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

Mining & the mines, 1918

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State Coal Monopoly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1918 · page 2

Consideration is being given to a scheme for the establishment of a State coal monopoly and it is stated that it is probable some definite action will be taken at an early date…

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United States. Coal and Railways. WASHINGTON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 January 1918 · page 4

The Government control of coal mines and the conscription of labour are predicted by the fuel administration. The national shortage is row fifty million tons. The national…

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Mine Fields British Precautions. (Reuter Message). LONDON

Young Witness · Tuesday 8 January 1918 · page 2

Lloyd's announces that two new British minefields for the protection of merchantmen against submarines have been laid, covering practically the…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Mr Andrew Duncan, who has been engaged to report on the Marks' Hill Wolfram Mine at Reid's Flat, visited the property last week. We…

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A Big Coal Deal

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 2

Not only colliery employees, but also mineowners, were staggered on Monday, by an announcement in the senior morning metropolitan paper that…

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Platinum Mining at Fifield

Young Witness · Friday 11 January 1918 · page 6

A report from Fifield (writes Forbes "Times'') says that in mining matters, things are quiet at the new rush just now, work having ceased for…

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Mining Disaster

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

Many dead bodies have been recovered from Halmer End mines, England, where on explosion occurred on Saturday. It is officially stated that 117 miners are still entombed…

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Disaster in Mine 137 Men Entombed. (Router Telegram). LONDON

Young Witness · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2

As a result of an explosion in a coal mine at illahner End, near Newcastle, 137 miners are entembed. Their rescue is regarded as hopeless, So…

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Mining

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 1

Mr. Andrew Duncan, who has been engaged to report on the Marks' Hill Wolfram Mine at Reid's Flat, visited the property last week. We under…

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Mine Closed Down Due to Labour Troubles. Newcastle

Young Witness · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 2

The Lamington Colliery is to be closed down Indefinitely owing to frequent stoppages through labour troubles and the last strike which…

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Coal Contract

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

MBLBOURNE, Tuesday. — From remarks by conferring Ministers, it scorns that some arrangement is being concluded in regard to the Victorian…

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Coal Strike Mr. Beeby's Plain Talk. Government Prepared to Meet Trouble (Country Press Telegrams). SYDNEY

Young Witness · Tuesday 22 January 1918 · page 2

Mr. Beeby, in the course of a discussion yesterday about the Lymington Colliery trouble, which by the way is not yet completely settled, made it…

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Struck Mines. Goeben and Breslau

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 January 1918 · page 4

London, Jan. 22.—The Admiralty states that the Goeben and Breslau emerged from the Deldanelles in the early morning on Sunday, and attacked our forces northward of Imbros, with…

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Local Mining a Good Gold and Scheelite Reef Discovery

Young Witness · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 1

A new reef, near the Old Louisa mine at Demondrille, four miles from Harden and Murrumburrah, on the main Southern line, and about 17 miles…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

A manganese deposit has been discovered on the property of Messrs Willis and Plumb, Wade's Hill, adjacent to the town. An assay from the…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 2

The directors of the Marks Hill Mining Company recently decided to put in rock drills driven by compressed air. The plant has been…

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The Coal "Deal."

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 2

Mr Holman, the State Premier has rushed into print to protest indignantly against what he calls an "infamous crusade" which ho says has…

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Crookwell's Mining Prospects. Marks' Hill

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 31 January 1918 · page 4

Mr. Leslie Harper, F G.S., Government Geological Surveyor, has been on a professional visit to Crookwell. With regard to the wolfram and scheelite deposits at Marks' Hill, near…

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Coal for Victoria. Colliery Proprietors Repudiate Alleged Contract

Young Witness · Friday 1 February 1918 · page 2

A meeting of colliery proprietors on the Maitland field, also those intereated in supplying coal to the Victorian Government, will be held this…

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Mining

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 1 February 1918 · page 2

The Prime Minister announced in Melbourne on Tuesday that as the result of representations made by the Commonwealth Government to the…

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