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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

1,206 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 22 of 61

Fatal Mining Accident Sydney

Leader · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 3

News has just been received of an awful accident at the South mine, Broken Hill. It is stated six men were killed and two others injured…

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Mining Accident. at Broken Hill. Six Men Killed, Two Injured. Broken Hill, Friday, 1 p.m

National Advocate · Saturday 25 May 1901 · page 2

News has just been received of a terrible accident at the South Mine, resulting in six men being killed and two injured. The accident was caused…

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Gold

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

On Saturday 36oz 13dwts. of gold were brought in to the Commercial Bank, and was the result of a small crushing of stone taken from Winters…

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The Log Paddock Mine

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

Arrangements have just been completed whereby work will be resumed at the Log Paddock mine. Until recently this property was in the hands…

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The Colliery Disaster. Three Rescued Alive. London, Friday night

National Advocate · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 3

Three of the men who were at work in the mine at Caerphilly when the explosion occurred were rescued alive. The bodies of many of the victims…

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A Mining Disaster. Catastrophie at Broken Hill. Tremendous Fall of Earth. Six Men Killed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 27 May 1901 · page 2

A shocking mining disaster occurred at Broken Hill on Friday last by a fall of earth whereby six men lost their lives…

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Disastrous Colliery Explosion. LONDON

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 3

An explosion has taken place in a colliery at Caerphilly, in Glamorganshire Wales, with the result that 70 men are entombed. Intense anxiety…

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Stoppage at Katoomba Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 3

Through what is put down as an act of vandalism, the Katoomba South mines were idle five days from Wednesday night week. At the small engine in the gully the fires are banked…

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The Mine Explosion. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 3

The majority of the men who had been at work in the mine at Caerphilly on the night shift had ascended before the disaster occurred, leaving seventy in the pit…

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Mining. Hill End

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 2

Carver and party, of the Consolidated, cleaned up on Saturday, having put through 70 tons of tips for ll½oz. Sutherland and Sullivan, at Chambers'…

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The Mining Accident. at Broken Hill. Recovery of the Other Bodies. Broken Hill

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 May 1901 · page 2

The men of the relief party, who had spared no sacrifice to push on the work of rescue, had the satisfaction of getting all the timber in shortly after…

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Mining. Hill End

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 2

Mining, as a whole, is very low, still there are a few on what promises to be payable stone. On Hawkins' Hill there are only four claims at work. First, the On Guard…

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Mining. Canowindra. Canowindra

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 2

The proprietors of the Temple Bar gold mine, cleaned up on Saturday night, the stone yielding 26dwt. per ton. This is the third crushing from…

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The Welsh Mining Disaster. LONDON

National Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1901 · page 3

It now transpires that 83 miners are entombed at Caerphilly. Thirty-eight bodies have been recovered…

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Serious Colliery Explosion. LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 3

By an explosion at the Dayton colliery, Tennessee, 21 men were killed and nine burnt grievously…

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The Miners' Congress. LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 3

Eight hundred and sixty four thousand votes of represented miners, at the International Congress, held in London, were recorded for, and 315,000…

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Warden's Court Thursday, May 30Th, 1901. (Before the Mining Warden, Mr. N. C. O'Neil, P.m.) Dredging Leases

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 30 May 1901 · page 2

W. H. Webb applied for two additional dredging leases in connection with the Fish River Gold Dredging Co., Locksley. The leases were for 50 acres and 20 acres…

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The Irondale Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 4

We hear that some six or eight Lithgow men have obtained a promise of work at the Irondale coal mine, near Piper's Flat, which it is expectcd will start-work to-day. Mr. D. Lawson i the…

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Broken Hill Mine

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 3

Through the late accident, the Broken Hill North Mine in to be shut down, which will put 100 men idle…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 31 May 1901 · page 4

ROCKLEY, Monday.--Mining matters are pretty dull, but expectations of something brighter before long are looked for from some of the now developments around the district…

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