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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1909

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The Broken Hill Mines

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 June 1909 · page 4

MINING matters arc becoming steadier, And the fact that nearly a dozen directors and prominent mining men have arrived within tho past couple of days…

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Broken Hill Mines

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 6

R[?]KEN Hill's position with regard to the mines is looking better now than it has for many months. Block 10 is once more back to a full…

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Portuguese Mine Flooded

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 July 1909 · page 8

An underground river has flooded a mine in Portugal. Fourteen bodies have been recovered and 37 miners are still missing…

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The First Canadian Minister of Mines

Nambucca News · Friday 2 July 1909 · page 8

The Hon. William Templeman, who is to be the first Canadian Minister of Mines, was born in Ontario of Scottish parents sixty years ago, and entered the…

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Coal Loading

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 9

INTO the industrial and mercantile life of the great coal city of Newcastle there has lately come a new and unexpected disturbing element, which may have…

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An Unsafe Mine

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 July 1909 · page 11

In the New South Wales Assembly last night Mr. Edden made some very serious statements as to the safety of the Hetton coal mine in the…

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Mining Disaster

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1909 · page 11

A telegram from Queensland states that four men named J. Walsh, S. Goodman, J. Williams and R. Jameson were injured by a rush of…

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Mining Fatality

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 August 1909 · page 11

A shocking accident occurred at the Scottish mine at Gympie (Q.) yesterday. Two men named William Edwards and Michael…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Two Men Killed and One Severely Injured

Macleay Argus · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 15

A TERRIBLE mining accident occurred at Bullahdelah, just south, of the Manning, on Friday on the Alum Mountain…

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Terrible Mining Accident. Buried Under Tons of Rock. Two Men Killed, One Severely Injured

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 14

A terrible mining accinent occurred at Bullahdeiah on Friday of last week on the Alum Mountain, About 100 tons of rook from the…

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A Coal Box

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 5

The question of economising space is one that forces itself upon many families; especially those living in small flats, where such a thing as a…

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A Mine Content

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 6

Sweet are the thoughts that savoura of content: The quiet winad is richer than a crown:…

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Franklin's Fortune. a Mining Story

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 7

Chisholm came out on the hold plazza tao Join the little group of then gathered about the door. They were an oddly assorted crowd, the…

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Sleeping on Gold

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 September 1909 · page 4

The practice of hiding money away in all manner of out-of-the-way corners is by no means modern. In the old days, according to "Gleanings…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 4 September 1909 · page 11

A telegram from Melbourne states that a bad accident occurred yesterday at the Berry United Co's mine at Helendale. A portion of the…

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The Tanami Rush. Little Water and Much Gold. Big Rush in Prospect

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1909 · page 3

Mr. M. P. Durack has just returned to Perth, West Australia. He states that the road from Wyndham to Tanami goldfield via, Gordon Downs is 310…

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"Spotted Fever" Epidemic. Among German Miners

Nambucca News · Friday 10 September 1909 · page 8

The Dusseldorf correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 1st May:-- An epidemic of "spotted fever," or…

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Bald Hill Mine

Nambucca News · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 4

Prospectus for the floatation of the Bald Hill Mine at Macksville, to which we referred last week Mr. J. G. O'Ryan has been appointed secretary, and under…

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Potash Mine Bought by Prussian Government

Nambucca News · Friday 17 September 1909 · page 7

The "Financial News" (London) says that the Prussian Government has made an offer, subject to the sanction of the Prussian Diet, of LI,500,000 for the…

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Fight with- Fire at Sea. Blazing Coal and Sulphur

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 14

Gaaphic accounts of how the steamship Lord Londonderry went to her doom off the coast of Portugal were given by members of the crew on their…

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