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Mining & the mines, 1943

3,898 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 195

430 Miners Strike in the North

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 February 1943 · page 4

ABOUT 430 miners at Stockton Borehole colliery, which produces about 1100 tons of coal daily, struck today…

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Over 680 Miners Idle

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 4

WITH 435 miners on strike at Stockton Borehole colliery over an award concerning working conditions and 250 idle at Corrimal it is…

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Over 680 Miners Idle

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 3

WITH 435 miners on Stockton Borehole colliery over an award concerning working conditions and 250 idle at Corrimal it is…

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Over 680 Miners Idle

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 4

WITH 435 miners on strike at Stockton Borehole colliery over an award concerning working conditions and 250 idle at Corrimal it is…

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Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 10

NORTH DEBORAH reports the recovery of 414¼oz. gold from the treatment of 724 tons of material. BURBIDGE (W.A) reports: Treated 2510…

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Exempt Mining Profits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 3

The exemption from taxation of 20 per cent, of mining profits will be limited to the profit derived from production of prescribed base metals or…

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Metropolitan Mining and

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 10

DEVELOPMENT,--Ore reserves having been reduced to 700 tons and the size and grade of the ore shoot not having been maintained at depth, the directors have decided…

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Over 680 Miners Strike in N.s.w

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 2

ABOUT 685 miners are idle at two mines on the northern and southern coalfields. Loss in coal production is estimated at about 1900…

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"Waste" in Mine Methods

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 10

Wasteful mining methods are criticised by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) in a booklet, "Coal." In a complete survey of the coal…

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Sesame Gold Loss

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 13

A loss of £177 was sustained by Sesame Gold, N.L., for the year ended October 31 last. The Florence mine at Daylesford was…

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Metropolitan Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 5

After treatment of the ore reserves of 700 tons remaining at June 30 the directors of Metropolitan Mining ana Development Co., Ltd. (W.A.), proposed that the company be…

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Wastage of Bunker Coal

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

In a letter to "The Times" on the question of not fitting superheaters in steamers now being constructed, Mr. E. H. Watts has the following comment:— "Probably the most important, it not the only, wastage of coal…

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Mine's 19 Years Non-stop

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Muswellbrook Colliery has worked for 19 years without a stoppage caused by a local dispute…

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Mine Wheelers Go Into Camp

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

LITHGOW, Saturday.--Miners' officials stated yesterday that four Wallerawang colliery wheelers who were charged at Lithgow Court…

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Baddeley Has Plan for Coal Industry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 1

ESTABLISHMENT of a Coal Commission, which would be entrusted by Parliament with power to implement necessary reforms in the coal…

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Baddeley Has Plan for Coal Industry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 1

ESTABLISHMENT of a Coal Commission which would be entrusted by Parliament with power to implement necessary reforms in the coal…

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Baddeley Has Plan for Coal Industry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 1

ESTABLISHMENT of a Coal Commission, which would be entrusted by Parliament with power to implement necessary reforms in the coal…

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Baddeley Has Plan for Coal Industry

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 1

ESTABLISHMENT of a Coal Commission, which would be entrusted by Parliament with power to implement necessary reforms in the coal…

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The Luck of IT No. 69. Candle Coal

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 10

GLEN DAVIS, Australia's oil- from-shale job, owes existence to James Young's three slices of luck nearly a century…

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Gold-dust and Steel-filings the Wild Ride

The Methodist · Saturday 13 February 1943 · page 2

I hear in my heart, I hear in its ominous pulses All day, on the road, the hoofs of invisible horses, All night, from their stalls, the importunate pawing and neighing…

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