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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Shocking Mining Fatality

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 4

A shocking accident took place at the copper reduction works of the Mount Morgan G.M. Co. Two young men, William McDonald and Christopher Beyer were at work on a slag…

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The Colliery Crisis. Delegate Board's Meeting. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 3

The Delegate Board of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation held a meeting at Newcastle yesterday when the mining situation was discussed at…

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The Mining Situation

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Delegate Board of the Northern Colliery Employees Federation meeting at Newcastle, the mining situation was discussed…

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Colliery Fatalities. Two in One Mine. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 5

Two fatal accidents occurred at Walls[?]end Colliery yesterday. Thomas Pratten, aged 31, was killed, by a fall of coal; and Sydney…

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The Colliery Crisis. General Strike Advocated

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 4

The Neath Miners Lodge has adopted the following notices of motion to be sent to all lodges of the Colliery Employees' Federation of the…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 9

Local prospectors give encouraging imports of a gold find near Wardell, at the Broadwater. Areas of the country are being pagged out. The gold is contained in…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

The gold dredging lease of A. O. Joyner and others, 41a. 2r. 26per., Bagawa, will be cancelled on 20th instant. The gold lease of W. Shipman, 5a.,…

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Japan's Coal Supplies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The German Ambassador to Japan, who has just returned from a tour in Korea and Southern Manchuria, records, among other instances of…

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A Rich Gold Find

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 July 1910 · page 5

VANCOUVER, Sunday.—The discovery of rich gold quartz in Valder Bay has renewed the activity of prospectors, who are stampeding to the camp in droves. One mill on…

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Canada's Gold Field. Much Exaggerated. Vancouver, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 July 1910 · page 3

Semi-official reports, from Ottawa state that the Portland Canal Bitter Cree[?] gold find is simply a ledge of low-grade pyrites with a little free…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The announcement by cable that copper had dropped 17s, beinging it back to £53 10s, and coming on top of a previous fall, had a depressing…

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The Stewart Gold Rush

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 14 July 1910 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Ottawa correspondent of the "Daily Mail" intimates that Professor Broch, a Director of Geological Survey, has received a report…

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Imprisoned Strike Leaders. Discussions in the Miners' Lodges

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 4

The Pelaw Main Miners' Lodge rejected a minute from the Delegate Beard providing for the payment of expenses incurred by the wives of the…

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(Mining. From Rock-Bound Treasure Chests. Ancient Methods Still in Use

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 5

Mining is a term applied to a great majority of processes, the object of which is to extract from Mother Earth her vast stores of minerals, stones, and crystals that are…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 19 July 1910 · page 5

Our Coramba correspondent writes:— Messrs. Henderson and Co., who a short time since took up the old Beacon Co's. leases, have made what seems to be a…

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The Bilbao Trouble. 10,000 Miners on Strike. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 3

Ten thousand miners struck work to-day at Bilbao to force concessions from the mining companies. The strike sentiment is spreading…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 21 July 1910 · page 6

H. G. Madrick and others have applied for two gold leases of 20 and 10 acres, 500 yards northerly of the Grafton-Armidale road, near the 37 mile peg…

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A Huge Deal. £1,000,000 for Coal Mines. Vancouver

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 5

The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. has purchased the island coal mines for £1,000,000…

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Cangai Copper Mine. Manager's Monthly Report

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 5

Mr. W. Mulligan, manager of the Grafton Copper Mining Co.'s Cangai Mine, has furnished the secretary (Mr. W. McNeill) with the following…

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Coal Strike Coming. Protest Against Contract Work. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 5

The miners at Hetton Greta Colliery, in the Maitland district, will [?]ve notice of their intention to cease work as a protest against the system…

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