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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Coal and Shipping

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

It is upon the diffusion and not the concentration of wealth that the real prosperity of a country de­pends. When Henry IV. of…

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Trouble at Abermain Colliery. Wheelers' Grievance. Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 3

The Abemain Colliery was thrown idle yesterday evening owing to the action of the wheelers, who refused to go down the mine because one of their number was dismissed. It…

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Finding Pirate Gold. Discovery of Secret Cave on Cocos Island

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 4

The news comes fiora Valparaiso, chili, that the latest of a score of treasure expeditions which have torn up tho earth and rocks of this lonely…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

A serious explosion has occurred in Wingate colliery, Durham. Twenty-seven bodies have been recovered from the underground workings, and 30 miners were rescued alive…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

For the fortnightly pay to be drawn on Friday next the Kant Greta Colliery has worked 6[?] days, while the men employed at Stanford-Mer-Lhyr will have 7[?] days' pay to draw. The loss…

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Abermain Colliery. Wheelers on Strike

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

The Abermain Colliery, South Maitland, was thrown idle on Thursday afternoon through the wheelers not going to work. Mr Fletcher, manager,…

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Heddon-Greta Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4

Mr. Henry Trenchard, chairman of directors of the Heddon-Greta Company, at present on a visit to Maitland, made a thorough inspection of the mine yesterday, The district closed on account…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 10

A copper minE near Molong, which was abandoned 50 years ago, is to be re-opened by English capitalists. The trouble at the Bogside Colliery, in the…

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Some Liddle Dings of Mine Own

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 3

I vas like to know der receipt ov how to grow land [?] Land vas bring more govt in Cessnock than shillotes und odder, liddle dings like pumpkins…

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The Coal Vend. a Victorian Endorsement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 2

Speaking at the half-yearly meeting of share-holders in the Jumbunna Coal Mine, Victoria on Thursday, afternoon, Mr. H.L. Nurray. chairman, said that he did not know very much about…

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In Search of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 5

A project is a foot to explore and search a Royal Charter, wrecjed in 1859. which was carrying a large amount of Austalian gold…

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Rand Mining Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 5

The Johannesburg correspondent of the [?] Mail" reports that a rope at the [?] and Jack East Mine broke and [?] cage which it was hauling [?] 1000…

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Muse of Colliery Explosions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1906 · page 3

[?] nningham and Atkinson, report the English Home Office ascribe the [?] Colliery disaster to a formidable [?] and they recommend…

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Welsh Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 5

The price of Welsh steam coal has been fixed at 17s per ton for 1907 contacts…

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Over-production of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 8

Addressing the members attending the Conference of Mining Engineers of Great Britain at Stoke on September 12, Mr. A. M. Henshaw, ex-president of the North Staffordshire Mining Institute, said that…

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Rich Find of Gold

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 October 1906 · page 1

In their mine, at Nuggety Gully, two miles south of Nerrigundah, Moruya district, which has been unworked for the last 15 years, Jessop Brothers…

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Pay at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 4

The fortnightly pay was drawn at the South Maitland coalfields to-day. At East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr the amount distributed totalled £1893 1s 7d…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 6

A telegram from Townsville states that the Cloncurry exports from Townsville in copper ore average about 200 tons a month, There is a great, deal of ore on the field ready…

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Accident at Aberdare Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 27 October 1906 · page 3

A wheeler, named Thomas Bartlett, aged 24, employed at Aberdare Colliery, met with a serious accident yesterday forenoon. In following his…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 5

It has been learned (says the Ipsw[?] correspondent of a Brisbane contemporary) that no reply has been received from the Queensland Government regarding the proposed…

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