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Mining & the mines, 1912

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World's Gold Production

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 4

The Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. G. H. Knibbs) annually makes an exhaustive inquiry from all the civilised nations of the world ns to the production of gold, the…

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Mining Matters. the Cutting of Pillars

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 6

Mr. Edden, the Minister of [?] received Mr. Atkinson's report on [?] posed machine-working of the [?] Hebburn Colliery…

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Hebburn Colliery Meeting. Mr. Edden Criticised

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 7

The difficulty at the Hebburn colliery respecting the cutting of pillars with machines was discussed at a largely attended meeting of the Hebburn miners yesterday afternoon…

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Troubles at the Collieries. the Hebburn Difficulty. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

In local mining circles the machine difficulty at Hebburn is viewed in a very serious light. Unless a settlement is effected before the Delegate Board meets on Tuesday, it is locally…

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Colliery Strike. Riot and Injuries. London, Tuesday evening

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 2

A strike of 6000 colliers at Cromtillery over, the dismissal of a miner for posting trades union notices led to serious rioting on the colliery premises. The manager's…

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Broken Hill Miners. Proposal to Break Agreement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 8

A special committee of the A.M.A. appointed to investigate the alleged increase in the cost of living and high rentals obtaining in Broken Hill presented its report at a…

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Gold in China. How It Is Mined

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 7

For hundreds, perhaps thousands, on years, the Chinese have been working gold mines in the interior of China and there has been no change in the crude methods…

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1912 · page 2

Ten days constituted full time for the fortnight ended on Saturday, and no less than 23 collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts worked that number of…

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Hebburn Colliery. Work Resumed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1912 · page 4

The difficulty at Hebburn colliery repecting the cutting of pillars with machines has been settled, and work was resumed this morning…

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Colliery Minimum Wage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 5

Lord St. Aldwyn has awarded the South Wales coal-getters a minimum of a fraction under 7/ per day…

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Mine Explosion. Ely (Novada)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 5

An explosion of dynamite killed nine men at the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company's mine…

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Coal Orders Go to America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 5

Many Italian orders for coal were provisionally placed in America during the Welsh strike. The navigation Generale Italians has now decided to make its American orders…

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Colliery Difficulty Settled. Work Resumed. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 July 1912 · page 2

The difficulty at the Hebburn Collieryhas been, settled by a special agreement being entered into, under which the coalentiting machines will be withdrawn…

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Colliery Difficulty Settled

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 3

The difficulty at Hebburn Colliery has been settled by a special agreement being entered into, under which the coal-cutting machines will be…

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The District Collieries. Disquieting Reports. Rumoured Intention to Cease Work. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 5

A very disquieting report, and one that if later on should prove to be well founded, will cause consternation throughout. this and the Maitland district, was circulated…

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Murder and Suicide. Miners Wife Fatally Stabbed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 July 1912 · page 5

A shocking double tragedy occurred at, Kahibah, a small country township about 12 miles from Newcastle, shortly before six o'clock last evening, when Mary Keenan,…

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Colliery Explosion. Thirty-Five Miners Killed. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 2

The outer workings at the Cadeby Colliery, Conisbrough, have been destroyed by an explosion of fire damp. Thirty-five miners lost their lives, and…

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Mine Explosions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 3

London. Tuesday.—Two explosions occurred in the Cadeby Pit at Conisborough, in Yorkshire, this morning. Thirty miners were klled…

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Lost in the Bush. Colliery Employees Stop Mine in Order to Search. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 5

A thrilling and in some respects romantic search for a lost child was this morning successfully completed in the bush near the mining township of Dudley…

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International Miners' Congress. Wholesale Nationalisation Amsterdam

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 July 1912 · page 5

The international Miners' Congress has passed a resolution in favour of the nationallastion of all land, railways, and mines and of a live days' week for miners…

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