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

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1905 · page 2

The Elamore Vale miners after three and a half weeks' idleness have decided to resume work, land do the wheeling; in place of wheelers on strike. It, is believed…

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Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1905 · page 4

No important change has taken place in the condition of affairs at Newcastle, end there is no prospect of an immediate settlement of the strike. The strike at Abermain colliery, caused by a…

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Telegrams. SYDNEY, Wednesday. Colliery Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1905 · page 4

There is a good deal of dissatisfaction among the elder miners in the Newcastle district at the action of boys and young men in making such wholesale demands…

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Newcastle Mining Strike

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 26 January 1905 · page 2

There is very little change in the state of affairs in connection with the Newcastle Mining Strike. What are politely termed negotiations are going…

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Fitzroy Iron Mines

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 27 January 1905 · page 2

At Mittagong a movement is on foot with a view of petitioning the Government to start the above mines. The Iron produced from the Fitzroy…

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British Coal Fields. London, Jan. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1905 · page 5

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the working and durability of the coal fields of the United Kingdom reports that the available coal is 10,000,000,000 tons above the…

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Miners’ Strike Ended. the Men Return to Work

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 30 January 1905 · page 3

On Thursday afternoon the satisfactory news was wired that the coal mining deadlock at Newcastle had suddenly ended, by the unconditional surrender of…

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German Coal Strike. LONDON, Jan. 26

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 31 January 1905 · page 3

The coal mine owners of Westphalia, where nearly 200,000 men are on strike, are acting in a conciliatory manner…

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The. Mining Industry. Departmental Encouragement

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 2

WITH a view of affording information to those who take an interest in the mining industry, the Department of Mines has had issued a map of New South Wales showing…

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A Hundred Trillion Cubic Miles of Gold for One Penny

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 1 February 1905 · page 4

THERE are few people who appreciate at its proper value the vast difference between simple and compound interest. The interest upon the interest appears such trifing…

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A Heart of Gold

Yass Evening Tribune · Thursday 2 February 1905 · page 1

You gave me a golden heart once, Ever so long ago. When we were boy and girl, dear, And, oh ! I treasured it so ;…

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Greatest Among Gold Mines

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 February 1905 · page 1

THE greatest gold mine in the world is said to be the Treadwell mine, on Douglas Island, Alaska. Fortune played a shabby trick on…

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Sensational Gold Yield

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 3 February 1905 · page 4

A telegram from Cooktown states that the manager of the Queensland National Bank received a wire from. Coen…

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Lake George Mines. London, Feb. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 4

The Appeal Court has dismissed the application for a new trial in the suit Lake George Mines v Gibbs, Bright, and others without calling upon defendants' counsel. The Master of the Rolls (Sir…

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The Mines Department. Some Contemplated Reforms. Assisting Prospecting Work. Central Record Office

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1905 · page 1

THE Minister for Mines has under consideration important matters associated with the work of his department. He wishes to encourage the prospecting work, and to…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 February 1905 · page 2

BRAIDWOON, Friday.—The monthly gold escort left here to-day with 300oz 3dwt 12gr gold. A Melbourne syndicate intends working…

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The Newcastle Coal Strike

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 February 1905 · page 3

THE Attorney-General, Mr. G. C. Wade, has receive from Mr. Austin, secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, official information to the effect that there is…

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The Mysteries of Coal

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 6

Of the many problems which coal presents to the mind of the geologist, perhaps there is none, says "Engineering," more difficult (or more…

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The Truth about Chinese Labor. How the Yellow Coolies Behave in the Transvaal Mines. Unwilling WORKERS.[By London Daily CHRONICLES . Special Commissioner.]JOHANNESSUNG, Sept

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1905 · page 4

Three bricks of dirty yellow metal Iny upon the desk in the mine manager’s office waiting to be taken to the bank. Each weighed nearly 800oz., and each was worth…

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Peelwood Mines

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Tuesday 14 February 1905 · page 2

A representative of one of the Broken Hill companies visited Peelwood last week. After inspecting the old workings be expressed himself as…

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