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Mining & the mines, 1942

4,235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 212

Stop Press 'Phone: M2406 Colorado Mine Disaster

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday. -- An explosion from black damp killed 34 coal miners last night at Mount Harris (Colorado)…

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Watched Them Make "Silk" Stockings From Coal

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 24

They've made stockings from spiders' web's, from trees, stinging nettles, pine-apples, castor oil, and paint. Now they're making them from coal…

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All the Gold We Want from the Sea?

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 12

With about five million pounds worth of gold dissolved in each cubic mile of seawater, man has often sought a way of digging out this treasure. Using…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order on all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order on all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order oh all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order oh all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order on all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Gold Salute Shows on Track That Race Form Was Wrong

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Moderate times were the order on all tracks this morning. Champion three-year-olds Laureate and Skipton were each allotted a light task. GOLD SALUTE and Sun Valley at…

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Make Lucky Strike with Gold Head Two-year-old Hcp. 5f. Second Division (2.20)

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 29 January 1942 · page 3

DOUBLE BIRTHDAY: Won his race at Randwick several weeks ago in a most determined manner. Has gone along the right way since, and…

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Wallsend Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 3

Referring to a Miners' Federation claim that the only was to obtain peace in the coal industry was to nationalise it immediately. Mr. K. de Y. Seroggle, chairman…

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Wattle Gully Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 3

Because of a shcrtage of underground labour through [?]lisments, directors of Wattle Gully Gold Mines, N.L., state that output in insufficient to keep the battery running at its full…

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Miners Plan Bands of Guerillas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Aberdare Central Miners' Lodge resolved tonight to form a guerilla squad, and to approach the Government to…

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Bulolo Gold Suspends Work

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 7

Information has been received in Sydney that Bulolo Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., suspended production on January 26…

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Wattle Gully Gold Some Work Suspended

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 12

DIRECTORS of Wattle Gully Gold Mines N.L. have decided to suspend all but essential development work and to concentrate available…

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Wattle Gully Gold Some Work Suspended

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 12

DIRECTORS of Wattle Gully Gold Mines N.L. have decided to suspend all but essential development work and to concentrate available…

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Coal and Shipping Exchange a New Chairman

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 2

A meeting of the board of directors of the Coal & Shipping Exchange (Cardiff), Ltd., recently received the resignation of…

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Money and Markets Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Slightly Better Trade Indicated

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 12

Repeated industrial upsets and low prices for coal have meant poor returns to shareholders m the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. for…

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Money and Markets Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Slightly Better Trade Indicated

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 12

Repeated industrial upsets and low prices for coal have meant poor returns to shareholders m the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. for…

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Big Blasts To Wreck Goldfields Saboteurs' Blow at Rand Power Lines Out Of Action CAPETOWN

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1942 · page 4

Saboteurs have struck heavily in an attempt to cripple South Africa's rich gold-mining industry. Explosions during the night put out of…

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