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Mining & the mines, 1941

3,912 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 196

Wallsend Coal Co. Dividend Raised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 7

The Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. reports a net profit of £12,500 for 1940, an increase of £1,250. In accordance with the…

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News Prom Mines Normanby Tin Life

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 11

Mr. G. M. Reld, who made an independent investigation of the Normanby Tin, N.L. property says the area on which production is to start is known as Higgins Gully…

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Further Loss for Adelong Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 11

Adelong Gold Estates. N.L., incurred a loss of £59 for the half-year to October 31, increasing the profit and loss debit to £1900…

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Wallsend Coal Profit And Dividend Higher

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 11

Disclosed profit of Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. was £12,500 for the year ended December 31,1940, an increase of £1000 on 1939 earnings…

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Wonthaggi Miners Return to Work. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 9

Acting on the advice of their federation leaders, the Wonthaggi members of the Miners Union to-day decided to return to work at the State coalmine. The two weeks' strike…

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Beaulivre Beaten Convincingly by Gold Salute

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 12

Gold Salute ran a sterling five-furlong trial at Randwick this morning, defeating Beaulivre very easily in 1.1 12 and emphasising further his claims as a Challenge Stakes candidate…

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Australian Gold Price. Sovereigns: £2/9/3, unch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 7

The price for gold lodged last Saturday and yesterday will be announced by the Commonwealth Bank to-day…

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Bulgaria Short of Coal. London, Jan. 20. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 10

The Director-General of the Bulgarian State Railways has declared that the necessity to save coal and also to repair locomotives has compelled the curtailment of…

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Three Strikes Ended Threats Of Other Stoppages lit Mines, Metal Work

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 7

A general coal strike may begin on the northern New South Wales coalfields next week unless the seniority dispute at the John Darling mine is settled within four days…

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Huge Gold Plow to U.s. Since Outbreak of War

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 11

Satisfactory though the recent increase has been, it is difficult to reconcile the comparatively low level of United States deliveries to Britain in the early months of the war with the…

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Norseman Gold Mines

The Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 11

Net profit of Norseman Gold Mines. N.L., for the year ended October 31. 1940. was £54,607. after charging £16,760 for depreciation and reserving £953 for taxation…

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Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

The quantity of coal hauled by the N.S.W. Government railways was 6,644,898 tons in the eleven months ended 30th November, 1940, compared with 7,819,539 tons in the corresponding months of 1939…

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Norseman Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 9

Norseman Gold Mines, N.L. for the year ended October 31. shows net proceeds of gold produced at £263,723, income from sources other than gold…

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Gold Salute's Form

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 11

Despite his 9.12, Gold Salute should win the £1000 Challenge Stakes on Saturday. His wins in the spring in the A.J.C. Shorts Handicap, Toorak…

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Gold Salute for Challenge

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4

It is unlikely that Rosehill stables will have a runner in the Challenge Stakes, to be decided next Saturday. Though it was the intention a…

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Norseman Gold Profit Lower

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 10

Norseman Gold Mines. N.L., earned a net profit of £54,607 for the year ended October. 31, 1940, after having charged £16,760 for depreciation and reserved…

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Contract Price of Coal Increased. Commissioner Approves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 13

One of the coal contractors to the Sydney County Council has been granted an increase of 1/6 a ton on the price of coal supplied with the approval of the Federal Prlces…

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Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

The quantity of coal hauled by the N.S.W. Government railways was 6,644,898 tons in the eleven months ended 30th November, 1940, compared with tons in the corresponding months of 1939…

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Pensions for Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 5

Compulsory retirement of coal and oil shale mine workers on pension at 60 is recommended by the State Royal…

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Broker to His Client J. & A. Brown Colliery Proprietors

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 15

CLIENT: You had no doubt that J. and A. Brown would at least maintain 5 per cent, in 1940. You had hopes that the dividend would be raised. You…

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