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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

345 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 18

A Submarine Hunt. Mine-laying Improvements. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1918 · page 5

Sir Eric Geddes, in opening an exhibition of naval photographs in London, arranged by the Ministry for Information, said that recently an enemy submarine…

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Hemming the Submarine. a Barrage of Mines. Daily Events on High Seas. What the Navy Is Doing. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 July 1918 · page 3

Speaking at the opening of the exhibition of naval photography in London yesterday, Sir Eric Geddes (First Lord of the Admiralty) wished he could tell some of…

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Development of Mining

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 4

When the Minister for Mines, Mr. Fitzpatrick, introduced his Mining Amendment Bill in the Legislative Assembly, the Leader of the Opposition,…

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Tin Mining. the Industry Revived. Some Good Yields. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 July 1918 · page 5

Warden James reports that the tinmining industry at Ardlethan is in full swing owing to the high, price of tin, and the consistency of the yield of some of the…

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Rand Mining Disaster. Cage Falls 1000 Feet. Twenty Men Killed. Capetown. Thursday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 19 July 1918 · page 3

A Johannesburg message states Twenty white men were killed to-day in a skip disaster in the Meyer Charlton mine, through the snapping of the…

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Mining

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1918 · page 2

The following applications have been lodged at the warden clerk's office, Coramba: Application by Robert McNally for gold lease of 3 acres, in the parish of…

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Terrible Mining Accident Twenty-one Persons Killed. a Johannesburg Sensation. Cape Town

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 July 1918 · page 5

A Johannesburg message states great sympathy has been evoked as a result of a skip accident at the Meyer and Charlton mine, one of the oldest mines on the…

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Terrible Mining Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 24 July 1918 · page 3

A Johanesberg message states that great sympathy has been evoked as a result of a skip accident at the Meyer and Charlton Mine,…

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Mining Employees' Demands. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 July 1918 · page 5

The mill hands In the various mines in Broken Hill are moving for a 44-hour week, and intend holding a mass meeting to consider the matter…

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Home Rule for All Britain. Welsh Miners' Views. London, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1918 · page 3

The South Wales Labor Federation Conference, representing 172,000 workers, passed a resolution, recognising Ireland's claim for immediate Home…

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Clarence Coal Measures. Government Geologist's Report. "Little Hope of Good Coal."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 July 1918 · page 2

The Government Geologist, Mr. Carne, re-examined dhring the year the coal ontcrops in the upper watersheds of the Clarence, Richmond and Tweed Rivers,…

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Miners' Wages. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 5

The Coal Miners' Federation submitted a claim to the employers for a minimum daily and weekly wage…

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Coal Purchase Board. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 5

A Coal Purchase Board was constituted yesterday to purchase 150,000 tons of coal from the southern and northern collieries. Employment will thus be given to the…

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Board of Trade. Inquiry Into Coal Industry. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 5

The Board of Trade opened its sitting in Sydney to-day' to inquire into the phases of the coal mining industry, housing accommodation, sanitation at the…

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Coal on the Clarence

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 August 1918 · page 7

Sir,—In your issue cf Tuesday last here appears an article on the above subject, most of which is a report from she Government Geologist on the coal…

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Mining. Progress on the Coast. Operations on the Rivers

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 August 1918 · page 2

The bulky annual report of the New South Wales Mines Department is somewhat belated, but the accounts from many, official sources of the progress of…

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Austria. Starvation and Epidemic. No Coal for the Winter. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 5

The American Consul at Melbourne furnishes Reuter with the following wireless from Honolulu:-- Washington: Official despatches…

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Mining on Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 August 1918 · page 2

Dorrigo "Gazette" states that it is rumored that a syndicate with sufficient of the necessary behind it, intends putting in a smelter on the antimony lode which…

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Mining Speculation. Excitement on Stock Exchange. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1918 · page 5

There was almost a "boomlet" on the mining side of the Sydney share market yesterday. Not since 'Ardiethan boom, before the outbreak of the war, was…

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Trouble at Abermain. The Strike of Miners Statement by Mr. Beery. "Officers Playing a Political Game." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 August 1918 · page 5

The Minister for Labor and Industry referred to the threatened extension of the trouble at the Abermain Collicry. "I have had an opportunity," said Mr…

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