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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Local and General. Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 4

Making allowance for the holidays, East-Greta has worked full time for the fortnightly pay to bo drawn on Friday next. Heddon-Greta worked 8½ days…

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Coal Trade With the East

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 9

Mr. J. B. Suitor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales at Kobe, in his latest report on trade with the East, makes the following observations in reference to…

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French Miners' Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 April 1906 · page 5

The troops in the Lens district have been increased to 17,000 in consequence of the strike of miners. The strikers at Lens are wrecking the…

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French Mining Strike London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 April 1906 · page 2

Diabolical outrages by French millers are reported from the Leris district, in France. The miners wreeked the houses of mine overseers and…

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The Price of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 4

The meeting of the colliery proprietors of the Northern district, which was commenced in Sydney on Monday, was continued yesterday, being brought to a conclusion shortly…

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French Mining Strike. LONDON

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 April 1906 · page 2

Diabolical outrages by French miners are reported from the Lens district, in France. The miners wrecked the houses'of mine overseers…

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Audacious Mine Robbery

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 3

An audacious robbery was committed at Victorian Consols mine, Bendigo, on Sunday or Monday morning. Thieves wrenched off a padlock by…

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French Miners' Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 3

Arrangements are in progress to settle the disputed proposals which brought about the French miners' strike, A number of ironworkers have resumed work…

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Gold for Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1906 · page 2

Large quantities of gold continue to be sent from Australia to Japan, probably in connection with the settlement of the war accounts. Tin- new Japanese mail steamer Nikko Maru, which recently…

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Local and General. Pay at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 April 1906 · page 4

The usual fortnightly pay distributed amongst the minors employed on the South Maitland coalfield to-day was a satisfactory one, considering the fact that the considering the fact that the collieries…

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Kayuga Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 3

Kayuga coal is now being delivered daily in Muswellbrook by means of a traction engine…

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French Miners Resume Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 5

[?] numbers [?] French miners who were, [?] are resuming work, hoping for a [?] of the dispute…

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Deepest Mine in the World

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 4

The quartz obtained from a depth a 4224ft. in the New Chum Railway mine at Bendigo has yielded at the rate of about an ounce to the tea…

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The Aberdare Collieries. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

The eleventh half-yearly meeting of share-holders in the Aberdare Collieries of New South Wales, Limited, was held yesterday afternoon at the Newcastle Chamber of…

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Mining Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 3

A number of loaded trucks dashed into a group of miners waiting to [?]seend the shaft in Dowlais Colliery, Abereynon, killing five and injuring seven…

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Our Mining Industries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

The annual report of the Department of Mines for the year 1905 is to hand, and is a very interesting document. It indicates that the value of the mineral products of…

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The Mining Townships

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

According to returns, furnished by the railway authorities in the mining townships 1272 persons travelled to the Maitland show this year, from the various centres in the Maitland coalmining…

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Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company, Limited, was held yesterday at the Royal Exchange, Sydney. Mr. H. U. Mackenzie, chairman of directors, presided, and in…

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Mining. on Taking Assay Samples

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 3

THE Mines Department have, amongst others, issued the following leaflet, which we think very much to the point:—…

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Quartz Mining Record. Deepest in the World

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1906 · page 3

AN interesting comment has been made by the Geological Director, Mr. E. J. Dunn, upon the fact that quartz obtained from a depth of…

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