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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

221 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 12

Mining Discovery

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 October 1902 · page 2

We[?]lands and party at Block Range have made what is regarded as an important last discovery, a well-defined [?] & feet in width having been discovered in the…

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Cablegrams. the American Coal Strike. London, 6th October

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 9 October 1902 · page 4

The owners of the Pennsylvania coal mines declare that the colliers' strike does not paralyse their operations through lack of workers, but…

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The Rand Gold-field. London, October 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 26

Last month Mr. Edgar Rathbone, late Government inspector of the Rand gold mines, reported that be had discovered a new main reef in the Witwatersrand basin…

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Damage by Mine Water

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 2

Complaints are made that water from the Corowa Deep Lead mine is making the road near M[?] form impassable…

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The Gold Yield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 29

The usual return compiled by the Department of Alines shows that the gold yield of New South Wales for the month of September was 34,864oz crude, equal to 30,420oz…

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British Coal. London, October 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 27

The scarcity of coal in America, caused by the great strike in Pennsylvania, has resulted in large quantities of coal being imported from Great Britain…

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The Pennsylvanian Miners. London, October 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 27

Mr Thomas Burt, M.P. for Morpeth, and secretary of the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Association, declares that the Pennsylvanian miners are the poorest and lowest paid…

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Kruger's Gold. London, October 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 26

A striking letter has been published by the Johannesburg Leader. It is written by Mr. Andreas Vander Merve, who declares that the appeal for assistance addressed to the…

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Large Gift of Coal. London, October 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 27

The International Mercantile Marine Company announces that they are about to purchase in England 50,000 tons of coal for domestic purposes. The coal is to be used…

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The French Strike. 70,000 Miners Involved. London, October 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 October 1902 · page 21

The mining strike in France has now assumed formidable dimensions. In the north of France, in the department of Loire, and at Carmoux, in the south of France, 70,000…

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Spruce Mining Beetle

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 1

Government experts have reported on one of the most destructive forest insects yet known. It is the spruce mining beetle, whose deadly borings in the bark…

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Cablegrams. American Coal Strike. London, 8th October

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 11 October 1902 · page 4

Notwithstanding the failure of the recent conference at Washington, which was held as his initiative between representative mine owners and Mr…

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The Transvaal As It Is. Obstacles to Progress. Position of the Rand Mines. Johannesburg, 12th September

The Riverine Grazier · Thursday 16 October 1902 · page 4

Notwithstanding all the drawbacks, ray impression is favorable to this being a fair pastoral country. If land and stock were cheap and diseases fewer…

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Victorian Gold Yield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 31

There has been a serious falling off in the gold yield of the state during the last nine months. The returns for the month of September have been prepared by the…

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Corowa Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 3

Boring operations have been going ahead for the past few months in connection with the Deep Land Gold Mining Extended Co, and from the present bore,…

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Appeal to British Coal-owners. London, October 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 29

The Mayor of Toronto, in Canada, has sent a cable message to Cardiff, in Wales, appealing to British mine-owners to give a preference to Canada in supplying coal at…

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Important Mining News. Eskdale and St. Elmo

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 26

Hearing of valuable developments in the gold mines of St. Elmo and district, and knowing how very little is understood by the general public of the importance of reefing in the…

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The Coal Strike in France. Non-unionists Armed. London, October 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 29

Out of 120,000 coal miners in France 100,000 have struck work. All the miners at Montcean-les- Mines, in the department of Saone et Loire, and the bulk of those at…

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The American Coal Strike. Attitude of the Owners. London October 10

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 October 1902 · page 29

There is no prospect of the termination of the great coal strike in Pennsylvania, Mr. Mitchell, the president of the Miners' Union, has declined President Roosevelt's…

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Cablegrams. the American Coal Strike. London

The Riverine Grazier · Saturday 18 October 1902 · page 4

Mr J. P. Morgan, the great American trust organiser, who has been urged to essay the task of bringing the great coal strike to a termination,…

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