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

Mining & the mines, 1909

1,325 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 30 of 67

Coal Mining Conference

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 2

A meeting of the delegate board of the Western Miners' Association was held last night, when it was resolved that representatives of the association meet the…

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Mining CARCOAR

National Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 2

The Carcoar postmaster, Mr. M. J. Sheppard, has received a communication from a Mr. J. O. Roper, England, to the effort that, if the owner of the Carcoar Cobalt mine…

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Mining News. Mount Werong

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 2

At the Ruby Greek mine, Mt. Werong, the lode has been struck in the big tunnel, in a block which the company has been driving for the past twelve months…

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Mining. the Billett Proposition

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 2

In the Bulett propositions at Mount Werong (seventy acres leases) one snatt is down about 60 feet on four-foot six inch rode with 18 inches of…

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Mining News. Prospecting Vote for Wattle Flat

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1909 · page 1

Mr. John Miller, M.L.A., has been informed by the Mines Department that, in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines has…

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Mining

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 12
Also in National Advocate

In the Mount Scott Proprietary development work is still going on with good prospects. At Mount Laut, the Laut Brothers are…

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Fire in a Mine. Mount Morgan Ablaze. Brisbane

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 2

A big fire broke out in the Mount Morgan mines, to-day. Strenuous efforts were made to combat the fire which was burning up to this…

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Coal Trouble. Settlement Pending at Newcastle. Sydney

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 2

A conference was held to-day at Newcastle between the wharf laborers, colliery proprietors aud ship agents relative to the disputes of discharging…

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Mining near Long Creek. Eaglehawk Mount

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 23

The township of Long Creek is situated, about 25 miles south-west of Mudgee, and for many years was the scene of active mining operations, in…

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British Mining Dispute General Strike Favored London, Tuesday afternoon

National Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1909 · page 3

Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Cumberland Cleveland and other mining districts voted largely in favor of a strike in support…

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Mining. Mt. Conqueror Gold and Arsenical Recovery Company

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 2

The Monut Conqueror Gold Mine, which has been successfully worked on a small scale in the past, is about to develop into an important and…

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The Nymagee Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 4

The Nymagee copper mine has been unwatered, and the faces of the drives dressed down, exposing clean sections of orebearing rock. Messrs. Jacquet and J. O…

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Railway Coal Contracts

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 4

Questions asked by Mr. Fitzpatrick in the Legislative Assembly last evening concerning the last two contracts entered into by the Railway Department for the…

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Rockley Mining

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 2

Mr. G. S. Beeby, M.L.A., has received an intimation from the Mines Department station that the following money from the Prospecting Vote has…

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Rich Gold Find

Molong Argus · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 7

The Secretary for Mines, at Perth, W.A., received a telegram on Saturday from Mr. Canning, surveyor in charge of the party engaged in…

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Mining News. the Main Ridge

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 4

Main Ridge Deep Load (N.S.W.) has nought a 10 head battery from Mt. David, which has more stumps than it needs. Crushing cement to obtain a better…

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Prospecting Vote. Department of Mines, Sydney, 27th July. 1909

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 3

Sir, -- I am directed to inform you that in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines has approved of the following grant…

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The Coal Trouble. Conference Fails to Agree. London

The Bathurst Daily Argus · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 3

A sub-committee of the Scottish coal masters and coal miners arranged to consider the questions in disputes, failed to agree…

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The World The Mining Conference the Men Determined London

National Advocate · Friday 30 July 1909 · page 3

The Sub-Committee of Scotch masters and miners failed to agree. The men's delegates were very determined, owing to the result of the ballot…

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