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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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City of Gold and Silver. House and Walls Worth Millions

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 18 September 1906 · page 7

From Mexico comes a strange tale of a city the houses of which are built of gold and silver. A great wall 10 feet high encompasses the…

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The Coal Crisis SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1906 · page 5

In the opinion of representatives colliery proprietors and officers of the Miners' Federation, the crisis will be overcome, and a satisfactory solution…

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Gold Stealing. From the Kalgoorlie Mines

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 2

Reports obtained from the police and resident magistrate at Kalgoorlie on the question of gold-stealing were laid on the table of the West Australian…

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The Coal Crisis

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 21 September 1906 · page 5

At the conference on Tuesday the miners' representatives wanted the final disputed points referred to an outside Conciliation Board. The owners objected on the grounds that a similar…

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The Coal Mines Difficulty

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The conference of masters and men at Newcastle, relative to the coal crisis, was resumed yesterday morning, and ended in a deadlock. The…

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The Mining Bill

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 9

The Mining Bill was taken into committee, but it was evident that the majority of the members were satisfied to leave the bill in the hands of the minister, because…

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The Coal Strike Ended SYDNEY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 24 September 1906 · page 3

The mining conference was concluded at Newcastle yesterday, when a basic of compromise was arrived at. It was decided to submit the…

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The Coal Strike Ended

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 3

The mining conference was concluded at Newcastle on Thursday, when a basis of compromise was arrived at. It was decided to submit the proposals agreed upon to the…

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Interest in Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 4

Owing doubtless most largely to the favourable prices that have consistently ruled in the metal market for some time, but also no doubt in part to the increased…

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Newcastle Coal Trade. a Strike Averted

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1906 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—All the miners' lodges of both Newcastle and Maitland districts have accepted the mine owners' terms in regard to the hewing rate, and the…

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The Coal Crisis Settled

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 4

A feeling of relief has passed over the State at the welcome news that the threatened coal strike throughout the Newcastle and Maitland districts…

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The Mining Hill. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 5

The Mining Bill was further considered in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. An amendment, allowing for a ballot for claims in a case of…

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New Zealand Coal

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 4

A FEW year ago the late Mr. seddon then premier of New zealand decided to work the coal measures in that colony as a state concern Opponents of the measure…

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Gold Find in Canada

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 28 September 1906 · page 2

Father Paradis, a well-known Roman Catholic priest, who has been engaged ia missionary work is New Ontario, Canada, declares that gold fields…

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Mining Bill. Two Members Removed

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—In the Assembly on Tuesday the Mining Bill was further considered in committee. Clause 23 (Governor may grant leases), sub-clause C was…

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Barrier Mines Booming

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 4

Figures collected on Saturday show that there are 8200 men now employed on the Barrier mines, while those employed at the smelters at Port Pirie,…

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A Great Mining Boom

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 8

The sensation of mining circles at present in Sydney is the Budgery copper Held boom. It is manifest, from the feverish manner in which mining investors are chasing the scrip of the…

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The Volcano of Popocatepti. the World's Greatest Sulphur Mine

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 2

The volcano of Popocatepti, in Mexico, is known as the Vesuvius of America, owing to the frequent eruptions that have marked its history…

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Coal Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 11

It was reported in Sydney on Tuesday that a big "vend" had been arranged between the northern collieries and several of the inter-State Steamship Companies. Upon…

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The Coal Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 4

Not only have the Newcastle colliery proprietors, with the exception of the owners of the Wallsend mine, formed a combine for the purpose of fixing the price of coal,…

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