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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

1,671 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 84

Dog Rescued From Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 8

Mr. Joseph Tindall, a Sheffield man, deserves credit for having saved a dog from a miserable death. "Please save my dog!" exclaimed the…

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Have We Any Coal?

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 1

From a ton of borehole coal the Broken Hill Proprietary Company obtained 12 cwt. of coke, 40lbs of nut breeze used as blast furnace fuel, 160 lbs. of fine breeze which…

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The Engine Drivers' Strike. Gunnedah Mine Resumes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 8

The Gunnedah Colliery has agreed to the demands of the engine drivers and firemen and work has been resumed at the mine…

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Coal Crisis Government's Serious View. Cook's Bitter Outburst. LONDON, June [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 5

The Government takes a serious view of the breakdown of negotiations between representatives of the coal owners and miners…

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The Coal Strike

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 6

The hope is expressed that the conference with the Federal Industrial Peace Commissioner, Mr Hibble, on Monday, may lead to a termination of…

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A Gold Westerly

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 6

A bleak and cold westerly wind was in evidence yesterday, and after the mild weather lately experienced the change was pronounced and severe. A…

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Artificial Gold Exhibit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 8

The first sample of synthetic gold which has reached this country is to be an exhibit in the collection of elements at the American Museum of…

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Gold Yield. Queensland Figures

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

The gold yield for Queensland so far this year shows a considerable falling off compared with the first five months of last year. To date…

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Migration. Miners As Settlers. London, June 7

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

In the House of Commons, Mr. Leopold C. Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions, agreed with Mr. P. A. Hurd's, M.P., suggestion that…

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Enginedrivers' Dispute. Monday's Conference. Miners President's Views

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 7

Mr. T. Hoare, president of the Northern Miners' Federation, on being asked yesterday what were tho prospects of a settlement of the…

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Coal Crisis. an Important Step. London, June 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 12

A step which may go a long way towards ending the coal deadlock has bean taken by Mr. Evan Williams, M.A., the chairman of the…

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Mining Crisis. Interesting Soviet Data. London, June 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

Mr. A. J. Cook, in a statement made after the mining conference, said that there does not appear to be the slightest possibility of a further…

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Coal at Grass Quality Affected by Exposure. Railway Supplies. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 3

Inquiries snow that there are about 60,000 tons of coal belonging to the Commonwealth stacked at Carrington. None of it came from the Maitland…

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Two Charged. the Goldfields Tragedy. Other Men Questioned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1926 · page 16

Philip John Treffene and Evan Clarke, who were arrested in connection with the West Australia goldfields tragedy, were brought before the…

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Search for Gold. in the Ocean

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 2

The United, Bureau of Fisheries has been asked to co-operate in a certain search for gold in the ocean along the North American…

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Coal Conference. Adjourned to Thursday. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

The compulsory coal conference adjourned until Thursday without arriving at a decision…

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Coal Crisis Scotching Soviet Propaganda. Creeping Industrial Paralysis. LONDON, June 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

The Foreign Office's concise Note to the Russian Soviet Government protesting against it sending the money with the Trade Unions'…

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Startling Evidence the Goldfields Murders. Graves Drawn For Detectives. KALGOORLIE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 5

The police, who are inquiring into the goldfields murders have come upon some startling evidence. They were searching the premises…

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Harvest for Small Collieries

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 6

The small collieries hare reaped, a harvest during the weeks of the strike. They have been working at pressure to supply the demands for…

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Colliery Mec[?]s

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 4

At a meeting of the executive of the Colliery Mechanics Association held at the week-end consideration was given to the question of taking…

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