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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 216

Pensions And Shorter Hours Wanted By Miners Measures for Greater Safety Leaders Drawing Up Demands

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 5

A CAMPAIGN for shorter hours and additional safety is being organised by the Miners'…

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Section for Girls and Boys (Conducted by South West Wind.) Phantom Gold Chapter Viii. the Ghost Miner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 23

[?]FER caught up her dressing gown and [?]ped it on as she ran to the door. Her [?] was standing in the narrow hall with a [?]nd bottle in his hand…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 18

A1 CONSOLS.--720 tons for 1150z. 2dwt. gold. BUNINYONG RAND.--101 tons from 550ft. level, intermediate level and stopes, for 21oz. 8dwt, gold…

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Colliery to Re-open. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 11

The Abermain No. 2 colliery, which has been idle for nearly two years, is being prepared for the resumption of work in August. Coal-cutting machines of the latest type…

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Barrier Miners' 200 Shares

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 2

IT was announced last night that the Barrier Miners' Federation had taken out the first 200 shares of 2000 .which it has decided to take in…

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Mining Industry

Italian Bulletin of Australia · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 5

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Shorter Hours And Mines Drive

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 5

DETERMINED to will their big fight for shorter hours and safer, mines, State coal-miners have plans well under way for a campaign which may become Commonwealth-wide. The next few weeks will see mine…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 12

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended May 27 is at the rate of approximately £8/0/0½ per…

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Mining Fight in Preparation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 5

"The next few weeks will see the mineworkers prepared for a state of siege," said the general secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Orr) last night…

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Miners' Demands "Not Bluff." Preparing for Long Struggle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 22

A number of delegates to the Miners' Federation conference yesterday advocated a strike, if necessary, to enforce its demands for a 30-hour week without…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London,. May 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 16

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/5½ an ounce fine, unchanged since yesterday. BASE METALS. Base metals were quoted at noon to-day…

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Safe Mines Fight

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 8

IF a crisis is forced by the mine owners, a, quarter of a million pounds' worth of credits will be waiting to back…

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New Coal Seam. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 7

If expectations hi regard to a new drive are fulfilled, the life of the Clwydd colliery will.be extended for many years, it is stated. Mr. W. Campbell, manager of the mine, said…

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Important Development at New Cobar Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 22

New Occidental Gold Mines, N.L., reports that the diamond drill in New Cobar mine; 60 feet below No. 5 level, with 30 degrees depressed bore hole, passed…

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Miners' Fighting Fund. £250,000 Available

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 13

Delegates to the conference of the Miners' Federation in Sydney pledged themselves yesterday to recommend to their districts that all cash resources…

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"Gold Is Where You Find It"

The Sun · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 40

The artistic possibilities of the earth itself have been cleverly exploited in "Gold Is Where You Find It." That rich, tawny mud which…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, June 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 12

Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/7½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/51 yesterday. BASE METALS…

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Coal to Gas in Mine Moscow, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 3

FOR the first time in the world coal is being turned into gas at the coal face. This is happening at Gorlovka, in…

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Miners Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thursday. -- Anthony Husband, 40, a miner at Aberdare colliery, was struck by a fall of coal today. An artery in the left arm was severed…

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Miners Resent Court Findings

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 2

PERTH. W.A.—There is likely to be a strike of the collie miners. They are very dissatisfied with the Arbitration Court’s treatment of…

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