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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Lady Sybil Grey As Gold-digger

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 6

Lady Sybil Grey is the latest distinguished gold-digger. She accompanied he father, Earl Grey, Governor-General of the Dominion, on his recent trip to…

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A Mine for the State. Property Must Be Tested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 7

The Minister of Mines (Mr. Edden) on going through the reports from the Warner Vale coal field, near Wyong, which has been offered to the Government free of charge, has come to…

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State Coal Mines. Free Offer to the Government

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 9

The Government has received an offer free of charge, of a coal area underlying 714 acres in the northern district, and containing 40,000,000 tons of coal…

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State Coal Mines. a Gift of Five Millions Sterling

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 6

It transpires that the offer to the Government, free of charge, of the coal area in the northern district, refers to the Warner Vale coalfield, which is part of the Warner Estate, near…

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State Coal Mines. The 40,000,000 Tons Offer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 2

Mr Albert H. Warner, who has mace the State an officer of the coal area underlying the 3714 acres of land, containing 40,000,000 (estimated) tons of coal with…

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Arsenic Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 2

Arsenic is mined in Japan, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, England, and within a limited area in the United States. It's uses are many. As a poison, says the…

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Work at the Collieries. a Poor Fortnight. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 5

The northern coal trade is very patchy. A[?] half of the collieries as working particularly well and the other half extremely bad. Out of 37 pits only seven have worked the full…

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Ebbw-Main Mine. Improvements and Additions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 7

The Ebbw-Main mine, which was started some two years ago, on a small scale, and has practically improved but little since then, is now being altered —both underground and on top—so as to provide…

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Floods in Alaska. Miners Swept Away. Vancouver, Nov. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 5

Floods, due to the loosening of waters inside a huge glacier, swept down the Behring River, Alaska, Miners' cabins were overwhelmed, and the fate of the…

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Welsh Coal Strike. Outrages Continue. London. Nov. 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 2

Strikers in South Wales are holding up and searching trains for blacklegs. They threated to destroy the rails if blacklegs are carried. The manager of the Taff Vale Railway…

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The South Wales Miners. General Conference Projected. London, Friday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 5

Following the conference between Mr. Asquith, Prime Minister, and the miners' leaders, a general conference is projected to deal with the whole situation. Meanwhile, the executive…

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General Cables. London, Sunday afternoon. Mine Officials Maltreated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 November 1910 · page 3

The officials working to prevent the destruction of the Glamorgan collieries were heavily stoned during a temporary relaxation of police vigil…

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Pelaw-main Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 5

Mr. E. O'Toole presided at the monthly meeting of the Pelaw-Main Miners' Lodge, held on Sunday. It was decided that a member be recouped for…

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A Practical Minister of Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 4

At a social gathering held at Adamstown on Saturday. when the Hon. A. Edden Minister of Mines, was entertained by his constituents, Mr. W. Estell, M.L.A., is reported to have said that he…

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Welsh Coal Strike. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 3

Following on the conference between Mr G. R. Askwith, Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour, and Statistical Department of the Board of Trade,…

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The Maitland Coalmines. Stanford-merthyr Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 5

The monthly meeting of the Stanford-Merthyr miners' lodge was held on Sunday, at which Mr. G. Foreman presided. A motion of which notice had been given that stetps be taken to…

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Coal Trouble in Wales. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 2

A lot of officials are working to prevent the Glamorgan collieries from destruction. They were heavily stoned during a retaliation by the police who…

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Very Latest Cables. Welsh Coal Strike. Further Disturbances. London, Nov. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 5

Strikers at Gilfachgoch, Glamorganshire, thrashed carpenters who were erecting a shed for the Muster fusiliers, believing as they did that the carpenters were imported to stoke the…

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Mining Accident at Peak Hill. a Miner Entombed. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 November 1910 · page 2

An accident happened at the Proprietary Mine, Peak Hill, on Saturday, the victim being a man named George Hill, aged 23 years. He was engaged,…

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The United States. a Colliery Disaster. Vancouver, Nov. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 November 1910 · page 5

Fourteen people have been killed or entombed by an explosion in Jumbo colliery at Antlers, Oklahoma. Five bodies which were found at the pit mouth were thrown 200 feet vertically…

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