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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

504 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 26

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1905 · page 4

The following returns showing the quantity and value of the silver, copper, tin. and coal exported from New South Wales during the first quarter of 1905 has been…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 April 1905 · page 4

The Araluen Redbank Company was declared officially started at Araluen by Mr. Bruce, local director. Opening out operations occupied 917 hours. The gold won…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1905 · page 8

The coal trade in. tho southern district last week was dull. The South Bulli Colliery only worked two days, while the Woonona Colliery is still idle, with no immediate…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1905 · page 2

A date has not yet been fixed upon which a deputation shall wait upon the Premier Mr. Carruthers, and other members of the Ministry, with a request for a Royal Commission to inquire into the working of…

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Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 April 1905 · page 3

The half-yearly meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company was held at the Royal Exchange on Thursday morning. Mr. J.F. Burns (chairman of…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1905 · page 12

The Araiuen Redbank Company was declared officially started at Araluen by Mr. Bruce, local director, Opening out operations occupied 917 hours. The gold won…

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East Greta Coal-mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 4

The reports and balance-sheets of the East Grota Coal Mining Company, Limited, to be presented at the fourth ordinary meeting of shareholders to be held in Newcastle…

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The Hebburn Colliery. Reduced Terms Declined Kurry Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1905 · page 3

At the request or the employed at Hebburn Colliery the manager allowed the mine to remain idle this morning to enable the men to hold a meeting to consider the terms…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1905 · page 5

Mr. J. F. Nicholson, M.L.A., has arranged for aq deputation from the Hawarra Colliery Employees' Association to the Ministers for Mines, Mr. Moore, on the subjects of…

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A Priest Stuck Up. Attempted Robbery and Murder at the South Maitland Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1905 · page 3

On last Monday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, as the Rev. Father M'Auliffe, of Cessnock, was returning from Kurri Kurri where he had been attending a sick call, he…

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East Greta Coal Mining Company

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 11

The reports and balance-sheets of the East Greta Coal Mining Company Limited presented at the fourteenth ordinary meeting of shareholders held in Newcastle…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 3

No improvement has taken, place in the coal trade in the western district. Two pits are idle, and the remaining three:-Hermitage, Lithgow, and Oakey Park—have been…

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Mining at Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1905 · page 9

A good deal of excitement was caused some weeks back when the announcement was made that gold had been discovered in the vicinity of Cessnock, and about the only thing that prevented a " rush" was…

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We Ton. Miners' Meeting at Hebburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1905 · page 3

At a meeting of the Hebburn miners held on Sunday morning in Sheddan's Hall under the presidency of Mr. Usher, a letter was read from Mr. J. Curley, general secretary…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1905 · page 5

It is currently reported, says the "Orange Leader," that the property of the Scottish. Australian Mining Company at Cadia is to be extensively worked for copper at an early…

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Newcastle Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 May 1905 · page 3

The evil effects produced by this recent Strike in connection with the coal [?] industry at Newcastle have been felt far beyond the boundaries of the commonwealth…

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Russia's Hoarded Gold. Sacks of Gold From All Countries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 May 1905 · page 3

The London "Times" having referred to the Russian Treasury and its reported wealth as a "Humbert's safe" the authorities at st. Petersburg invited a…

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Drifting Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 May 1905 · page 3

A vessel which has arrived at Chifu reports that the Japanese transport, Sheyntsu-mara, with a cargo of provisions, bound to Niu-chwang, struck a mine near the…

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The Coal Industry. Deputation to the Premier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 4

An influential deputation representing the Northern, Southern, find Western districts colliery employee waited on the Premier (Mr. J. H. Carruthers) yesterday afternoon,…

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Mining Fatality. Two Men Blown to Pieces

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 May 1905 · page 2

Two miners, named James Ferguson and Thomas Pollock, were blown to pieces at the South Mine, Broken Hill Proprietary, through boring…

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