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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 6

Advices from London, are to the effect that a company is in course of formation with a capital of from £300,000 to £400,000 to work the property of the syndicate situated at…

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Trouble at Hebburn. Wheelers Throw the Colliery Idle. Heddon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 5

The Hebburn Colliery was thrown idle this morning, owing to the action of the wheelers, who refused to go down because of an an alleged shortage in their wages' which they…

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Railway Smash. Coal Trains Collide. Couple of Narrow Escapes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1907 · page 5

Two Government trains collided about 4 o'clock this morning on the East Greta Company's railway line, in the vicinity of the East Greta Junction. An empty coal train,…

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Hebburn Colliery Trouble, Maitland

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 July 1907 · page 2

This morning, the Hebburn Colliery was thrown idle, because the wheelers refused to work on account of an alleged shortness of wages,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1907 · page 2

Mr. J. H. Grill, post and telegraph master of Bungalow, and formerly of Bungwahl, has patented a gold-saving process, which has come through a most successful test by the Walhalla G.M. Co. in…

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Gold Rush

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 5

A great rush has taken place to the Canadian gold-tields at Lake Larder…

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Coal-lumpers' Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 5

The coaling of vessels is proceeding satisfactorily. There is plenty of free labour available for the work…

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Coal-lumper Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 5

John Thompson, a coal-lumper, was fined at this police court to-day for unlawfully assaulting Albert Francis, a non-unionist…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. the Local Coal Deposit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1907 · page 6

The coal deposit in the neighbourhood of the municipality discovered by the boring-for-water experiments at present being conducted under the direction of Mr. J. C. White, is still a…

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The Coal Lumpers' Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1907 · page 3

There was no fresh development to-day with regard to the coal lumpers' dispute. The Premier says it is no use unionists abusing the Labour party, who are doing…

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Coal-lumpers' Crisis, Abortive Proceedings

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1907 · page 4

The maritime conference, after sitting for over a week, endeavouring to bring about a settlement of the unionist coal-lumpers' trouble (which has…

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Canadian Gold Field. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1907 · page 2

There has been a great rush to a Canadian gold field, at Lake Larder…

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The Shale Mine

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 2

With the object of gaining experience and giving the children an insight into how shale was obtained, Mr. W. S. Goard took a detachment of Public School pupils to…

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Mining Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 4

On the number 3 lode in the Hercules mine, Zeehan, Tasmania, the No 4 workings collapsed owing to a large subsidence. Two men…

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Muswellbrook. the Coal Discovery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 5

Interest in the coal discovery is increasing. Two mining areas were pegged out on the common today, and another rich seam is being bored through to the extent of 14 feet. The full thickness has…

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Where Coal Would Be Useless

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 July 1907 · page 8

The total known coal production of the world is something like 700,000,000 tons per annum, and experts state that, even at this rate of production, there is sufficient…

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Coal-lumpers, Dispute

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 4

In the course of an interview on Thursday concerning the coal-lumpers' dispute, Mr Carruthers, the State Premier, said that he noticed…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The Under-Secretary of Mines has furnished a return showing the quantity and value of the silver, copper, tin, and coat, exported from New South Wales during the first half of…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 July 1907 · page 5

During the last few months the work of organising the union of coal minors in the Gippsland (Vic.) district, has proceeded with the utmost secrecy. The application…

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