of competency as mine…

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Lithgow Mine Rates. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 14

Following cabinet's decision that the State mine shall be rateable for municipal purposes on the same basis as privately-owned mines, it is estimated that Lithgow Council will…

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Fatal Mine Accident. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 14

An accident occurred at Mount Isa mines yesterday afternoon resulting in the death of John Talbot, 39, a married man with three children. It is thought that Talbot was struck…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 14

The price of cold to-day was £6/0/9½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/0/1½ yesterday. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC…

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Sand Dumps To be Treated for Gold. KALGOORLIE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 8

Bands which were dumped as valueless in past years are now found to be worthy of attention with the price of gold doubled. A Perth syndicate headed by Mr. G. Ridgway…

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Coal Exports. 40,295 Tons for Week. Heavy Loading Expected

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 4

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week ended February 9, for places beyond the State was 40,295…

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Big Hopes Of Work It the Baerami Field Miners' Officials Saw Interested Parties Yesterday on Shale Oil Meeting Minister in Conference Next

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 5

HOPES that operations would shortly be resumed at Baerami shale fields were expressed yesterday by the executive officers of the…

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Had Gold Reserve in His Mouth Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 3

A man's face is seldom his fortune, but a visitor to Brisbane from the country recently discovered that he had an exceedingly…

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Mine Owners and Govt. at Odds Hint Given of State Control

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 2

PERTH, Saturday.--There is a possibility that the suggestion by the Royal Commissioner (Dr. Herman) on the collie coal industry, that State…

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Gretamain Collieries Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 11

Gretamain Collieries, Ltd., reports a net profit of £872 for the year ended November 30, compared with £1310 for the previous year. The only source of income is interest, which…

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Small Profit Gretamain Collieries Earns £872

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 10

Gretamain Collieries, Ltd., disclosed net profit of £872 during the year ended November 30 last year, against £1310 on the…

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Deadlock Over Coal at Perth Colliery Owners Send Prices Sky High Big Dispute Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 5

A PECULIAR situation has developed in the coal mining industry here, as a result of a dispute between the Railway…

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To Close All W. Aust. Coal Mines N.S.W. Supplies Perth

The Sun · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 7

FOLLOWING an abortive conference between the Commissioner of Railways and representatives of the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Saturday at the nominal rate of £6/0/5 per ounce fine, our correspondent cables, compared with £6/0/9½ per ounce fine on the previous day…

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Motor Spirit From Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 11

The Manchester Corporation Gas Committee have decided to undertake the extraction of benzole from coal on a large scale. The "Manchester Guardian" Commercial says the…

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Big Coal Cargo. Macaria for Manila

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 4

The J. & A. Brown Abermain-Seaham Collieries dispatched the American steamer Macaria last Thursday from Newcastle with 8100 tons of coal,…

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Minister's Body Down a Mine Shaft Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 5

ATTEMPTING to place some planking over a disused mine shaft, which he considered dangerous on account of its proximity to…

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Clergyman Killed. Fall Down Mine Shaft. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 9

The Rev. H. Stanley Jarvis, Methodist minister at Kooringa, fell down a shaft at the old Burra copper mine yesterday morning, and was killed…

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Newcastle Coal Weekly Export Improves Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 6

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped from Newcastle during the week for places beyond th[?] State was 54,959 tons, of which…

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