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

Mining & the mines, 1907

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Gold for America

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 4 December 1907 · page 4

Out of £25,000,000 worth of gold imported into New York since the outsit of the monetary orisin £23,500,000 came from Great Britain…

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Shocking Colliery Disaster. London, Dec. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 December 1907 · page 4

One of the men entombed by the explosion in Naomi Collicry, Pennsylvania, escaped by an air-shaft, but on emerging on the surface he died from the effects of the fumes he had…

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Gold for America. London, Dec. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 December 1907 · page 4

Out of £25,000,000 worth of gold imported into New York since the outset of the monetary crisis £23,500,000 came from Great Britain…

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Harden Gold Mine

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 2

The revenue of the Harden gold mine for the past month was £3337, and the expenditure £3201, including working costs £1239;…

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Coal-mining Dispute

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 4

At a meeting of the Executive Council on Tuesday afternoon the special tribunal to deal with the dispute in the coal trade was constituted…

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Colliery Catastrophe. Four Hundred Men Entombed. London, Dec. 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 4

An explosion in the Baltimore Consolidated Coal Company's mine, Monongah, near Fairmont, Virginia, shot a number of men through the ventilating shafts, shook houses for a radius of eight miles,…

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Newcastle. Miner's Committee Meet. Letter From Victorian Miners. No Friendly Feeling. Newcastle

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 2

The committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation met at the Trades Hull to-day. In the absence of the president (Mr. Peter…

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Native Miners Revolt. London, Dec. 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 4

Five hundred natives employed in the Vorspied mine, Orange River Colony, revolted, and destroyed much property. They then started for Kroonstad, on the main railway line, where the…

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Wonderful Coal-cutting Machine

Argyle Liberal and District Recorder · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 3

A new coal-cutting machine is creating much interest among miners. It weighs 150lb., is worked by compressed air, and is said to be wonderfully successful in…

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Mutinous Native Miners. London, Dec. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 2

Police overtook the rioters from Vorspied, and escorted them to Kroonstad, where the ringleaders were fined £50 or six months' imprisonment, and 200 others were…

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Goldsmith-street Methodist Sabbath School. Presentation of Gold Medal, Prizes and Certificates

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 December 1907 · page 2

AT the Goldsmith-street school yesterday afternoon, the successful scholars were presented with their rewards for the past year's work, ending Nov, 30. The school gained…

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The Coal Strike

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

The situation at Newcastle is again considered critical owing to the Heb. burn men not resuming work, although the propr[?]etors say assurances have…

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A Colliery Explosion. London, Dec. 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

An explosion occurred on Saturday in Dinas colliery, Gilfachgoch, Glamorganshire, where the men were being paid their wages. Out of twelve men in the pit seven were killed by burns…

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Mining Reserve Revoked

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

Burrowa Land District, county of Harden, 24 acres being that part within portions 48 parish Cumbanmurra and 149 parish…

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A Colliery Explosion

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 2

An explosion occurred on Saturday in Dinas colliery, Gilfachgoch, Glamorganshire, where the men were being paid their wages. Out of twelve men in the pit…

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A Mining Case. Wardens Decision

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 3

THE Warden, Mr. G. F. Butler, P.M., has given his decision in the case in which Charles Sams applied for authority to enter Portion 70, parish of Wilton…

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Many Miners Entombed. London, Dec. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 4

An explosion in a mine at Yolande, near Birmingham, Alabama, entombed 90 men 40 of whom groped their way to the surface within an hour of the accident. Rescuers found a number…

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Little Bill's Great White Star. A Gold-Field's Story of Long Ago. [Copyright.]

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 2

It was Christmas Eve when I made the Old Flat where I had successfully worked years before, and the sun was getting low…

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Rev. H. Worrall and the Bendigo Miners

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

SPEAKING at a mass meeting of miners at Eaglehawk (Vie) on Wednesday, Mr. John Pra[?]d, general secretary of the Amalgamated Miners Association, and Mayor of…

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Mining Disaster

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 4

An explosion set fire to a portion of the Pittsburg Company's Narr Mine at Jacob's Creek. Two hundred and fifty Americans and Hungarians are entombed. Smoke and…

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