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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1901

282 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 15

A Shipment of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 3

Fifty-five thousand sovereigns were shipped for London in the mail steamer Victoria, which left to-day…

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Mine Accident in the Transvaal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 April 1901 · page 3

A terrible accident happened at the Geldenhui Deep, a mine in the Transvaal yesterday. The rope of the cage, which was being hauled to the surfaces broke, and the cage fell to the bottom. Twenty-six…

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Hidden Gold

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

Gold for various reasons disappears rapidly in all countries, but nowhere else does it pass out of sight so rapidly as in India and China. So rapidly does the…

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Riot at Bendigo. a Mining Trouble

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 3

The dispute between the management and employees of the Clarence United-mine at Bendigo came to a climax yesterday, when five miners…

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W. Juo. Baker's Cutlery Trophy Championship Prize, and 10 awarded the Gold Medal, the First Prizes Royal

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

The cutlory exhibit of Mr. W. Jno. Baker, in the main pavilion, well desorved the awards as enumerated above, these being the latest to a list of some 15 first prizes. The…

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More Colliery Trouble. a Miner Compelled to Leave

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 10

" 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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The Greta Mine. The Fire not yet out. The Mine again Sealed Down

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 5

The work of opening out the Greta mine has received a check, as it has been discovered that the firs is not yet out…

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Out West. a Girl's Life in a Mining Camp

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 4
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Speaking of the Nebraskan deserts, Robert Louis Stephenson says, "It seems incredible that life can go on with so few properties, or the great child, man, find entertainment in so…

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The Imperial Budget. Increased Taxation Proposed. Export Duty on Coal. Payment by the Transvaal. London, April 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 3

In the course of his budget statement last night, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said that the expenditure for the past year had been £183,500,000. Included in this sum was a war expenditure of…

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The Very Latest. London, Monday afternoon. the Proposed Coal Duty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1901 · page 3

The Chamber of Commerce at Gihraltar has petitioned Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchepuer, against an export an export duty on coal intended for the colonial coaling stations of the…

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The British Budget. £60,000,000 War Loan to be Raised Coal People Object. German Admiration. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 April 1901 · page 2

The English Custom House has been kept very busy on account of the immense clearances in anticipation of the War Loan proposals…

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Crown Claim to a Gold Area

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 3

The Crown has made a claim to gold bearing quartz, found in a street in Leith. The quartz yields 30oz. to the ton. The gold vein runs through tho river…

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The Coal, Duty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 April 1901 · page 3

Sir Micheal Hicks-Beach has promised to exempt existing coal contracts from the proposed export duty on coal…

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British Coal Duties. Existing Contracts Exempt. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has promised to exempt existing coal contracts from the proposed export duty…

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Gold in Scotland. 30oZ. to the Ton. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 5

A THIN gold-bearing quartz reef, running 30oz to the ton, has been discovered in a street in Leith, Scotland. The Crown claims the vein, which…

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The Imperial Budget. Increased Taxation Proposed. Export Duty on Coal. Payment by the Transvaal. the Loans. a Total of £60,000,000. London, April 19

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

In the course of his budget statement last night. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said that the expenditure for the past year had been £183,500,000. Included in this sum was a war expenditure of…

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Disastrous Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 3

A disastrous explosion occurred on Saturday at a solitary at Hornu, 6 miles west-south-west of Mon[?] Belgium. Eighteen men were killed…

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A Mysterious Mine. a Dead Man's Secret

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 April 1901 · page 4

There is a reef or leader somewhere out Broughton way which should handsomely pay the man who finds it (relates…

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British Coal Exports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1901 · page 3

Mr. Pierpont Morgan, having bought 1,200,000 ordinary £1 shares of Frederick Leyland and Co., Limited, for £1,750,000 now controls the Boston and Liverpool trade of the firm. Mr. J. r. Ellerman,…

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