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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 3

The Minister of Mines, the Hon. John Kido, has received a communication from Mr. Valder, the State Commercial Agent in South Africa, which was forwarded to him…

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Broken Hill. Another Mining Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 5

A fall of earth occurred this morning at the South Mine, Broken Hill, when a miner named George Braidwood was killed and two others badly injured. Braidwood's skull…

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The War. Russians Mine the Coast T Korean Garrison Deserts. Protest Disregarded. London, April 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 5

There is no sign that the Russians intended vigorously oppose the Japanese crossing [?] Yalu. The Cossacks and the outlying [?] are apparently only intended as…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 April 1904 · page 4

The export of coal from Newcastle to places beyond the State for the week ended on Saturday amounted to 53,774 tons. Victoria and Chill were the largest customers,…

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Mining Matters. Coal and Coal Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1904 · page 6

At the mining conference in Sydney, held in connection with the Australian Institute of Mining Engineers, Mr. Thomas Parton, examiner in the Mines Department of New…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1904 · page 5

The output from the mines at Broken Hill during the March quarter has been considerably in advance of that for the correspondent three months of 1903. The total value…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1904 · page 4

According to a report in the Melbourne "Argus" the Jumbunna, Outtrim, and Coal Creeks collieries show an increase in the output of coal as compared with the latter…

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South Maitland Coal Mines

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 5

The completion of the Aberdare Company's railway to Cessnock has advanced the importance of this large coalfield, and brings into the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 April 1904 · page 3

Delegates of the Illawarra Colliery Employees Association met yesterday for the transaction of the annual meeting. All the officers and one delegate from each lodge were present. A number of…

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Coal and Coal Mining

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 15

At the mining conference in Sydney, held in connection, with tho Australian Institute of Mining Engineers, Mr. Thomas Parton, examiner in the Mines Department of New…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1904 · page 10
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The Perry Goldfield between Gingin and Mount Perry (Queenslad) is to be proclaimed a gold-field. The Wollowngong coal trade of the district…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 April 1904 · page 2

As a result of the recent conference of representatives of the Miners' Federation of New South Wales, appointed to consider the Victorian coalminers strike, a circular has…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 2

THERE is very little mining news from up the Hunter, presumably because there is very little doing just now. Aid has been given to continue the…

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N.S. Wales Coal Resources. Their Vast Extent

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1904 · page 4

MR. THOMAS PARTON, examiner in the New South Wales Mines Department, has contributed a paper on "Coat and Coal Mining in New South Wales."…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1904 · page 6

The coal trade at the Western collieries is depressed. The chief reason given is the stocking of 40,000 tons by the Railway Commissioners some time ago, in…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1904 · page 5

At a recent meeting of the Mining Institute of Scotland some interesting details were given by Mr. F. W. Hurd concerning the relative merits of bar and disc coal-cutting machines. The power…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1904 · page 3

A return showing the quantity and value of the silver, copper, tin, and coal exported from the State during the first quarter of this year is furnished by the Department of Mines. The…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 2

We were shown to-day by Mr. A. B. Simpson a little nugget of 4oz. 9dwts. of gold, the yield of a ton of stone obtained from old Fuller's Reef,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 April 1904 · page 3

The statistics of the production of pig iron in Canada during 1903 have been published by the American Iron And Steel Association, the particulars having been received direct from the…

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