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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Great Cobar Copper Mine. a New Plant

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

Mr. G. H. Blakemore, general manager of the Great Cobar, Limited, has given some particulars of the plant about to the erected at Cobar. It will consist of three blast…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 July 1907 · page 6

A new electrical coalcutter has recently been installed in the Blackheath Colliery, in Queensland. There are two four cutters at work in the mine two being Jeffrey cutters, and the others…

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Shipping Coal at Morpeth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 July 1907 · page 4

The usefulness of Chamber of Commerce is illustrated by the promptness with which deli[?]ness has been given to the suggestion that Morpeth height be made use for five leading of…

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Coal-lumpers' Strike. Open Conference Demanded

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 2

The Coal-Lumpers' Union are demanding an open conference, with an impartial chairman. Failing this they will take steps to give…

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A New Opal Field. 300 Miners at Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 July 1907 · page 2

The Lightning Ridge opal fields at Collarendabri are causing considerable excitement just now on account of very rich stone being found on the western slopes of the…

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The Coal Lumpers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 July 1907 · page 2

The coal lumpers' strike continues to cause trouble and anxiety. The men are determined, by hook or by crook, to obtain a monopoly of…

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Coal Prospectors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 7

The excitement re the coal discovery on the Town Common is increasing, and several prospecting areas were yesterday pegged out, so that in the event of the would-be miners being…

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A New Opal field. 300 Miners at Work

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 7

THE Lightning, Ridge opal fields at Collarendabri are causing considerable excitement juet now on account of very rich stone being found on the…

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Essay on an Excursion to the Shale Mine. [

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 July 1907 · page 10

The following is the second best composition on the recent visit of the Public School children to the shale mine, and written by Miss…

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Cobar Copper Mine

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 13

Mr. G. H. Blakemore, general manager of the Great Cobar, Limited, has given some particulars of the plant about to the erected at Cobar. It will consist of three blast…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 2
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At the Sulphide Corporation's Cockle Creek works during the week 1277 tons of ore were treated, producing bullion containing 1394 ounces of gold, 33,408 ounces of silver, and…

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Shipping Coal at Morpeth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 6

The usefulness of the Chamber of Commerce is illustrated by the promptness with which definiteness has been given to the suggestion that Morpeth might be made use for the loading of…

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A New Opal Field. 300 Miners at Work

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 5

The Lightning Ridge opal fields at Collarendabri are causing considerable excitement just now on account of very rich stone, being found on the westera slopes, of the…

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The Coal Lumping Difficulty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 4

The shadow cast over the industrial world of Australia by the disagreement between the coal-lumpers of Sydney and their employers has happily been dispelled. The difficulty…

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Coal Lumpers' Strike. Dispute Settled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 5

After a disagreement which extended over a period of 14 weeks, the Sydney Coal-lumpers' Union and Sydney Steam Collier Owners and Coal Stevedores' Association have patched up…

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Diamond Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 2

The story of the Kimberley diamond mines began two generations ago, when two hands of Boer immigrants fled, out of Cape Colony to escape British rule. One of them, says a writer…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 3

The gold production of the world from 1904 to 1906 was a tritle over 737 millions sterling. Roughly speaking, the annual gold production now is four times as large as it was in the…

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Coal-lumpers' Strike. a Settlement

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 3

The coal-lumpers' dispute is ended. The unionists, who for practically 14 weeks have carried on a struggle which they believed to be…

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The New Mining Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 3

Sir,—The new Mining Act recently come into force (after months of unnecessary delay in the Mines Department) is bristling with many needful and genuine reforms, and will no doubt give the…

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