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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Wallaroo Mines Fire. More Hopeful Outlook. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 21 January 1904 · page 2

Tha work of combating the fire at the Wallaroo mines is proceeding satisfactorily. The poaring of water down Taylor…

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The Colliery Disputes. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. Sneddon, proprietor of the Northern Extended coal mine, Teralba, has notified the men that the mine will open to day to allow them to take…

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Wallaroo Mines Fire [By Telegraph.]

Barrier Miner · Friday 22 January 1904 · page 4

The Moonta and Wallaroo Mining Company is still making fair progress in its endeavors to get the fire under in Taylor shaft…

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The Colliery Dispute. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

A ballot taken at the Northern Extended Colliery, at Teralba, decidid not to resume work. The voting was—For work, ll; against, 97…

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Wallaroo Mines Fire. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

Fighting the fire at Taylor's shaft, Wallaroo Mines, is still being prosecuted with unabated vigor. Last night the indications were very…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] London Share Market. ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 23 January 1904 · page 2

Messrs. Clarke and Co. have received the following London share quotations, dated Friday, 5 pm:— Associated, sales 58s 1½d…

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Mine Managers As Jurors

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 1

ON the question of the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly daring the week, Mr. Elden brought under the notice of the Government a question…

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The Northern Mines. An Important Statement

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. Hol. Sheppard (chairman of directors of th B H. Jan[?]n North Company), asked in Melbourne on Friday concerning the complaints made…

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The Northern Mines. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 4

The Melbourne shareholders in the Northern mines at Broken Hill are evincing considerable interest in the agitation (which culminated in the…

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MINING. The British. Good Results in Diamond Drilling

Barrier Miner · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

THE British plant, working 11½ shifts, last week arrested 2227 tons crude sulphides, wich returned 279 tons first and 119 tons second…

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Wallaroo Mines Fire. Practically Subdued. [BY [?].] ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

The fire at the Wallaroo mines has now been practically subdued. The speedy bermination of the fire is no doubt due to the splendid work…

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Mining. [By Telegraph.] Discovered in a Dream. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 3

N. Melrose, of B[?]gadang, near Adelong, was the other day talking over mining matters with a well-known prospector named Cad[?] That night…

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Mining Tenures

Western Grazier · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 2

At last the public are beginning to wake up to a sense of the great [?] this State is suffering through the wretched state of our law in respect of the tenure…

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The Colliery Trouble [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 4

The Hetton (Grese) colliery was idle yesterday owing to a disput[?] over wages, the miners objecting to the proposed reduction…

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The Northern Mines

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. Hal Sheppard, chairman of directors of the Broken Hill Junction North Company, in his reply to the cri[?]clams of the management of the…

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The Colliery Troubles. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 4

The men of the East Geeta colliery met the employers in frindly conference yesterday, and the trouble over the reduction of wages was…

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Colliery Explosion Fearful Results. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 2

That the 180 miners entombed in the Harwick colliery, at Cheswick, U.S.A., a 1 succumbed has been proved beyond a doubt…

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The Colliery Disaster. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 4

The dis[?]ter at the Harwick colltery, Ch[?]wick, U.S.A., has caused 100 windows and 500 orphans…

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Cheswick Mine Fire. No Lives Saved. [Reuter's Message.] London, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 4

All the men entombed in the Ches wick Colliery fire, U.S.A., have been either killed or sufficated. Mr. Taylor, an export mining…

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The Colliery Disaster. [Reuter's Message.] London, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 4

The diss[?]ter at the Harwick colitery, Chaswick, U.S.A, has caused 100 widows and 500 orphans…

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