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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

766 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 32 of 39

Bulli Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 4

It is possible that trouble may ensue as a result of the demand of the South Bulli Miners' Lodge for an increase in the hewing rate. A colliery manager, interviewed yesterday, said he did not believe a…

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The Coal Trouble

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 8

A great disaster has been happily averted from the northern coal district by the settlement of the dispute. Conference and conciliation have done…

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Mining Appeal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 15

In the Mining Appeal Court the case in which Norman Lycett was the appellant, and the Copeland Mining and Crushing Company the respondents, was called on…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 12
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

A message was received in Sydney on Friday, from Moruya, stating that Messrs. Wilson and Curtis had just lodged in the Commercial Bank there 144oz. 8dwt. of retorted…

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The Price of Coal

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 3

The Northern Colliery Proprietors’ Association considered the selling price of Newcastle and Maitland coal from January [?] The price of Borehole…

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The Mining Trouble. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 5

The difficulty between the miners and management at Hebburn and Aberdare collieries was satisfactorily settled this afternoon at a conference between the officers of the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 3

The following reconstruction schema has been unanimously decided upon at a meeting bold at Cobar, of the shareholders in the Budgery Minies, Limited :—Capital, £80,000, In 160,000 shares of 10s…

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The Mining Situation. Newcastls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 October 1906 · page 3

Nothing fresh locally in regard to South Maitland coal difficulty. Mr. Learmonth is out of town, and the miners' officers not disposed to speak. It is feared that should…

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The Maitland Coal Mines Another Crisis Feared

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

There was nothing fresh reported at Newcastle yesterday with regard to the South Maitland coal troubles. It is feared that, should a general…

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Barrier Mines Booming Large Number of Hands Engaged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 3

Figures collected at Broken Hill on Saturday show that there are 8200 men now employed on the Barrier mines, while those employed at the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 2

The expert of coal from Newcastle to places beyond the State during the nine months ended September 30 amounted to 2,917,088 tons, compared with 2,435,380 tons in the…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 3

[?] at the Pocahontas colil[?] has entombed 75 men…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

ON Tuesday, copper was £93 5s in London, tin £195, and lead £18 5s— all rising. During the month of September the…

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Millionaires' "Freak" Dinner. at the Gold Diggings in the Strand

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 3

"Freak" dinners have become quite ashionable with millionaires in London and America. The latest "freak" repast in…

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Rix's Creek Coal Mines

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

There as a rumour in town for the past few days, and which is gaining currency, that the coal mines at Rix's Creek are likely to be shut down in…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 5

coffins have been ordered for the Pocabontas colliery…

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Colliery Explosion [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

A disastrous explosion has taken place in the colliereis at Pocahontas, Virginia, United States. Seventy-five miners have been outombed…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The gold yield for Queensland for the month of September was 411oz. on the yield for September last year. Messrs. Peter Bowling, chairman of the…

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