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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

282 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 15

A Tress of Irish Gold

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 March 1901 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

SCENT of cedar[?] pervaded the air in the war[?] spring sunshine…

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The Band Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 3

The entire office staff of the Rand Mines Cor-poration proceeds to Johannesburg to-day…

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The Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1901 · page 3

The coal-lumpers resumed work this morning…

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The Coal-lumpers Difficulty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1901 · page 2

YESTERDAY we intimated that the dispute between the owners of colliers and the Sydney coal lumpers union had been harmoniously settled as the result of a conference…

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The Transvaal War. Return of Miners to the Rand. the Peace Negotiations. Promotion of Australians. Boer Losses. British Reinforcements. London, April 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1901 · page 3

Lord Kitchener has made proposals which will allow a limited number of minor to resume work on the Rand. He proposes that sufficient minors should return to the Rand as would enable 50 stampers for…

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The Coal Lumpers' Lock Out

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 April 1901 · page 2

THE coal lumpers' trouble, which compelled many steamers to seek supplies of bunker coal at Melbourne and Brisbane instead of at Sydney is now…

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Making Gold Pens

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 7

Many intricate processes must be gone brongh in the manufacture of a gold pen. The gold, '"999 fine," is received in bars, and the iridium for pointing in heavy glass…

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A Gold Miner's Dramatic Suicide

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 5

At Ballarat a ruined gold miner once committed suicide in a dramatic manner. During the time of the gold rush a certain deserted claim was for years held sacred,…

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Charge of Forging Gold Warrants

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1901 · page 3

H. E. Fry, a director of a smelting corporation, and R. H. Evan, a smelter, have been arrested on a charge of having forged warrants for gold. They are believed to be the principals. The alleged frauds…

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Making Gold Pens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 April 1901 · page 5

Many intricate processes must be gone through in the manufacture of a gold pen. The gold, "'999 fine," is received in bars, and the iridium for pointing in heavy glass…

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A Stream of Gold

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1901 · page 2

A poor widow, living at Campagne near Bordeaux, had reached a state of abject misery. In the little hovel in which she lieved was neither food nor…

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The Greta Colliery Disaster. Unsealing the Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 April 1901 · page 3

Workman commenced at 6 o'clock last evening to unseal the two shafts of Greta mine where several men were entombed some months back owing to an outbreak of fire. The sealing consisted of a wooden…

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The Greta Mine

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 April 1901 · page 2

It was expected that the work of openingthe Greta mine would have been commenced on Monday. Unfortunately this was delayed owing to the non-arrival…

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The Greta Colliery Disaster. Unseating the Mine

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 4

Workmen commenced at 5 p.m. on Wednesday to unseal the two shafts of Greta mine where several men were entombed some months back owing to an outbreak of fire. The sealing consisted of a wooden…

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A Mining Swindle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1901 · page 3

A young wan named "William Dauncey, who was convicted of false pretences in connection with some transactions concerning a supposed mine in the Bateman's Bay district, was sentenced to nine month's…

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The Very Latest. London, Sunday. the Stolen Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1901 · page 3

The gold bars reported to be stolon from tho Kaiser Wilh[?] der Grosse have been recovered at Bremerhaven. One of the ship's stewards discovered the missing burs concealed in the cornice of the second…

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Opening Greta Mine, Story of the Work

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

The official report of the unsealing and re-opening of the Greta mine show that Inspectors Atkinson and Dixen, after the two shafte were…

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Mining Swindle. Found Guilty. [By TELEGRAPF.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 2

WILLIAM G. DOUNCEY has been found guilty of an alleged mining swindle and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment…

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More Colliery Troubles. a Miner Compelled to Leave

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 4

"This is the true story of how I came to leave the old Bulli colliery," said Mr. Robert Spinks, timber contractor, and orchardist. Bulli, to a reporter who wished for some particulars of trouble, hitherto…

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