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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Dangers of Coal Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 6

In the course of an article on Aged Miners' Homes, "The Science and Art of Mining" says it is but right that colliers who attain to a good old age should be protected from the…

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Important Mining Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 7

One of the most warmly debated provisions of the Shires Act was that relating to the rating of mines. As originally presented to the Legislative Assembly, it was proposed…

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A Mysterious Death. Mining Speculator's End. Carcoar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 5

A mining speculator named Edmund Edyvean died suddenly at Lyndhurst shortly after breakfast. it appears that Edyvean an two companions went for a walk along the…

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Rating the Mines

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

THE conference which is to meet next week to draft a new clause to provide for the assessment of mines in shires and municipalities is a new departure…

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Scone and Cassilis Mining Divisions

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

Attention is drawn in our advertising columns to a notification which appears in the Government Gazett[?] of the 19th January, approving of the boundaries of…

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Mines in Eastern Seas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 5

Loss of life occurred on board the Silvia, the Hamburg-American liner which, while carrying troops from Vladivostock, struck a floating mine, and damaged by the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 5

A telegram from Boonah yesterday stated that a splendid find of stream and ruby tin had been made in the vicinity of Carnye's Creek, the quantity being unlimited…

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Important Mining Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 15

One of the most warmly debated provisions of the Shires Act was that relating to the rating; of mines. As originally presented to the Legislative Assembly, it was proposed…

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Belabula River in Flood Miners Suffer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 5

A report from Mandurama states that the flood in the Belabula River caused by the recent heavy rain was the highest known for many years…

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Our Sydney Letter. the Coal Contracts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 February 1906 · page 1

The report of the Royal Commission on the railway coal contracts is not satisfactory. The Commissioners could not agree. Mr. Knox, the only business…

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American Coal Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 February 1906 · page 5

[?]nited Mine-workers of the United [?] trying to raise a strike fund of [?] it is expected that 400,000 [?] in April for an advance of 12½…

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Assessment of Mining Lands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 February 1906 · page 5

An important conference was opened at the Works Department this morning, with the object of endeavouring to ascertain what would be fair basis for the…

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A Mining Conference Assessment of Mines [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 February 1906 · page 2

An important conference opened this morning in connection with the mining industry. The object of the conference was to ascertain what would…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1906 · page 2

NEW boundaries of the Scone mining division of the Peel and Uralla mining district are gazetted, and embrace the Merriwa and Cassilis…

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Scotch Miners Entombed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 5

An inrush of water on Saturday entombed five miners at Clackmannan. Rescuers made a two-inch here through the upper warm, through which were sent food and…

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Daring Gold Robbery. Plunder Recovered by Black Tracker

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1906 · page 5

Late on Monday night a robbery of an exceptionally daring nature took place in the battery retorting-house on the Golden Horesshoe mine, Kalgoorlie. At about 11.30…

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Colliery Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 3

Threeof the men entombed in a mine at [?]ackmannan, a father and two of his sons, [?] been rescued…

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Miners Rescued

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 3

Two of the remaining miners entombed in the disaster at Clackmannan Colliery, Scotland, have been rescued…

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American Coal Struggle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 3

The United Mineworkers of America con[?]plate beginning on April 1 a strike involving the bitunrinous and the anthracite [?]ds. If they are successful in this they…

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Miners Entombed [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 2

Owing to an inrush of water, five miners working in a mine in Scotland were e[?]ombed. Rescuers in the upper seam made a two inch bore and…

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