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Mining & the mines, 1904

512 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 26

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 3

The Stanford-Merthyr miners have applled to the Colliery Employees Federation to have the Arbitration Court's interpretation upon the clause in the East Greta award,…

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Selling Price of Coal. Application to the Court. Judgment Reserved

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 September 1904 · page 4

The hearing of the application by the Colliery Employees Federation, Northern district, for an order for the preservation of existing working conditions in the mines…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 4

Some distress exists at Blackhall on the West Coast of the South Inland of New Zealand. owing to the fact that labour is reduced in the coalmines. A telegram from Ballarat says that information…

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The Mining Dispute. Matter Before the Count. Employers' Notices Set Aside. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 September 1904 · page 3

The Arbitration Court gave judgment to-day in the dispute between the Northern District Colliery Employees' Association and the Northern Colliery Proprietors'…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 13

Professor Park, geologist at the Otago (N.Z.) University, says that the New Zealand coalfields are much more extensive than hitherto supposed. He believes that coal…

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The Coal Trade and Reduction

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 4

The following fuller notice than we had yesterday of the decision of the Arbitration Court in this important matter is from the "Heraid." It had been awaited with grave interest not…

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Worse Than War. Terrible Mortality in the Transvaal Mines

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 6
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Some startlign returns with regard to the native mortality in the Transvaal mining districts are given in a Blue-book on native labour…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 6

The decision ol the Arbitration Court last. Friday in favour of the application of the miners for an order to preserve existing working conditions in the Newcastle…

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Newcastle Mining Dispute. Decision of the Arbitration Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1904 · page 4

THE decision of the Arbitration Court in this important matter was announced on Friday. It had been awaited with grave interest not only…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 September 1904 · page 7

The work of sinking the Aberdare shafts has progressed well under the contractor, Mr. Frost. The main shaft, 17 feet in diameter clear of the brick work, is now down…

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Coal Hewing Rate. Notice of Reduction

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 September 1904 · page 7

The anticipated action of the [?] Corliery Proprietors in the direction of a reduction in the price of coal was taken on Tuesday. It was decided that the declared…

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Sensational Gold Discovery. At Southern Cross

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 September 1904 · page 3

Messrs J. Richards, W.H. Stephens, and T. Armstrong, tributing on the Reward Extended leases, Southern Cross, (W.A.,) have struck a rich…

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The Coal Industry. the Effects of Arbitration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 September 1904 · page 4

A member of the Northern Colliery [?] praetors' Association yesterday explaned to a representative of a Sydney journal that what he regarded as "the unfair [?]…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 8
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

It is stated that the coalcutting machine at the Northern Extended Colliery is being regularly worked by two men. and it undercuts suillcient coal daily to keep a number…

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Newcastle Mining Dispute

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 2

The decision of the Arbitration Court in this important matter was announced on Friday week, after we had gone to Dress with our last issue…

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Minister of Education at Kurri Kurri. Mining Township Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 October 1904 · page 3

During the visit of the Minister of Education, the Hon. B. B. O'Conor, and party to the South Maitland Mining Townships on Saturday, advantage was taken of the…

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Mining in the Arctic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1904 · page 6

In temperate or hot countries the process of extracting gold from a placer deposit is extremely simple—if the gold is there (writes Mr. Arthur lakersby, in the "Scientific…

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The Gold Standard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1904 · page 3

Professor Jenks, who was sent by President Roosevelt to study the monetary systems of the Far East, returned to San Francisco yesterday. He declares his belief that…

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