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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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Miners' Accident Fund. Money to Meet the Disaster

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1902 · page 3

MOUNT Kembla is the first mining disaster of any magnitude which has occurred in the State since the Act to Amend the Miners' Accident Relief…

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How Colliery Explosions Are Caused

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 August 1902 · page 4

Professor Liversidge, Sydney University, furnishes some interesting information in regard to colliery explosions. He says that the most common causes are two—fire-damp and coal…

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A Bird Worth its Weight in Gold

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 August 1902 · page 3

It is not as pretty a bird as you will see in any cage at a poultryshow, nor is the egg any more extraordinary in the picture than those you break at the table at 2s…

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South African Gold

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 29 August 1902 · page 3

THE Transvaal goldmines are now not only, yielding increasing amounts of gold, but are paying their share-holders very good dividends. Although…

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A Wealthy Mine. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 September 1902 · page 1

The Great Boulder Company has declared another dividend of 6d, making a total of £175,000 in dividends which have been paid this year…

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Some Mining Matters

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1902 · page 2

ABOUT three three months ago some residents of Maclean had placed under offer to them a gold mining property, situated on Nana Creek, which had been discovered and worked for a time by…

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The White Hell. a Terrible Picture of Woe in the Roumanian Salt Mines

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1902 · page 3

The presence of the "Ruler of the Land" is always a sign of pardon and alleviation; and the pardons are granted by the King after he reads a list, in which the…

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A Coal Mine Flooded. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 September 1902 · page 1

The Union coal-pit at Dean Forest, in Gloucestershire, has been flooded. Several miners were drowned…

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Mining Fatality. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 8 September 1902 · page 1

John Hoey, a miner, was killed at the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, ast night through a falling rock striking him…

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An Angry Gold Mine Director

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 September 1902 · page 8

The chairman of the Associated Gold Mines, West Australia, has his office in London. Of course, it is hardly likely he would have it anywhere else, as the…

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Kruger's Gold

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 September 1902 · page 5

AT the Mansion House Police Court, in July, the affairs of one Paul Kruger, lately a President in South Africa, came up for the consideration of the magistrate,, in the case of the prosecution of…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 September 1902 · page 6

The mineral lease of J. Feldheira, 20 acres. Puhoi, county Drake, will be declared void on 12th instant. It is notified in the "Gazette" that rent is owing…

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Fatal Mining Accident. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 1

A miner named Ralph Peel was fatally injured at the Mimni pit owing to a fall of coal…

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Kruger's Gold

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 3

WILKS JACOB WILKENS, master of the steamer Batavia, was fined £5 and 3s. costs in London recently for contravening the Revenue Act by not…

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Man With a Gold Brainpan

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 8

TO supply a man with a gold brainpan is the latest marvel of surgery described by Dr. Rushton Parker, of Liverpool, in the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. The description,…

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A Mine on Fire. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 September 1902 · page 1

A fire was discovered in the Corrimal mine, near Wollongong, this morning. No men were below at the time, it being Saturday. A party is…

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The Beach Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 6

A CORRESPONDENT to the R. R. HERALD writes; An old identity—one who in past years took many [?] of gold from the benches, earning wages for a lengeby period—is again in our midst…

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Miners' Trust Moneys. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 29 September 1902 · page 1

England has assumed the responsibility for trust moneys of miners in the Transvaal to the amount of £280,000…

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The Gold of the Rand

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 September 1902 · page 8

The "Daily Mail" (London), according to a cal)le in the papers this week, declares that the O.K. State and Transvaal (late titles) are to be made to pay £100,000,…

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Colliery Disaster. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 6 October 1902 · page 1

14 deaths occurred from an explosion in the Black Diamond colliery, Washington, America…

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