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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 8

Further evidence was taken in Melbourne by the Victorian Coal Commission. Mr. Nathaniel Levi said he held several mineral leases in the Cape Patterson district. He…

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A Mining Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 May 1906 · page 5

In the case Merewether and others v. the Scottish Australian Mining Company the Full Court this afternoon said they would remit the matter back to his Honor Justice…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 May 1906 · page 4

The sinking of the Jubilee shaft at the Sydney Harbour Collieries at Balmain is progressing satisfactorily, and is now down 2820ft. It is expected that in the course of…

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Our Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

We have already referred to the annua report of the Department of Mines to institute a contrast, on the whole very encouraging, between the value of the…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 2

We had a look at the Federation Mine, at Omadale Brook, where there are six or seven men at work under Mr. Johnson, and things are going…

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Pens of Gold

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 4

Professor Vambery's tribute to the generosity of Mr. John Murray in the matter of payment for his "Travels in Central Asia" leaves…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 3

A mineral discovery that may prove im-mensely important has been made at Olary, in South Australia. The Commissioner of Crown Lands has handed this following…

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Deepest Mine in the World

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 6

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

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Gold Hidden in India

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 4

It would be an immense benefit to all mankind if the stores of gold now held by individuals in India could be made available for general use. Ever…

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Progress in Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 4

Perhaps in no line of human effort have modern developments brought more striking results than in mining. Lecturing the other day on modern…

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Miners' Industrial Agreement. Stanford-mertflyr

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 May 1906 · page 3

In reference to the industrial agreement be-tween the surface employees at East Greta mid Stanford-Merthyr collieries, a mooting of surface-men was held this afternoon, when…

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The Aberdare Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 11

The eleventh half-yearly meeting of share-holders in the Aberdure Collieries of New South Wales, Ltd., was held on Monday afternoon at the Newcastle Chamber of…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

For the fortnightly pay to be drawn at the South Maitland coalfields on Friday next East Greta worked full time, less the holiday for the show. Heddon-Greta worked…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The South Australian Government Geologist, Mr. H.Y.L. Brown, returned to Adelaide from Olary on Friday, after having made a care inspection of the field on…

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Mining Notes

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 2

The directors of the Caledonian Mining Co. are shrewd business men; so when business men are anxious to invest…

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Gold Hidden in India

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

It would be an immense benefit to all mankind if the stores of gold now held by individuals in India could be: made available for general use. Ever…

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Progress in Mining

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 4

Perhaps in no line of human effort have modern developments brought more striking results than in mining. Lecturing' the other day on modern…

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Our Mining Industries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 14

The annual report of the Department, Mines for the year 1905 is to hand [?] a very interesting document. It [?] that the value of the mineral produces…

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Mine Tragedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 May 1906 · page 5

Twenty-two corpses have been found in the [?] main. Westphalia. There are in-[?] that the men had been starved af-[?] the explosion which occurred in the…

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