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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1906

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Mount Jasper Copper Mine

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 15 August 1906 · page 3

The provisional directors and secretary of the Mount Jasper Copper Prospecting Company paid a visit of inspection to the mine on Monday, last week. The property is situated at Jasper's Peak, about six…

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Assistance for Prospectors. Department of Mines and Agriculture Sydney, 15th August, 1906

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 22 August 1906 · page 3

SIR,--With reference to your letter of the 7th instant, asking that effect be given to the resolution of the Conference of Progress Associations recently held at Taree, "that the Government be asked to…

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Yours and Mine

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 8

My neighbour hugs the found belief That be can taste of music's joys. He often strums; I hide my grief, Remarking, vainly, "What a noise!"…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 4

The final payment £775,000 was recently made by English capitalists for the mines, etc., owned by the Great Cobar Copper syndicate. The…

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Collieries Strike

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 13 September 1906 · page 5

The whole of the Maitland collieries suspended operations yesterday. Owing to the dog watch grievance the men refused to work, and the proprietors closed down the…

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The Coal Crisis

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 September 1906 · page 4

Once more the Newcastle district (for it is very doubtful if it will be found practicable to confine the trouble to the Maitland mines) is threatened with a grave industrial crisis…

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Mining at Huntingdon

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1906 · page 2

Mining matters are looking up a bit in this vicinity. At the river, Beecham is doing good work at his tunnel going into the hill, and he is doing his work well, in a…

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In the Days of the Californian Gold Rush

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 September 1906 · page 2

Not many miles from Shasta City, in California, is a gulch of which a strange story is told. It is a deep ravine, with the rocks showing all…

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The Coal Difficulty Settled. Thanksgiving Services

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 3

All the miners' lodges of both Newcastle and Maitland districts have accepted the mine owners' terms in regard to the hewing rate, and the…

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The Coal Difficulty Settled. Newcastle, Saturday afternoon

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 3

ALL the miners' lodges of both Newcastle and Maitland districts have accepted the mine owners' terms in regard to the hewing rate and the abolition of the night shift…

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Prospecting Vote, N.S.W. Department of Mines and Agriculture, Sydney, 12th September, 1906

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 26 September 1906 · page 3

SIR,--I am directed to inform you that, in view of the recommendation of the Prospecting Board, the Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has approved of the following grant from the Prospecting Vote…

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Telegraphic. Sydney, Tuesday. the Colliery Strike

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 5

All the northern collieries resume work on Thursday…

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Broken Hill Mining

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 5

Broken Hill mine managers state that the necessary work cannot be proceeded with owing to a shortage of men…

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SYDNEY, Wednesday. the Mining Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 September 1906 · page 5

The Mining Bill was further considered in the Assembly. An amendment allowing for ballot for claims in the case of simultaneous applications was adopted…

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Short Story. a Christmas Present for Mine Host

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 9

A CHRISTMAS which I shall never forget was that which I spent in Paris during the siege. I do not intend, however to harrow my…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 4

Mr. L. Black wood, of Sydney, one of the partners in The Helena Buttery, situated on the Little Manning, paid a visit to Coneac last week to…

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Daring Gold Robbery

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 4

A daring robbery of gold are was perpetrated in the underground works of the Great Boulder Proprietary Mine Kalgoorlie, on Sunday night. The thieves climbed down…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 4

Mr. R. Bartlett brought to Gloucester yesterday a fine parcel of gold from the Commonwealth Claim, Craven Creek, an a result of a crushing from…

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Willi Copper Mining Company

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 October 1906 · page 9

IN this issue wo publish prospectus of the above Company which is being formed to take over the mineral blocks at Willi Willi held by a local syndicate…

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Mining

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 4

Mr. R. Bartlett, of the Commonwealth Mine, Craven Creek, brought another fine parcel of gold to Gloucester on Saturday last. 17 tons of stone…

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