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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

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Work at Collieries

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 2

Fourteen collieries worked full time during the fortnight ended Friday last. Elemore Tunnel, Northern Extended, Co-operative, and…

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CESSNOCK No. 2 Mine Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 3

Cesnock No. 2 Colliery was thrown idle yesterday. It was claimed that one bord in the mine is unsufficiently ventilated. Two miners who toil in…

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St. Helier's Colliery First Train Oyer New Line

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 2

The first train was taken over the length of railway from Grasstree station to St. Helliers Colliery on Saturday last. Everything passed of…

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Serious Mining Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 3

A clipper named James Snedden, a resident of Weston, employed at Abermain No. 2 Colliery, met with an accident of a serious nature, as…

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Coal Lumpers. New Award Claims

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 April 1924 · page 5

In the industrial Arbitration Court, mr. Justice Edmunds began the hearting of the claims of the Sydney Wharf Lumpers for an award. This was the…

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A New Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 April 1924 · page 3

Mr. John Londer supplies the information that the first train to St. Heliers coal mine was run from Grastree, on the Great Northern line,…

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Great Depth of Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 April 1924 · page 11

Mines continue to sink deeper, says "Science Siftings" quite a number having pricked the earth more than a mile, though the St. John del Rey in…

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Colliery Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 4

A clipper named J. kemp. junr. employed at the Abermain No. 1 Colliery sustained a fractured arm and other minor injuries while at work…

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Illness of Miners' Treasurer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 4

Mr. A. Lewis district treasurer of be Miners' Federation, is stated to be making favourable progress towards recovery from his recent…

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Mount Isa Mines Broken Hill Rivalled

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 4

Mount Isa, hitherto an unknown cattle run in the Cloncurry district, North Queensland, has suddenly become Australia's mining Mecca. Prominent…

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Local and General Miners Affected by False Rumor

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 4

The Aberdare Extended Colliery was idle yesterday as the result of an unfounded rumor concerning the death of Mr. A. Lewis, of the…

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Barrier Rivalled. Mount Isa Mines. a Rich Field. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1924 · page 5

Mount Isa, hitherto an unknown cattle run in the Cloncurry district, North Queensland, has suddenly become Australia's mining Mecca…

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A New Colliery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1924 · page 6

Mr. John Loader supplies the information that the first train to St. Hellers coal mine was run from Grastree, on the Great Northern line…

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The Collieries. Work for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1924 · page 15

Full time of eleven days was put in at fourteen collieries of the Newcastle and South Maitland districts for the fortnight ended Saturday…

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Coal Lumpers. New Award Claims

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 April 1924 · page 3

In the Industrial Arbitration Court, Mr. Justice Edmunds began the hearing of the claims of the Sydney Wharf Lumpers for an award. This was the…

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In Difficulties. Indians Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 4

The coal trade of India been for some time in serious difficulties. As stated a few months ago, colliery proprietors were complaining of the…

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Miners' Diseases. Medical Examinations. Compensation Scheme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 8

The New South Wales Cabinet has lecided that the medical examinations [?]commended by the Board of Trade in connection with miners' diseases, such…

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Papuan Gold. Assay of Busai Saples

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 4

While in Papua recently Mr. T. W. Horton inspected the Busa[?] gold mines, and sampled the various lodes in the tunnel that was being driven from the…

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A Gold Snap. Rain From the West. Some Good Falls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 4

Unsettled weather came in from the West on Sunday, but there was little rain locally during the day, although there was a distinctly…

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Subsidences. in Coal Mining Districts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 April 1924 · page 4

Following a ten-year study of surface subsidence in coal-mining districts made by the United States Department of the Interior through the…

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