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Mining & the mines, 1943

3,898 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 195

Disputes, Breakdowns Hold Up Eight Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1943 · page 3

EIGHT mines employing 2700 men and producing about 7000 tons of coal ate idle today because of industrial disputes and mechanical…

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Disputes, Breakdowns Hold Up Eight Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1943 · page 5

EIGHT mines employing 2700 men and producing about 7000 tons of coal are idle today because of industrial disputes and mechanical…

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Disputes, Breakdowns Hold Up Eight Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1943 · page 5

EIGHT mines employing 2700 men and producing about 7000 tons of coal are idle today because of industrial disputes and mechanical…

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Turf Topics Gold Head's Glittering Display

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1943 · page 5

"If there was no doubt about his inning a mile and a quarter I would that he was a certainty," said a Rosehill racing man last Saturday,…

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Surfing Appliances. "Gold Mine" to Proprietors

The Propeller · Thursday 4 March 1943 · page 3

"The request this company has made to the council is a brazen one, and that's praising it. They are making a gold mine out of these…

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Five Mines Idle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1943 · page 7

Five mines were idle in New South Wales yesterday as a result of strikes. About 1,140 employees were involved and the loss in production amounted…

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Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 March 1943 · page 8

NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS: Water races and plant at the alluvial deposits evacuated since Japanese invasion of New Guinea could be rehabilitated, but resumption at Golden…

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Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 March 1943 · page 8

AUSTRAL N.Z. MINING reports for the 28 days ended February 20: Treated 283,000 cubic yards for return of 942oz. bullion, HILL 50 GOLD MINE reports for period…

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Position of N.G. Goldfields

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1943 · page 7

The fact that New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., could not maintain the mines while hostilities continued made it almost…

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Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 10

KUALA LUMPUR TIN.----Accounts for the year to September 30 last show the company to be possessed of £64,262 of liquid assets in Australia. Tin Buffer-pool stocks…

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Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 10

KUALA LUMPUR TIN.--Accounts for the year to September 30 last show the company. to be possessed of £64,262 of liqui assets in Australia. Tin Buffer-pool stock…

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Cannot Forecast N.g. Gold Future

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 10

While hostilities continue it is almost impossible to forecast the outlook at the Golden Ridges Mine. The chairman of New Guinea…

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N.g. Goldfields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1943 · page 3

The mine was in good condition when closed down, but much depended on whether exposure would damage the workings and render resumption of operations unprofitable. Water…

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Red Sappers Probe For German Mines

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 4

USING SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, Russian sappers probe for enemy mines in No Man's Land. Retreating in Southern Russia, the Germans have sown thousands of mines, just as Rommel did as he fled from the Eighth Army…

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Red Sappers Probe For German Mines

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 4

USING SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, Russian sappers probe for enemy mines in No Man's Land. Retreating in Southern Russia, the Germans have sown thousands of mines, Just as Rommel did as he fled from the Eighth Army…

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Gold-dust and Steel-filings

The Methodist · Saturday 6 March 1943 · page 2

Books are the treasured wealth of the world, and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Their authors are natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors…

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Axis gold jingled in Arab pockets

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1943 · page 1

For the sand-stung British Eighth Army in south-east Tunisia, the toughest tasks lay ahead…

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Gold map of Australia is girl pilot's identity disc LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 7 March 1943 · page 8

SMILING, brown-eyed 24-year-old Diana Barnato hasn't been to Australia, but she wears a small golden map…

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Miners' Stoppage Expected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1943 · page 7

"WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—As a result of miners' aggregate meetings to-day, it is probable that all coal mines of the South…

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Commercial Gas in Balmain Mine

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 March 1943 · page 8

WITHIN a fortnight, the Natural Gas and Oil Corporation hopes to obtain methane gas from Balmain Colliery in Sufficient quantities for commercial distribution, it was stated today by Mr. J. H. Tonkin, M.L.C., engineer-in-charge of the…

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