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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Mining Town Tragedy. Berlin, Sept. 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 September 1913 · page 5

An [?]keeper at Klausthal, a mining town in the Harz Mountains, was shot dead behind his bar by two men. The latter, in seeking to make their…

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Evidence of Bad Coal. London. Sept. 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 September 1913 · page 2

The Board of Trade inquiry into the cause of the railway disaster at Aisgill was resumed at Leeds, the public and members of the press being admitted…

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The Romance of the Rand. a Land of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 September 1913 · page 11

Serious as the great labour dispute on the Rand has been in its immediate" consequences in the rioting and disorder which have marked this Hint efflorescence of…

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Mining Matters. Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 September 1913 · page 6

Although eleven out of the forty-one collieries concerning which information was available on Saturday last worked the full time of eleven days during the past…

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Victorian State Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 September 1913 · page 6

The fortnight's pay, which was distributed at the Victorian State Colliery at Wonthaggi on Friday, amounted to £5774 5s 3d, or about £100 more than the previous…

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Disastrous Cloudburst. Lives and Property Lost. Goldfield, Nevada, Sept. 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 September 1913 · page 5

Five people have been drowned in floods due to a sudden cloudburst. Scores of residences are swamped, and much damage to property has resulted. The…

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Mining

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 2

We learn that a Newcastle company is being formed to work the Rocky Hill gold mine, near Dungog. The reef at Rocky Hill, had…

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Maitland Coalmines. Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Pelaw-[?] Miners' Lodge was held at the Kings's [?] on Sunday, at which Mr. J. Grahame presided. The minutes of committee meetings…

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Rich Gold Find

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 2

A rich gold find is reported from 60 miles north of Meekatharra, West Australia, and 16 miles west of Ruby Well. A prospector, named Holden, in testing…

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Australia's Richest Mine. Mount Morgan

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 4

A few facts about Mount Morgan (Q.):—-Up to July of this year it has yielded £18,000,000, and paid nearly £8,000,000 in dividends. To-day the…

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Moonan Flat. Mining Revival

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 2

Mining operations at Dry Creek bare taken a decided turn towards revival, and there is every indication that the locality will soon be properly tested…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 September 1913 · page 3

The Northern Coal Miners' Wages Board, consisting of His Honor, Mr. Justice Edmunds (chairman), and Messrs. E. Peters, and N. J. Clark, representing the…

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Rich Gold Find

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 September 1913 · page 2

A rich gold find is reported from 6d miles north of Meekatharra, West Australia, and 16 miles west of Ruby Well. A prospector, named Holden,…

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Pelaw-main Colliery. Another Stoppage. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 September 1913 · page 5

The Pelaw-Main colliery is idle as the result of a dispute between the machine-men and the management. The trouble has been caused by the refusal of certain shift…

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Miners' Rescue Stations Report of the Inspector

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 September 1913 · page 6

Mr. W. Humble, Senior Inspector of Collieries, who at the request of Mr. Edden, Minister of Mines, made special inquiries concerning mine rescue station work during his…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 September 1913 · page 6

The Northern Coalminers' Wages Board sat again yesterday at Newcastle, when a suggestion put forward by Mr. Lewis (for the Colliery Employees' Federation) that a…

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Miners' Wages Board. Control of Strikes. Newcastle, Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 September 1913 · page 5

The proceedings of the Miners' Wages Board were suddenly interrupted this morning in consequence of the strike yesterday afternoon and to-day at Pelaw-Main…

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Pelaw Main Colliery. a Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 September 1913 · page 4

The Pelaw-Main Colliery trouble was fully discussed at a largely attended meeting of the employees held last evening, at which the executive officers, Messrs. D…

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Mining Matters. Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 September 1913 · page 14

Although eleven out of the forty-one collieries concerning which information was available on Saturday last worked the full time of eleven days during the past…

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Colliery Proprietors. Association Breaking Up

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 September 1913 · page 9

Mr. Kelynack, counsel for the colliery proprietors in his address recently in the case for the payment of small coal before the Miners Wages Board, stated that the…

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