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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Successful Antimony Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1923 · page 4

A successful discovery of antimony has been made by Mr. T. A. Hancock, near Gresford. The site of the shaft is situated about nine miles…

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Miners' Officials. Result of the Ballot. Messrs Rees and Willis Elected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1923 · page 5

Messrs. D. Rees and A. C. Willis have been re-elected general president and general secretary respectively of the Workers' Industrial…

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Hebburn Collieries. Work Resumed. Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 December 1923 · page 5

Hebburn No. 1 Colliery was working to-day. The difficulty with the wheelers who wished to be paid for shift…

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Mining Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 December 1923 · page 7

As a result of a fall of timber in the Central Colliery yesterday afternoon Mr. Jim Duffin was admitted to the Cessnock District Hospital…

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Fall of Coal. Miner Injured. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 December 1923 · page 5

[?] Duffin, a miner, employed at Aberdare Central Colliery, was injured by a fall of coal yesterday. He had four ribs broken and also…

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Record Colliery Pays

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 4

Record pays were distributed at he Pelaw-Main and Richmond-Main Collieries yesterday, following upon the recent record output. Although…

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Colliery Disputes. Seven Pits Idle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 7

As a result of disputes at a number of collieries on the northern, coalfields over 1000 men are unemployed. According to advice received in Sydney…

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Northern Collieries Mr. McDONALD New Chairman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 7

Mr. C. M. M'Donald has been appointed chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association. The new chairman is at present…

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The Coal Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 12

All the local companies to the number of four, have now government contracts for the supply of coal, which indicates that the industry is…

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Coal Exports. Shipments at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 6

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 118,749 tons, of which 90,827 tons, represented…

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Determined Miners. Lithgow Men Prefer Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 5

Seventy Ivanhoe (Lithgow) miners, recently fined for absenting themselves from work without lawful excuse, will go to gaol father than…

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Gold Ring As Sexometer. Conclusive Tests at London "Zoo."

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1923 · page 11

Results startling in their success have been achieved by a primitive form of sexometer used in the Zoo insect house, writes "A.E.H." in the…

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Only Scratched. Canada's Gold Belt. London, Dec. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 December 1923 · page 5

The Duke of Manchester, on arriving from Canada said that he went to the Dominion prospecting for gold. He was astonishe dat what he found…

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The Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 December 1923 · page 4

Work at the collieries in the Northern district will cease on Saturday, and, will be resumed on January 2, l924…

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Coal for Railways

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 December 1923 · page 2

Tenders received by the Railway Commissioners for coal supplies during the next twelve months total 1,071,000 tons. The bulk of the…

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Danger in Mines Proposed Rescue Stations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 December 1923 · page 8

The question of the establishment of rescue stations in the coalmining districts has also been engaging the sympathetic consideration of the…

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Lithgow Miners Obdurate Prefer Gaol to Fine

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 December 1923 · page 4

Seventy Ivanhoe (Lithgow) miners, recently fined for absenting themselves from work without, lawful excuse, will go to gaol rather than return…

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Miners Going to Gaol Refusal to Pay Fines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 December 1923 · page 2

Seventy miners of Ivanhoc Colliery, in the Lithgow district, recently fined for absenting themselves from work without lawful excuse…

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East Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 December 1923 · page 4

A meeting of members of the East Greta Miners Lodge will be held in Coulton's Hall, East Greta, on Friday next, December 21, at 11.30 a.m…

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Mine Disaster. Thirty Men Entombed. Little Hope of Rescue. SHANGHAI, Dec. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 December 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Tokio correspondent reports that in consequence of a collapse in a coalmine at Kasuya, Fukuoka prefecture, thirty miners…

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