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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Pilfering Prom Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 6

A fine of £20, in default four Months imprisonment, was imposed in a case heard before Mr. Fletcher, P.M., in the Kurri Kurri Police…

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The Collieries. Majority at Work. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 13

It was reported that work was resumed at the majority of the collieries in the Cessnock district this morning…

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Short Pay for Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 6

Owing to the intervention of the holidays the Pay for colliery, employees this Friday will be very light, and it will not be until the next pay…

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Bellbird Colliery. Securing West Return. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 16

In connection with the work of establishing the main return airway on the west side of the colliery, very satisfactory progress is being made…

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Gold Output. Figures for Queensland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 9

The figures showing the total output of gold in Queensland for 1924 will not be officially issued by the Mines Department for some days, but…

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Mine Disaster. Cage Crashes. London, Jan. 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 2

Fourteen miners received serious injuries through a cage crashing to the bottom of the pit at a colliery at New Chaighall, Edinburgh, this…

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Gold Bulletin. Issued by Junes Department

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 7

Mr. Fitzpatrick, State Minister for Mines, has directed the issue of a bulletin on "Gold," written by Mr. E. J. Kenny, of the Department's export…

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Heavy Fine. Stole Mining Articles. Kukri Kurri Case. Kurr Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 3

George Hyde was lined £20 at Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day, for stealing a member of articles used in mining at Hebburn Colhery No. 2, during the…

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Fell Down Mine. Workman Killed. Lithgow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 5

A workman named Peter Petersen was descending a shaft at a mine near Lithgow when the ladder broke…

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Mining Fatality At Aberdare Colliery Shiftman Buried Under Fall of Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 5

Following closely upon the fatal accident at the Aberdare Central last Thursday another accident with a fatal termination occurred shortly…

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Greta Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

The outlook from the workers' point of view at present here does not look too bright (writes our Greta correspondent) The…

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Locomotive Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 4

According to the evidence of the chief mechanical engineer before a commission which sat in New Zealand, Welsh coal was far better than…

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Increased Coal Exports

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 5

The coal exports from the port of Newcastle last year totalled 4,688,356 tons, an increase of 645,860 tons as compared with the total for 1923…

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Colliery Fatality. Shiftman Killed at Aberdare

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

Arthur Green, a first-class shiftman employed at Aberdare Colliery, was fatally injured whilst at work yesterday…

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Coal Exports. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 2

An increase of 645,860 tons is recorded in the interstate and overseas coal experts from the port of Newcastle for the year, ended December 31, as…

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Gold. Position in South Africa. Capetown, Jan. 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1925 · page 5

A message from Pretoria states that owing to the exchange position the mines recently found it more profitable to have their gold…

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Idle Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 4

The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday that Abermain Nos. 1 and 3 and Neath collieries had resumed yesterday, but…

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Engineers' Cease. Trouble at Coal Mine. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 5

The trouble at Wonthaggi coal mine reached a crises last night, when the engineers union resolved that the men should cease work at midnight…

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Gold Standard. Resumption Plan. Position in South Africa. Capetown, Jan. 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 5

An official announcement has been made regarding the report made to the Government by professor Edward Kemmerer of the Department…

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Broken Hill Proprietary Sinking Its Own Coal Mine

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 January 1925 · page 3

The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. has completed-arrangements and is-hard air work sinking its own coal mine at Belmont, near Nowcastle…

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