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Request increase in miners' wages. - No attention, up to the present, has been paid by mine managers of big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes, to demand for a dollar increase in the daily wage of men employed. The companies usually act in concert on such matters but it is said today no conference...
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production-aid water power. Boise, (AP)-With a federal loan to aid Idaho mining its goal, a state committee began drafting plans … for an application to the RFC for an $11,000,000 loan to put silver and gold mining enterprises in operation. The …
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Sidney miners take wage cut - Men employed by the Sidney mine have voluntarily accepted a 50-cent per day reduction in wages, it is reported at Wallace today, and it is possible this is only the first of the companies of the Coeur d'Alenes which will cut wages as a result of the reduction in the...
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Banner week in stock value. - 4345,227 sales total in last five days on standard stock exchange. - Ten issues make gains. - Led by Pend Oreille, Grandview and Tamarack -- Cork, Jim, Montana and Sherman up. - The volume of trading on the Standard Stock exchange in the last five days of the week...
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This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor … productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP … average MFP growth in Australian mining based on the dual measure of technical change is nearly 2% over the sample period 1974 …
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to easily extract data; the field has little confidence in data; people spend more time mining data than analyzing data …
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The main objectives of this study were first, to review and analyze several economic assessments of Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy systems, and second, to reformulate an economic model for HDR with revised cost components. The economic models reviewed include the following studies...
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The Intermountain Center for Mining Research and Development (ICMRD) was established with the Idaho National Laboratory … (INL) as the cornerstone, and with regional universities, mining schools, and the Western mining industry as full members …. In aggregate, the members provide the strong mining research and development capabilities and knowledge that are …
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fatality rates by showing the riskiest industries to be mining; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; construction …
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