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

Mining & the mines, 1912

1,428 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 72

Westralian Coal Lumpers' Strike

The Bathurst Times · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

PERTH (W.A.), Sunday The position of the coal lumpers strike is more hopeful. Both sides will submit the dispute to arbitration…

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Assessment of Mines. an Important Case From Yerranderie

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

In the High Court of Australia, sitting in Sydney on Thursday, the reserved judgment in the case of J. V. mid A. C. Bartlett and Colon Peaks Company v…

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Mining News. the Great Cobar, Ltd

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 2

The balance-sheet, for the last eighteen months, of the Great Cobar, Ltd., has just been issued. This shows that the total quantity of ore smelted during that period…

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Picking Up a Lode Lucky Miners at Tingha. Goulburn

National Advocate · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

A report received from Bungonia states that a small party of miners, including Messrs. F. Mansell and George and Patrick Willoughby, of…

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Skeleton in Cave. Missing Mining Agent. Mystery Solved After Years

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 January 1912 · page 3

At 2 o'clock on the afternoon of May 13, 1909, Herbert Massey, mining agent, living at Haddington, left home, stating that he would return at 5 o'clock. That…

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Westralian Coal-lumpers' Strike. Perth

Leader · Tuesday 2 January 1912 · page 4

The positon of the coal lumpers' strike is more hopeful. Both sides will submit the dispute to arbitration. The steamer Riverina, which should…

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Coal-mining Matters

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

It is reported that the Western Coal Miners' Association has decided to support the men who have been out on strike at Newnes for some three or four weeks…

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Lucky Tin Miners. Abandoned Mine Turns Out Well. Goulburn

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 1

A party of five miners, including Messrs. F. Hansell and George and Patrick Willoughby, of Eungonia, a short time since, took up an abandoned tin mine near…

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Proposed State Coal Mine. "Equal to Oakey Park." Parliamentary Sanction Required

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Edden) has been informed by the Under-Secretary (Mr. Pittman) that the analysis of the coal taken from the 6ft 6in seam passed through…

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Mining at Yerranderie

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 3

A Yerranderie correspondent writes:--The Silver Peaks Silver-lead Company has nearly all the heavy timber for its concentration plant erected. When the machinery…

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Forest Reefs District Mining

Leader · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

The [?] industry is almost at a standst'll at Forest Reefs, also at Yankee Point, on Flyers' Creek, where alluvial mining has been carried on…

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Failed at Last Moment. Northern Miners. Newcastle

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 3 January 1912 · page 2

Mr. Joh Brown, speaking at New castle, said that the proposed arrangement between the miners and proprietor to avert strikes failed at the…

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News From Everywhere. Northern Miners Position

Leader · Thursday 4 January 1912 · page 4

Mr. John Brown, speaking at Newcastle, said that the proposed arrangement between the miners and proprietors to avert strikes failed at…

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Proposed State Coal Mine. Parliament Must Sanction Further Expenditure

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 4

The officers of the Mines Department have recommended that the coal seam near Lithgow, which has bean cut with the bore put down by the Government…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 4

An aggregate meeting of miners was held last night in the Stadium. When seen this morning, Mr. Truscott said he could say nothing definite. It is reported that…

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Mining News

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 4

The machinery and boilers of the Mount David gold mine having been overhauled, baling operations are proceeding at the Nos. 1 and 2 shaft…

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Belgian Miners on Strike Brussels

National Advocate · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 3

Twenty-five thousand miners at Borinage have struck work…

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The Minimum Wage. British Miners' Claims. London

National Advocate · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

Mr. Burt has circularised the Northumberland Miners' Association, stating that there are too many big and complex questions being…

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Decreasing Gold Yield

Leader · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

The gold output of West Australia has been annually decreasing since 1903, when it totalled 2,064,801 fine ozs., shows a falling off for 1911, of…

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National Stoppage. Miners Taking a Ballot. London. Thursday evening

National Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 3

The miners have begun to take a ballot on a national stoppage to enforce a minimum wage underground…

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