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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

282 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 15

Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 2

The Bendigo Mining Company has yielded £14,5000 in dividends during the past fortnight. In the Mining market on Saturday, Western Australian gold companies showed a continued…

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Amalgamation of Steel Works and Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 3

Crawshay Brothers' steel works and collieries at Merthyr Tydvil are being amalgamated with Guest. Keen, and Company, at Dowlais and Cardiff, in order to economise by using coal got in the vicinity of the…

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Australian Coal Rejected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 August 1901 · page 3

United States Government has decided to discontinue purchase of Australian coal for the use of transports crossing the Pacific…

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The Fifeshire Colliery Disaster.'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 3

Three more miners have been rescued from the workings of the Donibristle Colliery, Fifeshire. One of the rescued had been imprisoned for 36 hours Hope of rescuing the remaining eight has been…

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Mining News

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 August 1901 · page 2

THE manager of the New Royal Standard mine, Stewarts Brook, in his last weekly report, states that he roasted II tons of stone from the…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 8

A gold-hearing reef, 19ft. wide, has been discovered on the Tarcoola Enterprise lease (S.A ) The last monthly return of the Waibi mine (N.Z.) was £38,449, the largest yield on record from that…

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A Mine on Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 September 1901 · page 3

The Pinnacle mine, twelve miles from Broken Hill is on fire. No particulars are yet to hand. Later. A further wire in regard to the fire at the…

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Shipment of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 3

The mail steamer Sierra, which left to-day for San Francisco, took away 500,000 sovereigns…

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Extension of the East Greta Co.'s Railway. Development of Coal Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 2

That there is n large field for enterprise in the coal mining industry in the immediate vicinity of West Maitland has been known for a considerable time but it is only within recent years that any…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 11

A three foot reef, carrying two ounce ore, has been struck in a Tarcoola (S.A.) property, below the 72ft. level. A revival of mining work at Mount Morgan is…

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Colliery Disaster in Wales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 September 1901 · page 3

By an explosion in Llanbradach Colliery, Caerphilly, Wales, 20 men were entombed. Three have been rescued, and others are being rescued…

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Late News by Cable. London, Thursday, the Colliery Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 September 1901 · page 3

In the explosion in the Llanbradock Colliery, Caerphilly, Glamorganshire. seven miners were killed and eight injured…

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Extension of East Greta Coal Company's Railway. Development of Coal Mining

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 13

That there is a large field for enterprise in the coal mining industry in the immediate vicinity of West Maitland has been known for a considerable time, but it is only within recent years that any…

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The Coal Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 3

The South Wales collieries are arranging a pooling system similar to that which exists in the Westphalian (Prussian) collieries…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 7

A big seam of good quality coal has been struck close to Deepwater. near Port Clinton, Queensland, The bore struck the seam at a depth of 47 feet. The bore is now down 62 feet, and is not through the…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 6

In regard to tho ?western collieries, a compromise has been effected between employers and employed, and a threatened strike has been averted. Some excitement bus boon created at Nowra by…

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Mining News

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

THE New Royal Standard, Stewarts Brook, during the last week, cleaned up crushings totalling 90 tons, which gave a return of a little over 540zs…

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The Victorian Mining Robbery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 3

A telegram from Melbourne states that-Judging by the result of tho crushing af the last clean-up, the thieves who broke into the Beehive Battery, at Bulumwaal yesterday morning, must have…

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Mining Items

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 11

Another rich shoot of gold has been discovered in Fabian's shaft, Tarcoola. A nugget of gold weighing 223oz., and valued at £750, was found at Ebajeolah (Brisbane)…

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Queensland Coal. a Large Buyer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 3

MR W. SPIER, manager of the Callide (Gladatone) Railway and Goal Company, in the course of an interview at Rockhampton, stated that he bad;…

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