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Mining & the mines, 1942

4,235 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 212

Mine Destroyed Off Clovelly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 4

Members of the Royal Australian Navy yesterday destroyed a mine which has found off Clovelly on Sunday. The presence of the mine, which…

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Official Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 3

SOVEREIGNS, Mar. 16, £2/3/ (unch.). The price for gold lodged last Saturday and yesterday will be announced by the Commonwealth Bank to-day…

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Not One Mine Is Idle Today

The Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 7

All coal mines in Hew South Wales are working today. Shale miners and retort…

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Glen Davis Miners Get Working Concessions

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 5

THE Commonwealth Coal Reference Board today granted miners at Glen Davis oilfields, who returned to work yesterday, a 40-hours week, a…

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Govt. Orders Miners Back Glen Davis Plant Open

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 6

Strikers at Glen Davis shale oil refining plant resumed work at 4 p.m. yesterday…

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Central Gold Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 5

A meeting of shareholders of Central Gold Mines, N.L., in Adelaide yesterday decided to wind-up the company. The directors said that a first liquidation dividend should be…

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Gretamain Collieries

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

AT an extraordinary general meeting today shareholders of Gretamain Collieries Ltd. approved of a resolution providing for a return of 2s 6d per share in…

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Caledonian Collieries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 5

Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., proposes to pay a preference dividend of 3 per cent, covering arrears for the half-year ended June 28. 1930. This will leave outstanding arrears…

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Gretamain Collieries

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

AT an extraordinary general meeting today shareholders of Gretamain Collieries Ltd. approved of a resolution providing for a return of 2s 6d per share in…

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Gretamain Collieries

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

AT an extraordinary general meeting today shareholders of Gretamain Collieries Ltd. approved of a resolution providing for a return of 2s 6d per share in…

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900 Idle at Large Colliery

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

Nine hundred employees are idle today at Richmond Main colliery, Australia's biggest coal mine, because of a strike of…

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900 Idle at Large Colliery

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 4

Nine hundred employees are idle today at Richmond Main colliery, Australia's biggest coal mine, because of a strike of…

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900 Idle at Large Colliery

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

Nine hundred employees are idle today at Richmond Main colliery, Australia's biggest coal mine, because of a strike of…

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900 Idle at Large Colliery

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 4

Nine hundred employees are idle today at Richmond Main colliery, Australia's biggest coal mine, because of a strike of…

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900 Idle at Large Colliery

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

Nine hundred employees are idle today at Richmond Main colliery, Australia's biggest coal mine, because of a strike of…

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No Mines Idle Yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

Every colliery in New South Wales worked yesterday. Men who had been involved in stoppages at the Glen Davis shale works and at Coalcliff pit…

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May Apply New Rule to Colliery Canberra

The Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

The Government is considering applying Regulation 77 to clippers on strike at the Richmond Main Colliery…

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Central Gold Winds Up

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

SHAREHOLDERS of Central Gold Mines N.L. at a meeting in Adelaide yesterday voted for the voluntary liquidation of the company…

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Central Gold Winds Up

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

SHAREHOLDERS of Central Gold Mines N.L. at a meeting in Adelaide yesterday voted for the voluntary liquidation of the company…

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Central Gold Winds Up

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 8

SHAREHOLDERS of Central Gold Mines N.L. at a meeting in Adelaide yesterday voted for the voluntary liquidation of the company…

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