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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1903

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Victorian Miners

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 2

MESSRS Elshang and Lambert, the auditors for the Miners' Association of Victoria and Tasmania, have completed the audit of the books of the…

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MINING. The South

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 2

BOTH mine and mill resumed ordinary productive work on Monday, and everything is in full swing ones more. During the fortnight that the mill was…

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Mining Near Arltunga. [By Telegraph.] [?]Blaide, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 January 1903 · page 1

The [?]ommissioner of Police has received [?] message from the police at Alice Springs, advising that both ration[?]nd work are scarce at the new…

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Miners Injured

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

About 6 o'clock last veiling an acident occarred at tha Proprietary mine by which two men were injured so srveruly as to ronder their removal…

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Outtrim Colliery Trouble a Troubled Outlook. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

It had been ar[?]uged that a conferance of represent atives of the Jumbanna and Oattnm [?]illieries should be hold today to consider the now…

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The Weather. Sever Cold in the Northern Hemisplhere. Coal Famine in the States. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

The weather throughout Great Britain and on she Continent is very severe. Thirty degrees of frost have been registered in Scotland…

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Consols Mine Closes Down

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 4

Acting on cabled advice from the London board, Mr. T. G. Sweet, manager of the Consols, to day closes down the mine, resalts of late having…

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MINING. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 4

THE preliminary work in connection wich the new concentrating plant on the western lesse was begun on Monday last, and should be completed,…

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The Gheat Gold Basin of the Rand. How Gold Reefs were Formed

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 3

IN an exhaustive article in the Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) of October 27 inst, Mr. Edgar P. Rathbone, the late Government Inspector of…

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Gippsland Miners' Troubles. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 4

The Jambunna coal miners have considered the new rate leaned by the directors, and have decided that they cannot accent the terms offered; but…

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Coal Famine in the States. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 4

The United States Congress, in view of the coal famine, has almost ananlmously passed a Rebate of Coal Daty Bill, to allow foreign coal to…

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The Weather. [By Telegraph.] Gold Killing the Stock. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 4

Reports from the mountains about Aloury chronicle a heavy mortality among the sheep as the result of the recent cold weather At Dargo, on…

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MINING. Broken Hill Proprietary

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

FOR the month ended December 31 the official report was as follows:— Underground.—Suspension of work consequent on Christmas holidays…

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Coal for the States. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

Sixty British steamers have been chartered to toke coal across to the United States. Many of the vssels take 10,000 tons each…

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Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] a Runaway Cage. Six Miners Injured. BRISBANE, Satarday

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1903 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at the Brilliant Central mine, Charters Towers, early yesterday. The midnight shifts were changing,…

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The Gippsland Collieries. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

The Gippsland coal miners difficulty is still unsettled, and is now assuming a very serious appearance. On Saturday a ballot of district colliers was…

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Yorkshire Miners' Strike. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

A Yorkshire miner named Howden has obtained an information from the King's Banch against the Yorkshire Miners' Association, to restrain the…

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Victorian Miners' Association. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

At the half-yearly meeting of the Ballarat branch of the Mining Association on Saturday night it was reported that there was urgent…

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Barrier Miner. Monday, January 19, 1903. to Improve Mining

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 January 1903 · page 2

"How to improve mining," discussed ma[?]y times before in Victoria, is being actively discussed there again. There are d[?]zens of contributors to…

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The Gippsland Collieries. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 January 1903 · page 2

All the man on the Outtrim colliery have been paid off and the colliery is now idle. The officials of the company say they are prepared to engage…

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