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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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Mining Wardens. Conference in Sydney. Labour Conditions on Gold Leases

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 14

A report has been presented to Mr. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Mines, regarding the conference of mining wardens, held at the Mines…

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Colliery Fatality. Shiftman Killed at Aberdare

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 7

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

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Fell Down Mine. Workman Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 16

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

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Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 9

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 62,485 tons, of which 57,210 tons represented…

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Coal Exports. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 16

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

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Narrow Escape. Fall of Stone in Colliery. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 5

Robert Evans and Richard Strain were working in No. 2 dip in Aberdare South Colliery last evening when Evans after putting in…

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Gold Find. Rich Discovery Reported

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 4

What is said to be the best gold find for years is reported from Hill End. Matheys and Davis, prospectors, have discovered a reef only a few feet from…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 3

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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Gold Standard South Africa. Commission's Report. CAPETOWN, Jan. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 5

The full report on the expediency of South Africa returning to the gold standard, made to the Government by Professor Edward…

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Gold. South African Problem. Sell or Mint. Capetown, Jan. 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 13

With reference to a cable to the effect that no gold had been offered in the London market since January 2, because it paid Rand producers…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 2

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

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The Collieries. Six Work Full Time

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 2

Full time of eleven days was worked at only six of the collieries of the South Maitland and Newcastle coalfields for the fortnight ended on…

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Synthetic Gold. American Experiments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 2

The feasibility of manufacturing gold, thought at a prohibitive cost, is to be determined by experiments chemists being conducted by well-known chemists at…

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Mines Idle. "Holiday For' Tom Walsh." Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 January 1925 · page 4

Abermain, No. 1, Aberdare Central, and Cossnock No. 2 Collieries were idle to-day as a direct result of the Waterside trouble…

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Collieries Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 5

Owing to the slackness of trade, resulting from the shipping strike, several collieries in the Cessnock district have been temporarily [?]…

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New Coal Mines B.H.P. Venture. Site at Belmont

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 5

A. Newcastle message to the Sunday "News" reads:— By sinking a mine at Belmont, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company is…

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Local and General Bellbird Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

Work was resumed morning in the No. 1 tunnel at Bellbird, which had been idle since the disaster 16 months ago. The…

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Maoris' Claims. No Gold to Squander

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

A Native Land Court began at Tuahiwi, near Kaiapoi (N.Z.) the hearing of the Ngaitabu tribe's claims, under what is known as the "Kemp…

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Newcastle. Sydney's Future Rival, Influence of Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

Giving evidence before the Royal, Commission on New States which resumed its sittings at the Chief Secretary's Department at the Chief…

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Drastic Threat. Pelaw-main Miners Resolution. Kurri, Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 5

Pelaw-Main miners last evening carried a resolution stating that unless the services of a certain doctor were dispensed with certain action…

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