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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Interstate Shipping Companies. Buying Coal Abroad. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

The interstate shipping companies are buying large quantities of coal abroad. The coal will probably be bunkered at Fremantle…

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The Clifton Mines Idle for Over Three Months. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

It is now ever three months since the Clifton mines were worked, and £30,000 has been lost to the miners in wages…

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Wollongong Miners. Wages Board and Resumption of Work. the Ballot Postponed. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

Several of the miners lodges at Wollongong that intended taking a ballot yesterday concerning che Wages Board and the resumption of work…

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Mount Kembla Miners Meeting. Carpenters Resuming Work. to Be Asked to Attend Lodge and Explain Reason. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 2

The Mount Kembla miners lodge met yesterday, about 40 being present. A considerable amount of diseassion…

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The Following Appeared in Yesterday's Third Edition. Coalminers' Strike. Foreign Coal for the Government. No Official Information. Available. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

The first shipload of 50,OOO tons of coal ordered by the New South Wales Government will, as already reported, reach Sydney to-morrow. No official…

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English Coal Miners. General Strike Counselled. by Durham Delegates. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 4

Delegates representing 50,000 Durham miners, whose wages the arbitrator in the dispute between the colliers and the proprietors, Lord Macdonald,…

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The Radium Hill Mine

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 4

Mr. Frank Boyd, a director of the Radium Hill Company, writing from Sydney, states that it is gratifying to find at depth a decided…

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Mining. Block 10

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 4

The main crosscut on the 1615ft. level of Block 10, which was put out east at right anglos to the course of the lode, has proved the ore body at the…

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Coal Miners' Strike. Unionist Wharf Laborers. Working on P. AND O. Boats. the Position of Non-unionists. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

The unionist wharf laborers returned to work on the P. and 0. boats on (Wednesday afternoon. A batch went off to the Mooltan in the stream and…

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South Australia. Supposed Coal. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 4

A recently supposed sample of coal from the Hundred of Sherlock in the south-east was submitted to the Government Geologist, Mr. Brown, for…

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A Newcastle Report. a Coal Proprietor's Action. Chartering Three Vessels. [To Take Coal From Newcastle. Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

It is reportad that the largest coal proprietor and shipowner in the State has chartered three vessels not now in port to take, coal from Newcastle…

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The Right to Mine. Subject for a Heavy Tax

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

Mr. E. S. Carr, M.H.R., is (according to the Bathurst correspondent of the "Telegraph") apparently not so keen as some of his Labor confreres…

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Intake at the Mines Dams. Large Quantity of Water Conserved

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 4

All the mines along the line of lode which are in the possession of dams have greatly, benefited by the rainfall…

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The Industrial Board. Northern Miners Decide Not to Accept It. Nowcastle

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

While Mr. Bowling was asking Judge Scholes to adjourn the industrial Board on Monday, the miners delegates were deciding not to accept it…

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The English Coal Strike. on Effect on Local Trouble. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

The miners entertain the Idea that a good deal as to the course of the trouble here lunges on the continuance or otherwise of the coal strike in…

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The Coal Strike. Effect in South Australia. Supplies' Running Short. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 8

The shipping firm of Howard Smith and Co has notified its customers that until further notice it will he unable to supply any more coal on…

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In the Northern District. "Meeting of Miners. Confidence in the Bowling Congress. Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 January 1910 · page 1

An aggregate meeting ot the Pelaw Main, Stanford Merthyr, and Heddon Greta mines was held yesterday, and a motion of confidence in the Bowling…

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Great Coal-Miners Strike

Western Grazier · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 3

Judge Schools has granted an adjournment on the Wages Board Court for a fortnight to allow the Newcastle miners to take a vote to…

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Great Fitzroy Mines

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

The following cablegram has been dispatched to the London office of the Great Fitzroy Company, Queensland:— "The last two months' decrease in…

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Unloading Foreign Coal

Barrier Miner · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 5

This week the first shipment of the foreign coal, ordered by the Government from India, Japan, and elsewhere, will reach Sydney (says the…

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