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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Abermain Colliery Trouble. Prospect of a Settlement. Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 February 1907 · page 3

The situation in connection with the trouble at Abermain Colliery looks more hopeful. At a special meeting of miners this afternoon the secretary read a letter from Mr. James…

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Local and General. East Greta Miners Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 February 1907 · page 2

The quarterly mooting of the East [?] Miners' Lodge was held at the Lodge Rooms on Saturday evening. Mr. T. Daunt presided over a large attendance of members…

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The Great Cobar Mine

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 1

Mr G. H. Blakcmore, general manager of the Great Cobar, Ltd., in the course of an interview gave some particulars of the now plant it…

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Abermain Colliery Trouble. No Settlement Yet. Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 5

There seems very little chance of settlement of the difficulty at Abermain Colliery. This morning Messrs. P. Bowling and A. Lewis, accompanied by a local deputation,…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 3

The Lithgow Valley mines, at an aggregate meeting, decided that they would not work under any condition anything but eight hours bank to bank. The owners' proposal…

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Coal-miners' Federation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 3

An application by the Registrar for the cancellation of the registration of the Colliery Employees' Federation of this Northern District, New South Wales, Industrial Union…

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Neath Colliery. First Train of Coal

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 3

Work at this colliery is progressing wonderfully well, considering the battling the management had with a phenomenal flow of water for…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 5
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The official returns of the gold yield of West Australia for February show 134,193 fine ounces, or 3233 fine ounces less than for the correspondent period of last year. The yield for…

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The Poseidon Gold Rush. A 146oz. NUGGET

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 7

Fresh life was infused into the field at Tarnagulla on Saturday, when Mr. Charles Bravo, crying "Nugget, ahoy !" tossed into the air a shig the size of half a brick. The…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1907 · page 3

The committee of management of the Colliery Employees Federation has decided to ask for a conference with the properties to discuss the best method of setting disputes…

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Colliery Explosion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 3

All explosion in Genwen Colliery, Elwynhendy, Wales, entombed four miners. Two of the rescuers lost their lives through firedamp…

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Colliery Employees Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

Given fine weather, there should be a large gathering of visitors on the Albion Ground to-morrow, when the Annual demonstration and picnic under the auspices of the Northern. District Colliery…

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Miners' Accident Relief Fund

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 2

The above fund has proved of immense benefit to persons employed in the mining industries of the State who have been temporarily or permanently disabled by accident, and to…

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The Monkerai Goldfields

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 1

The actual date of discovery of gold on the Monkorai is not a matter that is considered a control figure as a period of time in the history of the…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

For the fortnightly pay to be drawn at the South Maitland collieries on Friday next, East Greta has worked 9 days, while the employees at Stanford-Morthys also put in 9 days…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 14
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The committee of management of the Colliery Employees Federation has decided to ask for a conference with the proprietors to discuss the best method of settling disputes…

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Heroic Miners [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

Two miners, while attempting to rescue four other (miners entombed by an explosion in Wales, were killed by firedamp…

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The Miners Demonstration. a Large Gathering

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

For the fourth time in the history of the Northern Colliery Employees Federation the annual picnic and demonstration look place on the Albion Ground to-day, and proved a…

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