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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Colliery Explosion. Pittsburg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 5

Two miners are dead and 70 missing as the result of an explosion at a Cincinattimine, Monongaheln River, Finlayville. Twenty escaped by means of the ventilating…

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Southern Coal Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 5

The Minister of Labour states that evidence to enable prosecutions against the Southern colliery strikers to be undertaken has now been collected and the cases will probably be…

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The Mining Situation. Proprietors Statement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 5

On behalf of the Northern colliery proprietors Mr. A.R. Cant, the secretary to the Defence Association has made the following statement:—…

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South Coast Coal Strike. Horses Turned Out Again

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 2

The managers of the Southern Collieries have received instructions from the proprietors to cease the work of preparing the mines for a resumption of…

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Big Mining Deal. Mount Morgan Interests Sold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 4

The largest individual mining deal that has ever taken place in Australia has just been completed. The entire interest of the last…

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Proposed Colliery Agreement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 4

Regarding the published inferences that the Pelaw Main miners are endeavouring to secure an agreement with the proprietor similar to that in existence at Minmi, the lodge secretary, Mr. E…

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Local Coal Development

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 3

The local coal mine continues gradually to increase its output, and is therefore advancing in commercial importance. The miners engaged receive very satisfactory…

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Our Mining Industries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 4

Up to the year 1912, the value of the products of our mining industries is estimated at £229,518,969. A dozen of the lines are upward of a million pounds each as…

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Clever American Swine Glamour of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 6

Various Inventors have [?] for years on the theory that [?] of gold in sea water if Only [?] of extraction could be develop…

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The Mining Situation. Situation Much Brighter

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 7

THE M. Mercury's Newcastle correspondent states that there was yesterday an important development for the better in the local milling situation…

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The Mining Situation. Matters at Newcastle. Newcastle, Friday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 April 1913 · page 5

The mining situation to-day presents no new features, and there have certainly been no developments. Further returns of the lodge ballot to hand show the proposed…

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Maitland Colliery Railways. Companies' Statement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 7

With reference to representations made by a South Maitland district deputation to the East Greta and A.A. Companies on April 9, regarding increased faros and…

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Miners Accept Industrial Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 2

A highly important development has occurred in the Newcastle mining situation. It is a development that not only removes all immediate danger…

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Miners Entomsed and Rescued

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 4

A fall of earth at the Lake Coleridge (New Zealand) Hydro-electric power tunnel entombed two men. Their comrades worked unceasingly, and released…

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American Mining Disasters

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 6

New York, Wednesday.—Two miners are known to be dead and 72 others are feared to have perished as the result of a gas explosion in the Cincinatti Mine…

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Northern Mining Situation. Important Development

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 6

A highly important development occurred on Thursday in the northern mining situation. It is a development that not only removes all immediate danger…

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Australian Mining.—A State Experiment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 4

The experiment initiated by the South Australian Government in State mining is reported to have been a costly and altogether an unprofitable venture. It is…

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The Singleton Argus. Saturday, April 26th. the Southern Miners

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 4

The Southern miners have now been on strike for five weeks, and the trouble does not seem to be much nearer solution than when the men first went out. The…

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Finleyv1lle Mining Disaster. Pittsburg, April 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 5

In regard to the disastrous explosion in the Monongahela coal mine at Finleyville, it is stated that 80 miners are still missing. The debris and the deadly after-damp are…

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The Southern Miners' Strike. a Stormy Meeting. Wollongong, Saturday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1913 · page 5

Indications are that the present strike will not he continued much longer. A sitting of the mining delegates was held to-day, at which the question of a settlement…

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