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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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Mine Manager "Stuck Up." [By Telegraph.] Stdney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1902 · page 2

Mr. Coleman, manager of the Commonwealth mine at Wunluman, was stuck up on Saturday. He was on his way from Wellington to pay…

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Miming. [By Telegraph.] Disputed Ownership of a Mine. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1902 · page 2

Judge Heydon has dismissed an appeal brought against a man named Boyd and has ordered possession to be given to the respondents of certain…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the Peace. Riotous Colonial Soldiers. The Fire at Delagoa Bay. Natives and the Mines. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1902 · page 4

Several discharged colonial soldiers have been arrested at Cape Town and Durban, charged with rioting. The loeal newspapers strongly…

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A Victorian Miners' Strike. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 2

The directors of the OuttrimHowitt Coal Company declare that they cannot understand why the men at the mine struck, especially…

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Barrier Miner. Wednesday, July 9, 1902. Labor Conditions of Mine Leases

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 2

IN their attack on the Minister for Mines for granting labor-exemption Some time ago to the holders of the Pinnacles it does not seem to us that…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Work at Cobar. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 2

Five smelters at the Cobar copper mine are now working, having a good supply of water from Warren…

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The Peace. Riotous Colonial Soldiers. The Fire at Delagoa Bay. Natives and the Mines. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 4

Several discharged colonial soldiers have been arrested at Cape Town and Durban, charged with rioting. The local newspapers strongly…

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MINING. The Junction

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1902 · page 2

PROSPECTS in Browne shaft continue very promising, and the bottom is now well into what appears to be the back of a strong lode. The…

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An American Mining Town

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1902 · page 3

A WRITER in a Boston paper that describes Butte City, the mining and smelting centre of Montana:—Butte never sleeps. It is as wide awake at…

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Labor Conditions on Mine Leases. to the Editor

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1902 · page 3

SIR,—Having read your leader in to-day's MINER under the above heading, it struck me that you had made out a good case for the…

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The Outtrim Miners' Strike. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1902 · page 2

The directors of the OuttrimHowitt coal mine have resolved to treat the strikers at the mine with firmness…

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Barrier Miner. Thursday, July 10, 1902. Westralian Mining Progress

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 July 1902 · page 2

I only Australia were getting the fall benefit of the splendid gold yield of West Australia, instead of so mach of it going to foreign…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Victorian Gold Yield. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 July 1902 · page 2

The Victorian gold yield for June was 78,000oz, or ll.000oz. more than for the corresponding month of last year. For the six months the yield…

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The Greta Colliery Fire. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 July 1902 · page 2

At the Greta colliery disaster inquiry yesterday, Mr. Jeffries, late manager of the colliery, said he was of opinion that the fice in the mine…

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Municipal Appeal Court. The Mines Cases

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 July 1902 · page 4

IN the Municipal Appeal Court to-day, Messrs. Maitland, P.M., and Vindin, J.P., adjudicating, appeals against the municipal rates by Block 14,…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion. Six Hundred Miners Entombed. Great Loss of Life. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 2

A cablegram from New York reports a terrible explosion at the colliery connected with the Cambria steel rolling mills, Johnstown, in…

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MINING. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 2

SEVERAL important matters with respect to the policy to be pursued in connection with Block 10 mine have been, says a Melbourne correspondent,…

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The Mines Rates. Municipal Appeal Court

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 3

THE Municipal Appeal Court, consisting of Messrs. Maitland, P.M., and Vindin, J.P., continued its sittings yesterday, when some of the mines'…

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The Outtrim Coal Strike. a Disturbance. Several Arrests. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 1

Great excitement has been aroused in connection with the strike at the Outtrim-Howitt cool mine. The head office received a telegram…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Mount Morgan G. M. Company. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 July 1902 · page 2

The annual report of the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company shows that for the year 232,953 tons of ore and tailings were treated for…

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