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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Children's Page. The Gold Tooth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 9

Measles and starvation were together last September in the wretched camp of Chief Peter White Duck, the tottering great-grandfather of a patriarchal Montagnais…

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INTERCOLONIAL. Gold Dredging in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 28

A New Zealand correspondent writes:—Dredging for gold on the West Coast of New Zealand has not como up to expectations; in fact, taking the majority of claims…

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Holman's Coppabolla Silver Lead Mining Company

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 October 1905 · page 39

A preliminary meeting of shareholders was held at the offices of Messrs. Thompson, Moore, and Sons, Equitable Buildings, Collins-street, Melbourne, on Monday, 23rd…

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Fatal Colliery Explosion Five Lives Lost. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 3

A dreadful explosion of fire damp occurred at the Stanford Merthyr Colliery mine, nine miles from West Maitland, on Sunday, five persons…

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Maitland Colliery Disaster a Sixth Victim Dies. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 31 October 1905 · page 3

Before daylight on Sunday the Stanford Morthyr, one of the finest collicries in Australia, which employes 400 men at a shift, was found to be on fire…

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Colliery Disaster

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 3

Stanford Merthyr, one of the finest collieries in Australia, has met with sudden destruction. On Saturday 400 men were at work. Now the…

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New South Wales. Sydney. Tuesday. the Colliery Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 November 1905 · page 3

The funerals of Adams and Fewins, two of the victims of the explosion in the Stanford Merthyr colliery at Maitland on Sunday morning, took place to-day, and…

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The Colliery Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 2 November 1905 · page 3

A relief fund has been opened for the benefit of the families of the victims of the expiosion at Stanford Merthyr coliery on Sunday morning. The…

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Our Oceans are Vast Gold Mines

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 3

In their sixty-five quintillions of cubic feet of water are rest[?] lousing about seventy-five billion tons of goal: though to give every person on earth £670,480. Were…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 4

The long list of colliery disasters in this State was further added to on Sunday morning last by a dreadful explosion of fire damp at the Stanford…

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Colliery Disaster. Six Lives Lost. Several Injured

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 27

Stanford Merthyr, one of the finest collieries in Australia, has met with sudden destruction. On Saturday 400 men were at work, and the place was a hive of…

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Mining Company Sued

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 November 1905 · page 29

In the Charlton County Court (Vic), Judge Chomley was occupied a whole day in hearing the case of Edward Winter against the Nine-mile Goldmining Co. The…

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The Colliery Disaster. Suspicion of Incendiarish

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 5

There is a good deal of suspicion among mining officials in West Maitland that the Stanford-Merthyr Collory was set on fire The East [?]…

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7,000,000,000,000 Tons of Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 4 November 1905 · page 3

People in the year 3901 will have to invent something to take the place of coal, for by that time, according to the scientists, the world's…

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The Mining Bill

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 25

We have received from the Department of Mines and Agriculture a synopsis of the Mining Bill now before Parliament. The features of primary importance to local…

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Collapse of a Mine Shaft

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 November 1905 · page 2

The shaft of the Drufonteln Drep Mine, near Johannesburg, has collapsed killing 67 natives and one while man…

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Shocking Mine Fatality

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 28

A shocking accident, which resulted in the death of a miner named Thomas Henry Rutter, a married man with three children, has occurred at the Long Tunnel…

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The Advance of the Mining Engineer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 4

John Sineaton in 17543 was the [?] man who over styled himself a civil engineers, and in the 150 years the business has over been growing…

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Mining at Coppabella

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 November 1905 · page 4

The latest information from the Mt. Gifferd Mine, Coppabella, is highly encouraging. The shaft has cut the other leg of the saddle reef, and proved it…

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