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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Western Miners. Sharing Work Proposal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 8

A conference was held at Lithgow, between representatives of the Lithgow owners and delegates for the Western Miners Federation…

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Colliery Fatality. Fall at Aberdare Extended. Man Killed Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 16

A shocking fatality occurred in Aberdare Extended Colliery at about half-past ton on Tuesday. Benjamin Johnston, 30 years of…

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Soaring Coal Prices. Bepliners Alarmed. London, August 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 2

Berliners are aghast at the prospect of having to pay 35,000,000 marks a ton for coal, in consequence of the Coal Council's warning of a…

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No Conference. Southern Coal Position. Slump in the West

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 16

Southern coalowners still hold that, there is a darg at the Helensburg pit, and they stand by their statement that until this has been…

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Use of Small Coal. Important Discovery. London, August 21

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1923 · page 2

Professor Hingsworth, of the South Wales School of Mines, after sixteen years research, claims that he has produced by the low…

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The Muswellbrook Coalfield Engineers' Report. "An Important Coal Mining Centre."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 1

The annual report of the Department of Mines for 1922, recently published contains an interesting report on the Muswellbrook coalfields by…

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Origin of Coal Measures

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 1

Professor Sir Edgeworth David, dealing with the Permian problem at the Pan-Pacific Congress, said the question of the geological age of the…

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The Laurentic's Gold £7,000,000 Salvaged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 3

A late Reuter's cable states that, with the exception of a few bars of gold, the £7,000,000 worth of treasure in the torpedoed Laurentie, sunk in…

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OVER £60 a Head. Australian Production. Mining Decline

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 3

The total value of all pastoral products in Australia in 1921-22 was £69,254,000. The total value of the productions…

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Redhead Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1923 · page 6

The position at Redhead Colliery remaines unchanged. The mine has been idle for a considerable time and the employees are apparently…

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Colliery Troubles Wallaran Resumes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1923 · page 6

The trouble which recurred at Wallarah Colliery over the non-payment of certain money, which the whecters said they were cntitled to…

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Rush for Gold. Disappointed and Disgusted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1923 · page 2

ST.JOHN'S (Newfoundland), Aug. 26 Several Australian mining men have returned to St. John's utterly disgusted with the fake news of a…

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Cheap Coal. Mr. Baddeley Asks a Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1923 · page 2

My. Baddeley, M.L.A., asked the Premier in the Legislative Assembly if, in view of his statement as to the possibility of getting cheap coal, he…

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Trade Slack. West Wallsend Colliery Closing. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 August 1923 · page 5

The whole of the miners of the West Wallsend colliery have received fourteen days notice, commencing to-morrow, owing to slackness of trade…

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Mine Electricians

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 31 August 1923 · page 4

The examination for candidates for certificates of competency mine electricians under the Coal Mines Regulation Act take place in…

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The Coal Measures of Roxburgh

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 August 1923 · page 1

Reporting in the annual report of the Department of Mines, Messrs, M. Morrison and B. J. Kenny write as follows in dealing with the coal…

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Colliery Fatality. the Inquest

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1923 · page 9

The inquest regarding the death of Benjamin Johnston, who was fatally injured in the Aberdare Extended Colliery on Tuesday, was held at the…

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Trade Slack. West Wallsend Colliery Closing. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1923 · page 1

The whole of the miners of the West Wallsend colliery have received fourteen days notice commencing tomorrow owing to slackness of trade…

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Rush for Gold. Disappointed and Disgusted. St. John's" (Newfoundland), Aug. 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1923 · page 2

Several Australian mining men have returned to St. John's utterly disgusted with the fake news of a gold find which took them to the…

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Singleton Warden's Court Thursday, August 30th. (Before Mr G. James, Metropolitan Mining Warden. Authority to Enter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 September 1923 · page 8

The following applications for authority to enter and prospect for coal and shale were dealt with:— Melville Anderson, 165½ acres, Parish…

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