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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 2

D. C. Campbell has lodged eight applications for 80 acre blocks in parishes Mookima, Yulgllbar, Orilvie, and Yarrcalkiarra, to mine for tin. The applications were…

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Mining Fatality. a Miner Killed. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 3

Thomas Michael O'Brien (25), a miner, was killed instantly by a fall of earth in the Lord Nelson Mine at St. Arnaud (Vic.)…

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Grafton Copper Mining Company, Limited. Annual Meeting

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 1 February 1911 · page 2

The sixth annual meeting of the shareholders in the Grafton Copper, Mining Coy., Ltd., was held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon. Mr…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 4

Mr. Neil Glass, Coff's Harbour, has struck another good reef at Upper Bucca within the past few days. (By Telegram.)…

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Grafton Copper Mining Co

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1911 · page 7

The annual meeting of shareholders was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, when about ten were in at tendance. Mr. S. See;' Chairman of the…

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A Radium Mine[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Director of the School of Mines in Melbourne, after experimenting for six months, says commercially there is a workable mine for…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 2

Owing to not having sufficient time to attend to the duties, Mr. T. S. Bake[?] has resigned as a director in the P[?]lganbar Mining Syndicate…

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In New Caledonia[?] Vast Mining Resources

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 February 1911 · page 7

The population of New Caledonia must surely be about the most polygenons in the world[?]Numbering but 52,000 in all, it includes whites and natives,…

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Chaffinch Mine

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 February 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—A sensation was caused in Perth on Saturday by the issued for the arrest of Bonwick, Dyaannouncement that warrants had been…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 February 1911 · page 2

A Melbourne correspondent telegraphs:—"During the past few weeks numbers of miners have left. Bendigo and Ballarat for Cobar. Word has now…

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Fire in a Mine. Pit Sealed Down. Sydney

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 3

The fire at Heddon Greta Colliery has been effectively sealed off, and the pit closed down for four months. Had the fire not occurred, there…

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Another Coal strike. Irresponsible Boys Again. Sydney, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 February 1911 · page 3

The Coal Cliff Colliery at Clifton was thrown idle to-day in consequence of the wheelers going on strike. The cause of the strike is that several…

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Mining

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1911 · page 5

For the opening day of the week, the market was decidedly encouraging to scripholders, and bore out the impression created on Saturday, that the tone of the…

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Clifton Coal Strike

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1911 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Coal Cliff colliery was idle yesterday, owing to wheelers being on strike. In connection with the strike several…

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Cangai Copper Mine. Manager's Monthly Report

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

Mr. W. J. Mulligan, manager of the Cangai Mine for the Grafton Copper Mining Co., Ltd., has forwarded the following report, dated 8th February,…

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Cliff Colliery Strike

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—In connection with the coal strike at the C[?] Colliery, Mr. Wheeler says there is a chance of an understanding being arrived at to-day,…

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Colliery Explosion. Nine Men Killed, Six Missing. Vancouver, Saturday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1911 · page 3

An explosion occurred in the Carbon Coal and Coke Co.'s mine at Trinidad, Colorado, U.S.A. Nine men were killed outright, another was so…

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Clifton Typhoid Epidemic. the Miners Furious. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 February 1911 · page 3

The typhoid epidemic at Clifton (South Coast) still continues. A climax has been reached by the death of the mother of a large family…

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State Coal Mines. the Difficulty. Sydney, Tuesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 February 1911 · page 3

Replying to a deputation from the Labor Conference to-day, Mr. A. Edden, Minister for Mines, stated that the main trouble in the way of the…

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Clarence Cu Go Mining Company, Ltd

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1911 · page 4

Matters at this company's mine are assuming a busy aspect. The 20 h.p. engine and compressor plant is now on the ground and will be ready for…

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