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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 16
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The gold yield for Queensland for the month of September was 46,289oz. being a decrease of 411oz. on the yield for September last year…

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The Coal Trade. NEWCASTLE

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

A meeting of the Northern Colliaries' Proprietors' Association was held hare today at the Union Company's office. The business transacted was in relation to the coal…

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The Coal Vend. the Effect in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 5

The Victorian Chief Commissioner for Railways returned to Melbourne to-day, but owing to the sitting of the Interstate Conference the Premier was unable to meet him and…

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Diamond Mining Company. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 4

The Premier Transvaal Diamond Mining Company has declared a dividend of 400 per cent. The shares of the Company at 2/6 paid are quoted at…

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Heddon Greta Colliery. Re-opening of the Sealed Portion. No Signs of Fire. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 5

Portion of the northern workings of the Heddon-Greta colliery, which was sealed off in February last year on account of fire having been discovered, was re-opened this…

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[?] Gold Shipment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 October 1906 · page 3

[?] liner Norman Castle left [?] spare to the amount of [?] is a record shipment [?]…

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Cherry Tree Gold Mine

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 2

Considerably over 20 years ago when the excitement was caused by the discovery of exceptionally rich stone in the shaft at Cherry Tree, a…

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Gold for Egypt

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 5

Here gold—to the amount of £760,000 has been withdrawn from the Bank of England for Egypt…

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Exports of Welsh Coal Increasing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 5

There is an increase in the export of Welsh [?] All the great markets and foreigners [?] contracting for heavy shipments at nearly half-a-crown a ton above the price of…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 5

[?] explosion has occurred in Win[?] Durham. Twenty-seven bodies [?]vered from the underground [?] and 30 miners were rescued alive…

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Mines Adrift

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 5

[?] the course of experiments carried [?] Admiralty, 18 guncotton; electri[?] mines got adrift in the So[?] were recovered, and two…

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The Coal Vend

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 2

Newcastle miners are plain men who pride themselves on being able to see no further into a seam of coal than the point of their pick has penetrated. It…

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The Very Latest. London, Tuesday afternoon. Welsh Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 October 1906 · page 5

thousand Rhonnda miners whose to the proprietors terminate at the [?]s month, are not likely to strike [?] all the non-unionists employed in…

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British Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 3

Regarding the alleged purchase by a [?] company of collieries in Wales a [?] registered Cardifi and Rocheford [?], including a considerable…

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Disastrous Colliery Explosion. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 2

A disastrous explosion occurred in the Wingate Colliery, Durham, with the result that 24 lives were lost. The explosion was heard four…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 3

'According to a private cable, copper roached the price of £100 per ton in London, on Tuesday. This is the first time for a great number of years that this metal has…

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New Mining Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 3

The prospectus of the Sugarloaf Mount Morgan Mining Company has been published. The company is being formed with a capital [?] 120,000 £1 shares, of which 46,200 shares…

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Electrical Mines Exploded [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 2

During experiments by the Admiralty, 18 gun-cotton electrical concussion mines got adrift in the Solent. Ten were recovered, but…

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The Wingen Colliery

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 2

The task of putting in the crosscut to open up the second, or westesly, seam on this property, having been completed, work has been suspended for the present…

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