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Mining & the mines, 1904

512 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 26

Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

The West Australian gold output for April last was 216,573 crude ounces, valued at £768,836, being 52,845ozs. greater than the output for…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 4

Pattle and party have secured another good crushing from St. Patrick's mine, on the Bark Hut line of reef, Gundagai, six tons yielding an average of 70z. 8dwt. gold…

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Maitland Coal Mines. East Greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 4

The fortnightly meeting of the Minora' Accident Relief Fund was held in the Colliery office on Tuesday, Mr, A. Thomas presiding. The income was shown to be £16 7s, and the disbursements for four…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 12

A wire from Adelaide advises that on Webb's Black Eagle lease at Arltunga a 6in. reef has been struck, carrying from 150oz. to 20oz. gold per ton…

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How Gold Nuggets Grow. Observation Shows They Increase in Weight with Lapse of Years

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 5

Gold in its natural state like many products of the earth, is an article of development. What its original elements are is still a matter of…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Stanford-merthyr

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 May 1904 · page 3

The New South Wales and Melbourne directors of the East Greta Coal Mining Company, Limited, paid a visit of inspection to the Stanford-Morthyr Colliery last Saturday…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 May 1904 · page 2

Gold has been met with at a depth of 3950 feet in the Victorian quartz mine, Bendigo, this being the deepest mine in Australia…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Aberhain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 3

It seems only yesterday when we visited Abermain and saw what was to be a marvellous transformation from a dense bush a month or two previous to scones of activity…

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Alien Miners at Kalgoorlie

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 5

Mr. Hughes, Minister of External Affairs, stated yesterday afternoon that several meetings had been held in West Australia to protest against the influx of Italians…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 May 1904 · page 6

The production of metallic minerals in the Dominion of Canada during 1903 amounted in value to £6,741,480, and that of non-metallic minerals, including building…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 6

In relation to the gold rush at [?] Bay, New Guinea, the senior warden of Samurai goldfields sends a message [?] ly urging miners not to come. They…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Heddon-greta

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 2

A meeting of the Heddon-Greta Progress Committee was held at Champion's Hotel last Friday. There were present:—Messrs. Walker (chairman), Hampton, Whalan, Champion, and Williams…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 4

A case of interest to coal lumpers was disposed of yesterday in the District Court, the plintiff being Angus Donald M'Donald, of 4 Miller's-road, Miller's Point, secretary of the…

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Haulage of Coal. Deputation to This Commissioners. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners to-day received a deputation from the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, to draw attention to the alteration recently made in the baulage rats for small coal…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 May 1904 · page 4

Messrs. J. Curley, general secretary, and P. Bowling, treasurer, of the Collieries' Employees' Federation, accompanied by Messrs. Charlton, Edden, Estell, Gillies, and Dick,…

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Maitland Coal Mines. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 5

A successful concert took place in Lewis' Hall last night in aid the Kurri Kurri Political Labour League. There was a very large attendance, the hall being packed to…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

A message from Rockhampton, Queensland. states that at Peter's Rush yesterday afternoon a party obtained a nugget of gold weighing nearly sixty ounces…

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Produce of Coal Tar

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

But few persons not trained to chemical science know that coal tar is now used us the basis of scores of the most exquisite perfumes and…

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