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

Mining & the mines, 1903

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United Spates and Coal. a Rebate Bill. London

Leader · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 2

United Stated Congress has almost unanimonaly passed a Rebate Coal Duty Bill…

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American Coal Famine. REBATE Of Duty Bill. London

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 3

The United States Congress has almost unanimously passed a rebate of Coal Duty Bill…

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Chamberlain in Africa. Address to Chamber of Mines. London

Leader · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 2

Chamberlain had visited two of Robinson’s mines and descended to the deepest level. He subsequently addressed the Chamber of Mines,…

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Labor in the Mines. Protest Against the " Yellow Agony." London

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 3

Johannesburg working-men protest against the Chinese immigration proposal, declaring that the thirty millions contribution is the price of the…

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The Mining Conference. (Continued from Tuesday's Issue) Opening Up Bords

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 6

The clause relating to opening up bords was as follows:--" Beginning at 4yds or 5yds, opening out to 8yds-- 5s per bord. If driven in narrow, yardage rates to be paid, then to be 5s for opening out."…

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Tucker’s Hill Goldfield. Sonic interesting Developments

The Gulgong Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 1

Mr. M. P. Cosgrove Ins some rich specimens on view at Messrs. J. and W. Struther’s office post-officer Chambers, from the Tucker’s Hill…

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Gold Discovery at Winburndale

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

For some time past a family residing on the Winburndale, have been fossicking on the Creek on Government ground with very good results…

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Forest Reefs Mining Case

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

At the Millthorpe police court on Wednesday before Mr Marriott, P.M., T.A. Woods, miner issued James Kelly, of the La Carbine mine (Forest Reefs), for wages due £7 17s 6d, less…

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Serious Mining Disaster. SYDNEY

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 3

Throngh a cage bolting while being drawn up a shaft of the Brilliant Central Mine Charters Towers six men were seriously injured…

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The Yorkshire Coal Strike a Protesting Miner. London

Leader · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

A coal miner named Lowden has made application to the King's Bench for a rule restraining the Yorkshire Miners' Association from paying…

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British Coal For America. Sixty Steamers Chartered London

National Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 3

Sixty British steamers have been chartered to take coal to America, many of them with ten thousand tons each…

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Vessel Damaged at Newcastle. by the Falling of Coal. Newcastle

National Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 3

No. 7 crane at Carrington broke down this morning white the ship J. H. Wappans was loading. A waggon load was being swung into the vessel…

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Broken Hill Mining. Australian Consols Closed Broken Hill

Leader · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Acting on cabled advice from the London Board, the manager of the Australian Broken Hill Consols to-day closed down the mine…

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The Johannesburg Mines. London

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 3

An engineer in one section of the chamber mines at Johannesburg states that it white labor is exclusively adopted it would render half the mines…

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Yorkshire Miners' Association. Broken Contracts. London

National Advocate · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 3

Mr. Lowden has obtained the injunction asked for against the Yorkshire Miners' Association. The jury found that the men broke their…

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Yorkshire Miners’ Strike Injunction Against the Union. London

Leader · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

An Injunction has been obtained against the Yorkshire Miners’ Association, the jury having found that the man broke their contracts…

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Transvaal War Contribution. 10 Millions a Year for Three Years. Mining Men Guarantee It. Lon On

Leader · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

Though information has been published that Chamberlain agreed with the principal commercial mining people at Johannesburg that the…

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Mining News. the Great Cobar Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

COBAR, Wednesday.-- Messrs. S. Joseph, W. Kennedy, and W. J. Barnett, the English syndicate mining experts, have completed their work here. Having sampled the Cobar copper mine, the Great…

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The Katoomba Shale Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 3

On Wednesday six tracks of shale were brought down from the old siding at Katoomba North, and another live on Thursday. Other than that hauling operations have commenced, there is nothing fresh to…

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Gold Discovery at Winburndale

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

For some time past, a family residing on the Winburndale have been fossicking on the creek on Government ground, with very good results. One day last week they bottomed a shaft, and recovered…

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