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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Coal Mines Regulation Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

The coal Mines Regulation Bill was read the second time in the House of Lards last night…

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Colliery Employees' Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 4

The picnic arranged by the Polaw—Main Colliery employees to be held at Paterson on Saturday last, and which had to be postponed in consequence of the wet weather,…

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Miners Wages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

The coni—owners and miners delegates will meet in conference on the 19th inst., to consider the minimum wage question from a national standpoint…

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Welsh Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

The Admiralty has let contracts for 1,250, 000 tons of Welsh coal, to be delivered in 1912, at 16s 6d per ton, which is 1s per ton above the 1910 contract price…

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Colliery Employees' Federation. Delegate Board Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 6

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held yesterday at Fattens' Hall. The President of the Federation (Mr. D. Watson)…

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Alaska Mining. Swindle. Seattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

An alleged great mining swindle is occupying the attention of the law courts. A. L. Moore and C. A. Morro are charged with using the United States mails for fraudulent…

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Miners' Rescue Stations. One to Be Established Tn This Disteict. Newcastle, Saturday afternoon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 10

A conference for the purpose of considering the Government's scheme for establishing rescue stations on the Newcastle and Maitland coalfields for use in case of colliery disasters…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 2

The demand for coal continues exceptionally brisk, and the output for past fortnight was musually large for December. Of 35 pivs at work in the Newcastle and Maitland districts…

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Transvaal Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 5

There was a record output of gold in the Transvaal during November, the total being 719,739oz, valued at £3,057,213…

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Colliery Employees' Federation Delegate Board Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 6

As briefly stated in Saturday's issue, the Delegate Board of teh Colliery Employees' E[?]-duration at its adjourned meeting discussed matters having an important bearing upon the…

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Mining Disaster. Many Men Entombed. Knoxville (Tenn.) Dec. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 5

An explosion occurred in the main mine of the Cross Mountain system, as a result of which probably 100 men have been entombed Throngs of women and children…

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Disastrous Mine Explosion. Princesville (Tonnesco)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 5

Five men were rescued alive at the Cross Mountains mine, and 22 bodies have been recovered. A number of cross galleries have not yet been entered, where it is believed…

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Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 4

Another interview between the representatives of the Colliery Proprictors' Association and the executive officers of the Colliery Employees' Federation took place at Newcastle…

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American Mine Explosion. (By Cable). Vancouver

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 2

The latest particulars of a mine exthat the tappings of the entombed men were heard yesterday, plosion at Brieeville (U.S.A.) state…

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Mining Disaster. All Hope Abandoned. Princeville

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 5

Fire has broken out a second time in the Cross Mountain Mine, and all hope is abandoned of savings the remaining miners. Many messages, scrawled on the walls of the…

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A Rich Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 December 1911 · page 5

1201bs. of one from the Long Tunnel mine, Gundagai, yielded by dollying 170 ounces of gold. The mine improves with depth…

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A Rich Gold Mine. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 4

During the past week 120 lbs of stone from the Long Tunnel mine, at Gundagai, when dollied, yielded 170 ounces of 'gold. The mine appears to…

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Colliery Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 5

The first annual picnic of the Pelaw—Main colliery employees was held at Paterson today, and was largely attended, This morning the Stanford—Merthyr. railway station…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 7

The demand for coal continues exceptionally, brisk, and the output for the past fortnight was unusually large for December. Of l5 pits at work in the Newcastle and Maitland districts,…

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Colliery Minimum Wage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 December 1911 · page 5

The Northumberland colliery owners have declined to agree to the proposed minimum wage…

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