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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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A Gold Miner's Plain Story

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 3

A Victim to Indigestion, and Mother Seigel's Syrup was Worth More than Gold to him. W. C. Consins, of King Street, Bendigo, Victoria, is a gold miner by occupation, and…

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Colliery Screenings Coalfields of Australia

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 18

In a paper on the Coalfields of Australia, read by Professor David before the Sydney University Engineering Society, the writer urged that…

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Colliery Screenings Goal Commission Victoria

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 14 April 1906 · page 18

The director of the geological survey of Victoria (Mr. E. J. Dunn) gave evidence before the Royal Commission (V.) last week. He said the…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 18

Last year Western Australia produced 127,364 tons of coal valued at '£55,312, as against 138,550 tons in 1904…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 21 April 1906 · page 9

The quarterly delegate[?] held in Tattersall's Hotel[?] on Wednesday. Present[?] Hicks (president), S. Bi[?]…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 28 April 1906 · page 18

Extensive machinery is being installed by. the Caledonia Coal Company at Aberdare, to cope with a large, output of coal. The winding…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 18

Wages in connection with British mining, on the whole, showed a slight decline in 1905, a result due mainly to reductions in the…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 5 May 1906 · page 21

A meeting of the Conciliation Board will be held in Sydney on Tuesday next, at which the following matters will be dealt with Proposed uniform cavilling…

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Ventilation of Coal Mines. the Lithgow Case

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 4

In the High Court last week, in the Lithgow case, Broughall v. Watson, Dr. Cullen and Mr. Broomfield, instructed. by Mr. S. M. Stephens,…

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Mining Intelligence

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 11 May 1906 · page 4

The Victorian Coal Commission took further evidence in Melbourne last week. Mr. Nathaniel Levy said he hold several mineral lenses in the Cape…

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Mining Intelligence

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 15 May 1906 · page 2

In consequence of the busy nature of the coal trade at Newcastle, there is loud complaint, about the inadequacy of the trucking facilities at the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 2

A special delegate meeting of the Illawarra Mines Employees' Association was held at Tattersall's Hotel on Thursday, for the purpose of receiving…

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The Coal Vend

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 May 1906 · page 4

A spirit of justice und fairness to say nothing of a reasonable knowledge of the ethics of commerce, might at least be expected from free trade…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 18

Victoria has enormous deposits of brown coal in many parts of its area and the possibility of utilising them has frequently been carefully…

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IlLAWARRA MINERS

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 19 May 1906 · page 12

A special meeting of the Delegate Board, Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association, was held at Tattersall's Hotel, Wollongong, on Thursday…

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The Dog Watch in Coal Mines

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 2

In consequence of the refusal of the proprietors to do away with the night shift at the South Maitland collieries, the whole of the men, numbering…

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Great Cobar Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 2

One of the largest sales of mining property made in this State was practically concluded on Wednesday, when the representative of an English…

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Mining Intelligence

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1906 · page 2

The total income of the New South Wales Miners' Federation last year was £124,569. The shipments of coal from…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 26 May 1906 · page 4

The cost of labor both in the mining and manufacture of minerals is less in America than in Great Britain. Electric coal-cutting machinery,…

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Sydney Harbor Collieries

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1906 · page 3

Sinking operations have been steadily continued in the Jubilee shaft of the Sydney Harbor collieries at Balmain for some months past, and last…

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