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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1908

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South Coast Gold Mining

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 5

Since the recent heavy, returns from the Nerrigundah mines, there is a distinct stir in reef mining on the old field, and several promising…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 17

Mr. Knapp, who for some time past has been superintending boring operations for coal in the Black Rock district of North Queensland, states…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 11

A few weeks ago a claim was made upon the Southern Coal-owners' Association for compensation to day-labor employees who worked the long…

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Trouble Among Coal Lumpers. the Southern Collieries Agency Concerned

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 2

To-day the Coal Lumpers' Union were to hold a special meeting to decide on what course of action it will take in consequence of the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 4

The Mount Kembla miners' lodge met on Monday night and adopted the minutes of the last delegate meeting. Dissatisfaction exists over…

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The Coal Trade of the Orient. the Commissioner's Report

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 30 October 1908 · page 5

In his report of tho coal trade of the Orient during the year 1907, Mr. Suttor, State Commercial Commissioner in the East, states that the…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 18

Experiments on a very large scale are being conducted by a committee of the British Mining Association into the occurrence of explosions in…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 11

Mt. Kembla lodge on Monday night adopted the minutes of the delegate meeting. There is dissatisfaction among the miners with what they…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 5

The members of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association are very wrath at the statements which are alleged to have been made by Mr…

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Lithgow Mining Matters

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 7

Mr. E. Truscott, general secretary of the Western Minors Association, on Saturday received a reply from the secretary of the Western Coal…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 17

The Queensland Government has promised to subsidise the Cooktown Coal Prospecting Association on the pound for pound principle, and to…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 11

The members of the Association are very wroth about statements alleged to have been made by Mr. Mays (president of the Airly Miners)…

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Selling Price of Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 18

A question of general interest at the present time, not only to this district but to the State and Commonwealth, is—What will be the…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 3

"Rush O! .Rush O!" was a common enough cry along in the fifties and sixties, and the writer has a, personal recollection of many of them—…

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Colliery Screenings Victorian Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 22

A correspondent, writing from trim (Vic.), states that considerable trouble is being experienced tooth at that place and Jumbunna owing to…

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Mount Pleasant Mine. Resumed Work This Morning

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 2

After being closed down for some three weeks on account of an accident to the hauling gear, the whistle blew for a start at nine…

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Old Bulli Colliery. Serious Position. Public Meeting Convened

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 4

Closing down an active industry is always a national calamity whether caused by industrial trouble, limited capital, trade depression, or…

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 3

How much gold was won at Canoona, no one-can say—more, probably, than the authorities ever knew, records were not very carefully…

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Colliery Screenings Maitland Field

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 16

Delegates from the various lodges on the Maitland coalfield were appointed some months ago to review the rates and forking conditions in…

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Bulli Colliery Crisis a Public Appeal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 21 November 1908 · page 11

The people of Bulli have for some considerable time been greatly interested in the effort of the Bulli mine proprietary to work through the…

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