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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Miners Entombed. Explosion in Wyoming

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 4

THROUGH an explosion at the Frontier Coal Mine at Kemmerer, Wyoming, 101 men remain entombed, 24 hours after the accident…

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Reported Gold Find

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 August 1923 · page 2

Word has been received of a gold discovery at Bucca Creek, which, if it comes up to expectations, is likely to cause a stir in mining matters in the…

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21 Miners Killed

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

A fire, followed by severe explosions, involving the loss of 21 lives, occurred in the Bellbird colliery, three and a half miles from Cessnock, on…

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Colliery Holocaust. 21 Miners Killed. Fire and Explosions Cause Disaster Heroic Deeds of Rescuers. Cessnock

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

A fire, followed by several explosions, involving the loss of 21 lives, occurred in the Bellbird colliery, three and a half miles from Cessnock, on…

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Miners in Sympathy. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

All work was suspended at the Illawarra collieries yesterday in sympathy with the Bellbird victims…

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Another Miners' Strike. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

The employees at the Mount Kiera colliery at Wollongong have declared a strike, refusing to work with a man who declined to pay a levy for the…

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Help for Miners' Dependents. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

The Soft Goods Warehousemen's Association has given £500 to the Bellbird relief fund. The Bellbird colliery relief funds are…

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Terrible Mining Disaster Trapped [?]Ine. Rescuers [?] Fumes in [?] Twenty-one Miners Lose Lives. Hope Abandoned and Efforts Given Up

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

Twenty men were imprisoned in the workings of the Bellbird Colliery, on the South Maitland field, behind a fire which has…

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Mining Shares Fall. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1923 · page 3

Hatton Bellbird Company's shares fell to 73 on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. In the estimation of the share market the company…

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Colliery Disaster. Twenty-eight Miners Lose Lives. Cessnock

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 5 September 1923 · page 2

Thirty-one men have been imprisoned in the workings of the Bell bird Colliery, on the South Maitland field, behind a fire which has broken…

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Colliery Explosion

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 September 1923 · page 4

Saturday afternoon last at Bellbird colliery, near Cessnock, a fee in the mine, followed by several explosions, caused the death of 21…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. Twenty-eight Miners Lose Lives

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 September 1923 · page 3

THIETY-ONE men were imprisoned in the woskings of the Bellbird Colliery, on the South Maitland field, behind a fire which broke out in the No. 3…

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Why "Synthetic Gold" Is Unlikely

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 September 1923 · page 2

Sporadic reference in newspapers to the possibility of manufacturing. "synthetic" gold occasions alarm among gold-miners. Such a careless…

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Safe Again Bellbird Colliery—Neither Fire nor Gat

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 1

Satisfactory boring at the new tunnel, Bellbird colliery has shown that there is neither fire nor gas there, and that with the staking of a, new…

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Black and Gold's Day Out

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 14 September 1923 · page 3

Saturday was "a day out" for the black and gold jerseys. At Taree both the School and Rovers won it those colors, and in Sydney the most…

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Gold Yield. Last Month's Increase

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 26 September 1923 · page 2

The State gold yield for August amounted to 3676 ounces crude, equal to 3404 ounces fine, valued at [?]14,461. This represents a decided…

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Cablegrams. the Scottish Mining Disaster. Rescue After Nine Days. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 October 1923 · page 5

Ten days' unremitting toil resulted in the rescue of five miners who, with 36 others, were trapped by a sudden rush of water from old workings in…

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Carving in Coal

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 7

That he has sold coal at a higher price than any living man is the claim of a Yorkshire miner, whose hobby is carving…

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Cablegrams. Colliery Disaster. London

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 3

Divers descended the Redding Col[?]y (Falkirk) to-day with a view to [?]escuing three men who it is hoped [?] still alive. They reascended after…

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Germany's Finances. Placed on Gold Basis

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 3

THE Berlin Government has issued a decree placing taxes on a gold basis, thus demonstrating that it is determined to place the country's finances…

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