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Mining & the mines, 1909

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Poetry. Better Than Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 2

Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousand fold, Is a healthy body and a mind at ease, And simple pleasures Hint always please…

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Copper Mining in Greenland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

It was in the year 1852 that a Green leader. Joshua by name, found a piece of almost pure copper ore on the Greenland coast near Numarsult, but although an…

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Proposed Hospital Site. Objection by Mine Department

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

The Rev. Clark-Duff (Secretary Hospital Site Committee) is in receipt of a communication from the Mines Department (through Mr M. Charlton,…

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Explosion at a Mine. One Man Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 13

As the result of an explosion at Homeland mine, Heathcote, Victoria, one miner was killed and two others injured. The men were at work getting out stone, and had…

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Proposed Hospital Site. Objection by Mine Department

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

The Rev. Clark Duff (Secretary Hospital Site Committee) is in receipt of a communication from the Mines Department (though Mr M. Charlton,…

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The World's Gold. This Year's Output

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 6

How much gold the world will produce in the year which is close upon us (said the "Daily Mall" on December 31.) and how far the demand for the metal…

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Topics of the Day. Future of the Proprietary Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

The result that will follow Mr. Justice Higgins award is expected to be that the Broken Hill proprietary Mine will be kept closed while the price of lead remains at…

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Mining Matters. Meeting of the Management Committee. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

The Federation management committee's adjourned meeting was finished this afternoon. With two dissentients it was resolved that the committee of management was perfectly…

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South Greta Colliery Reports From Delegates to Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1909 · page 5

At a meeting of the South Greta miners this morning, the delegates appointed to tour the Newcastle district gave a detailed report on their mission, as also did the…

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Rosedale Coal-Miners

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 2

An application was before the Colliery Employees' Federation on Saturday from a number of miners employed at Rosedale colliery for permission to establish…

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Rix's Creek Colliery

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 2

At a Meeting of the Colliery Employees' Federation held in Newcastle on Saturday, the president, Mr P. Bowling. submitted a report regarding a visit to…

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South Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 5

A meeting of the South Greta Miners Lodge was held at Walsh's Sportsman's Arms Hotel this morning. Mr. J. Wilson presided over a large attendance of…

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Miners' Executive Meeting. a Crisis Developing. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 March 1909 · page 5

A mining crisis seems to be rapidly developing in this district, in spite of strenuous efforts by the miners' leaders to hold the men in check. At nearly all the…

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Coal Miners' Troubles

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 1

At a meeting of the committee of management of the Miners' Federation, it was stated that the strike at Rix's Creek, Singleton, had been…

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Serious Coal Shipping Accident. the Macmyler Hoist. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 5

A serious accident happened this morning at the MacMyler coal hoist, recently erected at the Dyke at Carrington by the Railway Commissioners in the place of two…

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Rix's Creek Miners

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

At a meeting of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, on Tuesday, the case of the…

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Mining Co-partnerships

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

The unsettled and unsatisfactory conditions of labour both in coal and metal mining suggest the necessity of some entirely different rotations between capital and labour, and the…

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Mining in Newcastle. a Crisis Developing

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

A mining crisis seems to be rapidly developing in the Newcastle district, in spite of strenuous efforts by the miners' leaders to hold the men in check. At…

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Railway Accident at Carrington. Coal Trucks Break Away. Extensive Damage. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

A serious accident happened at the M'Myler coal hoists at the Carrington Dyke, Newcastle, this morning. The couplings of a truck next an…

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Colliery Employees' Federation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 4

The Colliery Employees' Federation assisted by other labour organisations, will hold a series of meeting in the Maitland and Newcastle districts to protest against the…

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