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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

766 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 39

Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 3

Common wealth gold exports up to date tins year have totalled £9,953,000, an increase of £4,475,000 over those of last year for the corresponding period…

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Mining About Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 10

There is quite a healthy revival at the present time to be noticed on the various goldfields in this portion of the State, and the recent fall of rain has proved of great…

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A Bold Robbery. Raid on a Gold Battery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 5

A raid of a sensational character was made on Friday morning on the battery of Haman's Howard mine, Kalgoorlie. Two of three men employed at the battery…

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Welsh Miners' Federation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

Six thousand miners at Rhymney, Mon[?]shine, and 400[?] at Maestag. Glamor[?]shire, struck, owning to the employment [?] a non-unionist…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 3

A conference of coalminers and colliery proprietors was held at Ipswich (Q.) on Saturday night with a view of discussing the existing difficulty in the coal trade. About…

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The Dog Watch. Miners' Meetings. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

A special meeting of the Miners' Lodge took place at the King's Hall on Sunday. M. R. Jarvis presided, and there was a good attendance, including Mr. P. Bowling, president of the Miners'…

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Natives for the Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 3

Mr. Langerman, representing the Robinson group of mines, advocates the repatriation of Chinese, and the more active recruiting of natives…

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Raid on a Mine. Workmen Bound and Gagged

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

A RAID was made on Friday morning on the battery of Hannan's Reward mine, Kalgoorlie. The story as detailed by the workmen who…

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tHE Mining Dispute, Views of Employers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 September 1906 · page 8

The committee of the Colliery-owners Association met in Newcastle yesterday, and Mr. F. L. Learmouth, Superintendent of the A.A. Company, made a statement…

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Fire on Melbourne Express a Bag of Coal Ablaze

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 3

Passengers by the Melbourne express, which arrived in Sydney on Saturday morning, nearly an hour and ten minutes behind schedule…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

WHILE some men were sinking a well at Kurri Kurri a few days ago, a vein of quartz was struck. On examination, gold was found well defined in the…

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In the Days of the California[?] Gold Rush

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 4

Not many miles from Shasta City, in California, is a gulch of which a strange story is told. It is a deep ravine, with the rocks showing all…

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Money Queens. Feminine Plutocrats Who Own Mines and Run Vast Businesses

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 4

The truism that untold riches cannot purchase happiness or peace of mind finds an apt illustration in the life atones of the world's millionaire women. Incessantly…

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The New Mining Bill. Minister's Second Reading Speech

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 8

THE new Mining Bill was the most important matter considered by the Legislative Assembly last week, when the Minister moved the second…

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The Colliery Townships

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 15

A stuff of collectors from the hospital visited the South Maitland mining towaships on Friday afternoon, and although the amount raised is hardly equal to the total…

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Local and General. Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 4

For the fortnightly pay to be drawn on Friday next Stanford-Merthyr Colliery has worked full time, which is 11 days, and at East Greta the miners put in 10 days' work…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 13

The briskness of the southern coal trade has caused quiet a boom at Clifton where one property-owner in calling for the erection of 25 cottages…

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Mining About Dungog

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 10

There is quite a healthy revival at the present time to be noticed on the various goldfields in this portion of the State, and the recent fall of rain has proved of great…

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Meeting of Colliery Owners' Association. Miners' Management Committee. Chapters Cancelled. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 5

The Executive Committee of the Colliery, Owners Association held a meeting, this afternoon re the mining crisis, but positively refused to give any information the…

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