Science:-- Did You Know? Gold leaf
Is the gold leaf used in gilding and in signs on shop-windows made of gold? Yes. Gold is the most…
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U.S. Miners Scorn Work Order Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.— U.S. soft-coal miners yesterday said they would ignore both a court order and the…
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PITTSBURGH, Feb. 13 (A.A.P.).—Striking coalminers to-day defied the back-to-work orders by the U.S. Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven-day Week For Miners
CESSNOCK, Monday. —The miners of the big Aberdare Extended colliery decided to-night to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. miners defy leader
NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.).--Pittsburgh striking miners yesterday defied, the back-to-work order from the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Award To Mine Deputy
A former coalmine deputy, permanently disabled by "dusted" lungs, was awarded £1850 today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Award To Mine Deputy
A former coalmine deputy, permanently disabled by "dusted" lungs, was awarded £1850 today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Tribunal Reserves Rescue Decision
The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. Gallagher, yesterday reserved decision on a claim by the Miners' Federation for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →12 mines idle in NSW today
Twelve mines idle today because of flooding and industrial issues lost output of more than 4000 tons…
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KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--A minor gold rush has begun in the Higginsville district, where well-known prospector Jock Walls uncovered £1100 worth of gold in one hour last week. Prospectors are rushing from as far away as 400 miles…
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KALGOORLIE, Tuesday. -- A minor gold rush has begun in the Higginsville district, where well-known prospector Jock Walls uncovered £1100 worth of gold in one hour last week. Prospectors are rushing from as far away as 400 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich New Find Starts Gold Rush
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--A minor gold rush has begun in the Higginsville district, where well-known prospector Jock Walls uncovered £1100 worth of gold in one hour last week. Prospectors are rushing from as far away as 400 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich New Find Starts Gold Rush
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--A minor gold rush Has begun in the Higginsviile district, where well-known prospector Jock Walls uncovered £1100 worth of gold in one hour last week. Prospectors are rushing from as far away as 400 miles…
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KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.-- A minor gold rush has begun in the Higginsville district, where well-known prospector Jock Walls uncovered £1100 worth of gold in one hour last week. Prospectors are rushing from as far away as 400 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →1950 Coal Output Is Cut 149,540 Tons By Rain And Strikes
The spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said last night that heavy losses of coal this year had been caused not only by strikes, but by weather conditions. Since January 16. when miners resumed after the Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Electric Coal Mine
Work has recently begun in Central England on a new all electric model pit with a shaft of 24 ft. in diameter—the largest, in the West Midlands Division. The new pit will be operated by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Strike Over Rates
LITHGOW.—The second strike for a 1/- a ton rise in hewing rates in a fortnight has been staged here, this time by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Coal Famine Looming
Given reasonable freedom from serious disputes, said the Coal Board chairman early in January, "coal production this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Miners Fight Sackings Lithgow.—
Miners at the Steelworks Pit came home on Monday in protest against the sacking of a man who had been off some…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Balmain Mine Danger To Schoolchildren
THE Balmain Trade Union Committee is campaigning to have the old Balmain mine resumed for a park…
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