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Mining & the mines, 1906

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I Russian Gold Depleted [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 March 1906 · page 2

Between September and January 3G millions in gold left Russia, and the depletion continues…

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American Coal Situation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 3

The United States Steel Corporation is utilising its contract for the supply of coal to compel owners of bituminous collieries to grant the increase of wages, 12½ per cent.,…

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Pelaw-Main Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 4

Respecting the difficulty with the machine men at Pelaw-Main Colliery the men held a meeting on Monday, at which the situation was discussed. A deputation subsequently interviewed the man…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 6

A find of gold is reported from Euchareena, near Conagurra Creek Wellington. The vein is thin, but is improving as it is followed down. The report states that a slug of gold was obtained weighting 1oz…

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Sensational Mine Accident. a Plucky Comrade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 11

A sensational accident, which resulted in the death of Patrick John Kearnan, and in which Henry Dedman, Jens Nelson, Joel Noble, and William Edwards received minor…

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New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. Paper Xxx

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 3

The chief I had to do with was a yellow man; that is to say he wasn’t a black, certainly not a white, and not a brown, but a mixture of the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 7

A number of inquiries have been made lately by Queensland coal proprietors desirous of tendering for the supply of 60,000 tons of coal for Manila, and conditions of contract…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

FIGURES showing the value of the world's output of gold for 1905 are to hand. The total has been given as £75,749,000. To this, the Transvaal…

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Northern Coal Dispute. Hearing Decided Upon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

A little over a week ago there was an intimation to the Arbitration Court that the matter in dispute between the Colliery Employees' Federation of the Northern…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 7

The gold yield of Queensland for month ended February 28 was 37,918oz., compared with 46,706oz. for the same period of last year…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 4

In connection with the recent discovery of in by a prospecting party on the Little Star River, Q., a further consignment of a ton and a half of tin has reachou…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 2

THE liberal pegging out of land in the parish of Isis, for silver-mining purposes, continues to excite a great amount of curiosity locally, and the…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 10

The gold yield of Queensland for month ended February 28 was 37,918 oz., compared with 46,706oz. for the same period of last year…

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New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. Paper Xxxi

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 3

The trade expedition which Hoongla had arranged was getting ready. Four large canoes and half a dozen small ones were loaded with…

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Glasgow Are Tragedy. Death-roll Thirty-mine. Lodging-house Panic. Firemen Beaten Back by Frantic Men. Blind Man's Gallant Rescue

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 5

The most disastrous fire experienced in Scotland for half a century occurred yesterday morning at a model lodging-house for men in Watson street, in the…

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Appalling Mining Disaster. French Colliery on Fire. 591 RESCUED; 1219 Deaths. London, March 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 5

A terrible mining disaster is reported from Courrieres, France. A fire, which broke out in a mine at a depth of 700 feet, led to a terrific explosion at 7 o'clock on Saturday…

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Bathurst. Rich Gold Find

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1906 · page 5

A rich find of gold is reported from Craiglea goldfield, Bathurst district, very rich looms and quartz specimens being unearthed and going about four ounces to the ton…

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The French Colliery Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

The terrible colliery disaster of Saturday morning last, at Courrieres, Franco, through, Which it is reported, that upwards of one (thousand lives have been sacrificed, gives…

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The Great Colliery Disaster

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 3

All the Governments of the civilised world, and the various heads of State, have condoled with President Falliores in connection with the colliory disaster…

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Mining

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

THE gold yield of N.S. Wales for February was valued at £129,437, as compared with £69,123 for the same month of last year…

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