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

Mining & the mines, 1908

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Another Colliery Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

Four collieries in the Newcastle district were thrown idle on Thursday by a section of the employees refusing to work. The collieries concerned are Rhondda and Pacific, working the Teralba seam…

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Broken Hill Mining Fatalities

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

Broken Hill, Thursday.—During 1907 43 inquests were held in Broken Hill. Of these 20 were on men killed in mines. Two of the fatalities resulted from the after-effects…

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Gold Yield in New South Wales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

The usual return furnished by the Under-Secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield for the year 1907 is 289.043oz crude, equal to 247,363 oz fine, valued at £1,050,730, as compared…

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Mining by Machinery. London, Jan. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

It is expected that the introduction of the Gordon stope drill will solve the labour problem on the Rand, since a native working the instrument in five hours achieves as much as…

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The Goodradigbee Shire Councillors and the Binalong Mine. (To the Editor Yass Courier)

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 7 January 1908 · page 2

Sir.—I ask to bet allowed through the medium of your columns, to let our worthy Shire Councillors know that the public print of their deliberations in…

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Harden Central Gold Mining Company. Manager’s Report

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 3

The M[?]ne of the Harden Central Gold Mining. Company, No. Liability, reports :— “The Eastern Drive at the 200 ft. level…

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Mining Statistics

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 2

This is a period when Government departments, by way, presumably, of justification for their existence, are apt to break out with a formidable eruption of statistics, usually…

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The Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 4

The crisis in the coal-mining industry of the northern district is still acute. The greatest interest has been manifested in the business of the Royal Commission in dealing with the…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Wednesday. the Coal Crisis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 January 1908 · page 4

Judge Heydon delivered his decision this morning on the question of the owners' right to withdraw from the Court owing to the Teralba miners striking. He said the miners were wrong…

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The Coal Trouble

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

By perverse [?], when natural conditions encourage Australia's prosperity, there is evinced a disposition to intrude artificial impediment, We are…

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Lucky Hit Copper Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 4

Messrs. McCabe and Gillett have received from the Great Cobar Smelting Works the sum of £75 15s,3d for their last consignment of 20 tons of crude are, assaying 12½ per cent…

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The Mines

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 6

Recent Ministerial changes have provoked a good deal of adverse criticism. Mr Perry, who gives up the portfolio of Mines, in order to…

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Serious Coal Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 2

The position in regards to the mining situation on the northern coalfields has again reached a serious stage. The Coal Mining Court resumed its sittings at Newcastle on Wednesday, and…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1908 · page 4

The following crushings have been put through since the beginning of the new year:—41 tons from McKenzie and party's reef, for 73ozs. Th[?] makes a little over 100ozs. from this show since…

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Further Mining Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 February 1908 · page 4

The Special Mining Court at Newcastle on Tuesday had to adjourn till Wednesday dying to the boys at Dudley coliery not returning to work on Tuesday morning. The proprietors…

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An Interesting Interview. Talk with a Diver. the Elingamite Gold

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 8 February 1908 · page 1

ON board the “Manuka,” coming over to New Zealand I was pointed out a man, Clarke by name, who was making the trip with the intention of carrying out diving…

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Mining Trouble

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 2

The Neath miners resumed work to-day. All the other pits in the Maitland and Newcastle districts are now working. Serious Accident…

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Coal Mining a Century Ago

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 1

At Friday's sitting, at Newcastle, of the Royal Commission inquiry into the Newcastle creeps, a considerable path of the evidence given by the…

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Lucky Hit Copper Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 4

Messrs. McCabe and Gillett received for their last parcel of copper are sent to the Great Cobar Smelting Works, Lithgow, £41 5s 3d nett, and will dispatch another consignment this week…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday. Mining Troubles

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 February 1908 · page 4

Dudley Colliery was idle to-day owing to a strike of wheelers for more pay. Shipping Congestion. The shipping congestion at Newcastle…

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