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Blue Mountains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

11 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Our Coal and Shale Mines

Blue Mountain Gazette · Friday 9 January 1903 · page 3

The arrival of a large number of new skips, and the almost daily past sage of loads, of sleepers through the town have been the cause of the…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 3

There has for a considerable time been various opinions ae to whether the Katoomba South Mines will be starting again. Nothing can be…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Friday 27 February 1903 · page 3

That the mines will soon be in f[?]ll swing again is evidently now beyond doubt. We are in a position to state on the best of authority that the A…

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The Katoomba Mines

Blue Mountain Gazette · Friday 20 March 1903 · page 7

On Monday the engine recently erected for the A.K.O. and M. Co. was started. The necessary foundations and all preliminary connections of…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Thursday 9 April 1903 · page 3

Something like a strike has occurred at the mines. We recently reported that some eight or ten men complained to the manager that the pay was insufficient. Nothing was…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 4

Things are just the same at the Ruined Castle as regards the shale mines, and work, of shale getting is still at a standstill. Let us hope that next week some mutually…

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Lost in the Mine

The Mountaineer · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 4

When it was reported that four men were lost in the Katoomba South Mines on Thursday last, r[?]r was rif[?] as to all so[?] of calam[?]es,…

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Work at the Mines

Blue Mountain Gazette · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 5

Work in connection with the local coal and shale mines goes on steadidly but there is no immediat prospect of developing into anything very big…

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Lost in the Goal Mine

Blue Mountain Gazette · Friday 17 April 1903 · page 5

A wave of excitement prevailed in. Katoomba on Thursday morning last when the news that four men were lost in the local coal mine became…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Friday 22 May 1903 · page 3

Things are still improving at the Katoomba South mines. Some 25 miners are at wort, and fully 60 hands are employed altogether. It…

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Katoomba South Mines

The Mountaineer · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 3

A report gained currency this week-that the the above mines were to be shut down. This no doubt originated through seeing the skips idle for several days. We are…

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