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Mining & the mines, 1906

766 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 39

A Worthless Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 5

Excitement prevails in the Scottish Stock Exchange, in consequence of the report of [?] expert of the worthlessness of the Fr[?] copper mine, which was floated in 1902 in…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 6
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The Under-Secretary of Mines has furnished a return, showing the quantity and value of the silver, copper, tin, and coal exported from the State during the first half of this…

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Mining Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 5

A fatality is reported from the Mount Keira colliery, Wollougoug. John Dobing, a bratticeman, and sevral others were descending the…

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The Stanford-Merthyr Colliery. STANFORD-MERTHYR

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

The main tunnel at Stanford-Merthyr colliery is now being cleared, and gangs of men are working at both ends of the fall—that is from the surface and from the first level…

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Mining Disaster. New Zealand Pit on Fire. Four Men Entombed. Otago

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 July 1906 · page 5

The Molyneaux Coal Company's Colliery at Alexandra, South Otago, New Zealand, is on fire, and four men are entombed. One hundred and fifty pick and shovel men…

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Japan's Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 5

Mr. Moore, the State Minister of Mines, has received a report from Mr. Suttor, the commercial agent, for the East, upon the trade of Japan in certain minerals during…

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The Stanford-merthyr Colliery. Stanford-merthyr

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 July 1906 · page 5

Since the discovery of heated material in Stanford-Merthyr Colliery a large quantity of it has been removed, and what remains has been cooled down by being soaked with…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

MOUNT Morgan during June treated 19,864 tons ore, producing 7713oz. gold, and 302 tons copper. During May 17,301 tons were treated for…

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Colliery Trouble. Boys Returning to Work

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

After a period of idleness extending over several weeks the wheelers and other unskilled workers at the Hetton colliery have resumed…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

The British-India S.N. Company's steamer Carpentaria, which leaves Brisbane shortly for London, via ports, is taking from there 2000 tons of bunker coal. The barque…

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Fire in a Colliery. Four Men Entombed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 July 1906 · page 2

A fire occurred on Saturday in the Alexandra Coal Company's mine at Alexandra, Otago (N.Z.). Four miners—Samuel Churchill,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 July 1906 · page 3

Mr. O'Sullivan, the Queensland Minster of Mines, on Tuesday stated that the application of the Dawson Authracite Coal Prospecting Coy. (Central Queensland) for sir…

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Fire in a Colliery

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 July 1906 · page 1

The four men who on Saturday were entombed in the Alexandra Coal Company's mine at Alexandra, Otago (N.Z.), were rescued late on…

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Extraordinary Mining for Mammoths

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 3

It is difficult to bring home to the mind of the ordinary reader the fact that the greater part, perhaps, of the Arctic regions were at one time…

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The Romance of Lost Mines. Prospectors Who Never Return

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 July 1906 · page 6

In the heart of the gloomy coast ranges of Oregon, among the burnning foot-hills of New Mexico, in craggy gorges of the mighty Andes,…

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Japan's Coal Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 12

Mr. Moore, the State Minister of Minos, has received a report from Mr. Suttor, the commercial agent for the East, upon the trade of Japan in certain minerals during…

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Work at the Aberdare Extended Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 3

The [?]oilers are now in course of erection on the site of the Aberdare Extended Colliery. Some of the temporary machinery has also been…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 July 1906 · page 7
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Mr. W. D. Campbell the assistant Government Geologist in west Australia, has reported on the alleged coal discovery at the Lrwin River. One sample he says is…

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