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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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The Coal Miners' Strike

Goulburn Herald · Monday 14 November 1904 · page 4

THE Newcastle coal-trimmers' dispute was advanced another stage on Friday when in the Arbitration Court Mr. Schraeder moved on behalf of Mr. Alexander Mills…

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Welsh Colliery Fatalities. London, Nov. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 November 1904 · page 4

A fatal accident occurred yesterday in the Maesteg (Wales) deep colliery. In the absence of the engine men at the hauling engine at the seven hundred feet level the collier in charge lost control…

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Coal-cutting. Revolution in Mining

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 2

A new phase in the history ol coal mining on the South Coast was inaugurated last week at Coledale mine, when a "Sullivan" long wall coal cutter was installed in a…

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Gold Bounties

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 1

MR. MEEHAN elicited from the Minister for Mines last week the following information regarding the bounties which have been paid by the State…

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Coal Mining Industry. What the Miners Want

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 21 November 1904 · page 3

The Coal Mining Industry around Newcastle is not what it used to be ; the men have seen to that; their labor organisations and their industrial troubles and…

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Dreadful Mining Fatality

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

SAMUEL EDDY, a miner, with two mates, Phillip Blewett and William Snell, were engaged at Kalgoorlie on Wednesday morning sinking a winze…

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Mining

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 2

There was a little activity in the Warden’s Court on Tuesday, Mr. Thomas, P.M., district mining warden on the Beach. The following cases were dealt…

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Miners on Private Land a Remarkable Scheme

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 2

In the Assembly on Tuesday, before the tea hour, that is during private members’ time, Mr. Nielsen moved, pursuant to notice, “That is the opinion of this…

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Burraga Copper Mines.—Full Work to be Resumed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 November 1904 · page 4

Lithgow, Tuesday.—The general manager of the Lloyd mine, Burraga, returned from Sydney on Thursday. Toe mine will be re opened on a full scale on January 1. In the meantime development…

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Mining on Private Land

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 November 1904 · page 2

THE Conservatives of New South Wales, who to a man callled to the standard set up by Carruth[?]rs at the recent general election, must feel as…

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The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 November 1904 · page 1

ONLY within a very recent period has mention been made of Cripple Creek, Colorado (says Frank A. Root), although it is doubtless the greatest…

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Mining Wombat

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 5

FOR some time past a number of enterprising men have been prospecting on ground near Mr Harris' garden, about a couple of miles from Wombat…

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Coal for the War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

A quarter of a million tons of Welsh coal have been purchased on Russian account and a hundred thousand tons on Japanese account, to be shipped early next year…

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English Coal for Russia

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 4

There is considerable irritation in Japanese circles at Great Britain's inability to prevent increasing shipments of English coal to Russia. Baron Suyematsu on being interviewed…

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Coal for the Belligerents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 November 1904 · page 2

Viscount Hayashi denies that Japan is purchasing coal from British collieries. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in a circular letter…

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Cable News. Outrage in Venezuela. British Miners Arrested. London, Dec. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 2

It is reported that a Venezuelan officer and soldiers seized 14 British gold-mining prospectors who were working considerably with in British territory, near the newly…

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Coal Transports

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

The Russian Admiralty learns that Admiral Uriu has been commissioned to intercept coal transports. LONDON, Friday…

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The Burraga Mine

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

Word has reached us that the Burraga copper mine will start work again, with a full complement of men, on the 1st January, next. This mine…

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The Kiangara Mine

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 2

Messrs. Alder and Harvey, the principal bosses of the prospecting area at Kiangara, recently despatched about 145 tons of ore for treatment at the…

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Golden Bait Mine "Salting."

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 6 December 1904 · page 4

To "salt" a gold mine, as to alleged to have been done in the case of the Boulder Deep, means to prepare the samples of are taken for…

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