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

Mining & the mines, 1909

275 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 14

Miners Federation

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 2

The Miners Federation of Britain has decided to give notice to terminate all contracts and cease work at the end of August unless a satisfactory settlement is arrived…

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Our Institutions. Darlinghurst Coal

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 3

Clang ! Bang! and tho big iron gates of Darlinghurst Gaol shut upon us, making us voluntary prisoners prot[?]m We wore shut in hard and fast…

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British Coal Crisis. General Stoppage Voted. London, July 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 6

The conference of the Miners' Federation has decided that unless thorn is a satisfactory settlement in Scotland to-day notice be given in all districts to terminate contracts and cease…

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Kangiara Mines

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 4

It is understood on good authority that the smelting operations of the Kangiara Mines, Ltd., are realising expectations, both as regards the method of treatment…

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Scottish Coal Trouble. London, July 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 August 1909 · page 4

The Scottish coal dispute has been settled. The masters have conceded a minimum wage of Good day, which is what the men fought for. This wage is to be the minimum for three years…

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Mining

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 2

The easters crosscut from the south shaft of the Kangiara Proprietary Mining Company hw been extended to 45ft, And the improvement in the…

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Mining

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 6

The eastern crosscut from the south shaft of the Kangiara Proprietary Mining Company has been extended to 45ft, And the improvement in the…

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A Rural Spa. Search for Coal. Reveals a Curative Spring

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 6 August 1909 · page 8

Girt with fragrant pine woods on the moorland between the Fens and the Wolds in Lincolnshire, and within a few miles of the picturesque village of…

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Mining. the Tolwong Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 4

A sale of Tolwong Minerals scrip at 20/, an advance of 5/ on the previous transaction, caused some inquiries in Sydney as to the position and prospects of this mine…

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Fight for Two Lives. Tragedy in a Coal Mine

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 August 1909 · page 7

A terrible ordeal, that recalls the horrors of Edgar Allan Poe’s pendulum story, was the most thrilling feature of a colliery roof-fall sear Newport…

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Kangiara Mines

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 August 1909 · page 2

A public school building is to be erected at the Kangiara Mines, and Mr. Nielsen states that the township will be laid out at once, and as a…

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The Lens Miners. a Minister's Knowledge

The Young Chronicle · Wednesday 11 August 1909 · page 3

The revolutionary miners of Lens--for the Lens miner calls "Socialist" and "bourgeois" pseudonyms -- have cheered a Minister of the Republic to…

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The Coal Crisis

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 August 1909 · page 6

A paying amount of output is the essential thing (in the coal trade), and that is so essential for both parties that some time or other, and in one…

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The Coal Crisis

The Young Chronicle · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 6

A paying amount of output is the essential thing (in the coal trade), and that is so essential for both parties that some time or other, and in one…

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Gold in Rhodesia. London, Aug. 11

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 4

Glowing accounts have reached Bulawavo, Rhodesia, concerning the banket formation of gold reefs discovered in the Abercorn district. The formation resembles that of the Rand, and…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 August 1909 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

Yass, Monday.—On Thursday Mr. Joseph Bennett, of the Tolwong Minerals Company, and Mr. Vale, manager of the Mount Deegan mines, inspected Kiley and party's…

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Mining

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 6

On Thursday 12th inst. Mr. Joseph Bennett, of the Tolwong Minerals Company, and Mr. Vale, manager of the mount Deegan mines, inspected…

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A Coal Box

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 August 1909 · page 4

The question of economising space is one that forces itself upon many families, especially those living in small flats, where such a thing as a bined furniture is generally resorted to as a way out of the difficulty. The art student, too, generally finds the convenience of combined furniture…

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Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 4

Goulburn and Sydney investors have taken up land in the vicinity of the property of the Tolwong Minerals Co.. in the Shoalhaven. Practically all the country in the vicinity has been…

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