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Mining & the mines, 1904

390 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 20

Coal Ordered in Wales

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 2

The shipping companies at Cardiff received orders from Japan during the month of February for over 150,000 tons of Welsh coal to be despatched to…

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American Coal Miners. Strike Against a Reduction in Pay

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 3

Several thousands of the [?] coal miners engaged in American coal mines have threatened to paralyse the industry by going out on [?]…

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America Guards Her Mines. Soldiers Sent to Korea

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 2

A Reuter's correspondent has dug out the fact that sixty American soldiers have been sent to guard the American-owned gold mines near Unsan,…

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The Japanese Torpedo Boats. Plenty of Welsh Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 2

It has been stated that Japan has on hand sufficient A I best Welsh coat to suffice for the wants of her fleet of destroyers for the period of twelve…

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American Coal Strike. London, Monday. in the Bitumenous Deposits

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 2

Twenty thousand coal minera, employed in the bitumenous coal deposits in the States of Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania, have stated…

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Arsenic and Gold

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 1

By a singular change of circumstances, the gold-miners of Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, who for years were baffled in trying to…

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Dynamiting Unsuccessful. Mines Carried Down the Stream. Later

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

Another report says that Japanese emissareis are still busy making trouble for the Russian bear in other portions of the world than Korea and…

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Loading Coal at Sea. Russia Buys an American Invention

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

An American apparatus, specially adopted for the rapid loading of coal at sea, has been urgently ordered by the Russian Government for its Baltic…

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American Coal Miners. a Strike Threatened. London, March 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 27

The workers in the bituminous coal mines in the United States, who have refused to assent to a reduction of 5½ per cent. in their wages, and threaten to go on strike, are…

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Corowa Deep Lead Mine

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 3

The mine manager, Mr, Thos, Uren, reports under date March 8 as follows:-- The north drive from No. 8 rise struck wash at 23 feat, and is now in 50 feet,…

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Mining Under Difficulties

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 29

Says the Tumut Advocate:—On Friday morning two waggon loads of copper ore from Messrs Reeckmann and Frostroom's mine at Lobb's Hole was delivered at the…

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Contraband of War. Coal for the Belligerents. London, March 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 26

The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has stated in a letter in reply to one received from the corporation of Hall, that coal consigned to either Japan…

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'Twixt Love and Gold. (All Rights Reserved.) PART 3. a Highly Sensational Romance of Love and Adventure. Chapter Xv. Continued

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 6

"Here they are," Mr. Bexfield said a moment later, as he stopped opposite the picture gallery and opened the door. "Now I will leave you…

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Strong Agreement in Favour of Chinese. Miners, Salvation Army, and Bishops Support the Request. Lord Milner Favourable

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 March 1904 · page 2

The members of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commoree have passed a resolution by sixty-one votes to eleven urging the immediate ratification of…

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Mining

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 3

Mining operations, after a lapse of eight years, have again been commenced on the Kimbel line of reef at Black Range by Schulzo and party…

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The Riverina Gold Mining Company, No Liability. Annual Meeting of Shareholders

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

The annual general meeting of shareholders of the Riverina Godl Mining Company, No No Liability, was held yesterday, at Mr. Chas. Hidgcock's Office Hay…

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Mining Notes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

Some weeks ago, a syndicate comprising some twenty five residents was formed for the purpose of putting down a series of boxes on a lead running at the back of…

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Cablegrams. War. Education of Port Arthur The Battle of the Torpedoes. Russia Outclassed. Continuous Japanese Success. Fight of the Torpedoes. Mining the Approaches to Port Arthur. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

Vice-Admiral Togo has forwarded an official report to the authorities at Tokio concerning the torpedo [?] engagement outside Port Arthur on…

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Robbie Burns Quartz Gold Mining Company Chiltern

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 3

In another column will be found the prospectus of the above company which is now in course o flotation. Mr. Boucher, one of the promoters, a…

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Cablegrams. War. Japan and Russia Enormous Russian Armies A Missing Russian Squadron. Liaotung Peninsula Mined The Mining of Liaotung. Instructions for Neutral Vessels. Russia Will Provide Pilots. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 2

The correspondent of the London, "Express" at Berlin says that a Russian note has announced that Admiral Makaroff has completed the…

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