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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

191 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 10

Colliery Accidents

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 3

At 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday a married man named Flarry Hinman, engaged as a shiftman in the East Greta Colliery, accidentally fell down the [?] at No. 1 tunnel, a…

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Mining Enterprise

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 5

In order to restore confidence in mining enterprise, and thus induce the investment of capital as well as to open up new avenues for labour, the one great desideratum…

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A Fight for a Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1906 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—An encounter has taken place between Americans and Mexicans at Green's copper mines in Brazil. The Mexicans numbered 5000 and were on…

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Discovery of Coal

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 9

Our Coff's Harbour correspondent telegraphed yesterday: "A valuable seam of coal, fifteen feel thick, has been discovered at Glenreagh[?] on Crown lands, and near…

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A Gold Miner's Plain Story. a Victim of Indigestion, and Mother Seigel's Syrup Was Worth More Than Gold to Him

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 June 1906 · page 11

W. C. Cousins, of King Street, Bendigo, Victoria, is a gold miner by occupation, and is widely known in that city, where be was born, perhaps 30 years ago. Some…

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The Miners' Congress. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 June 1906 · page 3

The international congress of miners, sitting at London, has recommended the nationalisation of mines…

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Colliery Troubles

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

At a time, when the coal trade is unusually brisk and the Newcastle harbour is full of ships that have arrived there to obtain cargoes of coal, three of the principal…

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Miners' Strike at Newcastle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

The Colliery Employees Federation executives received a letter from Messrs. J. and W. Brown, owners of the Pelaw-Main Colliery, stating that unless the strike at…

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Mining for Antimony

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 7

The considerable rise which has taken place in the price of antimony has given an impetus to the mining for that mineral on the Nambucca River. In times past the…

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Tin-mining Near Glen Innes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 7

There is activity in securing suitable land for dredging purposes, the high prices of tin causing speculators to operate. Mr. R. Brown, of Elsmore, has purchased several…

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Colliery Owners Combine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—For the first time in the history of the Northern coalfields the whole of the proprietors have come into line, and one of the initial acts of the…

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Tin-mining in New England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

Mining continues brisk around Glen Innes, and good parcels of tin are coming in daily. W. Watson and Whittle Brothers, on the Emmaville-road, for the month,…

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N.S.W Mining Exhibition

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 July 1906 · page 2

In connection with the forthcoming Mining Exhibition to be held in Sydney in September next the directors have mode arrangements with the…

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The Great Cobar Copper Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 11

There is great jubilation at Cobar at the announcement that complete success is assured in connection with the flotation in London of the Great Cobar, Limited, for…

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Grafton Copper Mining Coy., Ltd

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 12

By advertisements in this issue the above Company are inviting tenders for a large supply of firewood: also tennis for work at the mine and the carriage of matte to…

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Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. St. Matthew [?]., 11 verse

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 6

The fulfilment of the promise that had been awaited by the expectant angels around God's throne through the long, sad years of human sinfulness, was at last…

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Tingha Tin Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 10 July 1906 · page 8

At the half-yearly meeting of the Tingha Tin Dredging Company the report stated that drodging operations showed a marked improvement during the half-year ending…

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Coal Strikes in Newcastle. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 12 July 1906 · page 3

Five of the colleries in the Newcastle district are idle owing to strikes…

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Floating Mines. an Aftermath of the Russo-japanese War

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 7

The steamer Gulf of Venice has arrived in Brisbane after an excellent voyage of nineteen days from Vladivostock. Captain R. J. Orkney supplied some interesting…

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Latest Telegrams. a Mine on Fire. Sydney, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 3

The Molyneaux mine in South Otago (N.Z.) is on fire. Four men are entombed in the mine but have signalled that they are all well. They will…

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