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Mining & the mines, 1940

3,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 176

Mining. Barriers Ease. Gold Shares Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

Business in the mining share market yesterday continued to be of limited extent. Gold shares were again Arm. Most…

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Cable Aflame in Mine

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 7

THIRROUL, Monday.--The lives of 200 miners in the Excelsior Main tunnel were endangered this morning when an electric cable took fire in…

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Daily Miners Pensions Inquiry

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

UNSUCCESSFUL pleas were made yesterday by representatives of coalmine, proprietors to…

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Gold Salute Plans

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Monday. Gold Salute a likely runner in the Oakleigh Plate…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/, unch. (Commonwealth Bank). GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/5[?], unch…

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Rich Gold Ore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

One hundredweight of stone broken from the Blue Peter mine at Tuckanarra, Meekatharra (W.A.), and put through the battery, has yielded 237oz 14dwt of gold. More than…

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Pure Gold's Penalty

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 20

Oakleigh Plate candidate Pure Gold has incurred a 4lb. penalty for his win in the Marine Handicap at Williamstown on Saturday. His weight is now 8.7…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

GRANITES DEVELOPMENT.—Week ended Feb. 8: D[?]edged 132 hours treated [?],000 cuble yards, estimated yield gold 7.[?]oz tin concentrates l[?], estimated value £61…

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Moves To Settle Mines' Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 11

Moves were made in Sydney And Lithgow yesterday to settle the coal-mining dispute before it develops into a general strike. No action was taken, however,…

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Public Interest Demands Coal Conference Critical

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 12

THE mining unions and the coal-owhers seem to regard New South Wales as a boxing-ring…

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T.B. Menace Miners, Girls, Victims Canberra

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 3

MINERS and young women engaged in industrial occupations are particularly susceptible to…

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T.B. Menace Miners, Girls, Victims Canberra

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 2

MINERS and young women engaged in industrial occupations are particularly susceptible to…

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A.W.U. to Give Aid To Miners

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 8

COOLANGATTA, Mon. THE A.W.U. Convention will hear the president of the Miners…

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Mine Crisis Union’s Prepare for Fight Sydney, Feb

Tribune · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 1

“The combined mining unions have come to the conclusion that the dispute has gone far enough. “They have decided to issue…

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Pensions for Miners. Inquiry Opens. Owners' Postponement Move Fails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 5

Mr. Justice J. A. Ferguson and Messrs. C. F. Mallett and F. C. Maxwell, at their first sitting yesterday as a Royal Commission to inquire into the compulsory…

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Gold Salute Spoiled Fine Track Trial Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 22

Gold Salute spoiled what would have been a high-class gallop over half a mile at Caulfield to-day by attempting to run wide on the turn-- a development of waywardness which he indicated before leaving…

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Some Excluded From 40-Hour Mine Week Judge Beeby Tells Reasons

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 5

Chief Judge Beeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, refused to grant a 40-hour week to members of craft unions working above ground at coalmines. The application for exclusion of craft unionists from…

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Further Drop in Bond Yield Arahura Gold Makes Good Headway

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 16

Bank shares continued to strengthen on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day. Most sales were at increased levels. The general tone of the market was firm…

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Mines Idle. One-day Strike To-morrow. Unions' New Policy in Force. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 13

The first of the weekly one-day stoppages which the combined mining unions are organising will take place on Wednesday…

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Mining Unions Willing to Parley Ready to Meet Hughes While Men Work "Owners' Bias"

Daily News · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 7

"SINCE the mine-owners will not meet us, we have no objection to meeting the Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, and arriving at a satisfactory agreement with him…

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