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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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The Coppabella Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 2
Also in The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express

We are in receipt of the following correspondent through Mr. Gordon R. M'Laurin, M.L.A., with reference to the report, in course of preparation, by…

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Mining Market. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 28 November 1905 · page 2

Chiltern Golden Bar. b 12/. s 14/, Chiltern Valley b 88/. Chiltern Valley Consols, b 5/6. Granya, s 4/. Great Northern Estrunded Consols, b…

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Mining at Coppabella. Government Geologists Report. a Disappointing Field. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 November 1905 · page 3

The report of the Assistant Government Geologist upon the silver-lead field at Coppabella, near Germanton, was published to-day…

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Victorian Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 28

Valuable testimony was given before the Royal Commission on Coal Mines, which is sitting in Melbourne, in favor of Victorian coal. The witness was Mr. John…

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Mining at Coppabella. Report of the Government Geologist

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 4

The Minister for Mines and Agricultural has received from the Assistant Government Geologist (Mr J. E. Carne) a report on the Coppabella…

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Imitation Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 2

Very often the painter is called upon so imitate gold ornaments when painting ornamental ironwork or shop fronts, iron palings, eto , partly, of course, to Become…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 3

A miner named Frank Stracke was killed while at work in the Broken Hill Central mine early this morning. A mass of rock suddenly came away in…

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N.s.w. Railways. Railway Coal Contracts. Serious Allegations

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 3

Mr. Holman, whon the estimates were called on in the N.S.W. Leglslative Assembly or Thursday morning, said he desired to call attention to the…

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General Cables. London, Monday. Explosion in a Colliery. Twenty-one Miners Killed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

An explosion attended with label consequences occurred at Diamondville, Wyouring. U.S.A. The night shift were blasting coal at a depth of 4000…

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Colliery Explosion. London

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 December 1905 · page 2

A terrible colliery disaster has taken place in Juring. Twenty-one miners were killed, besides 40 who are entom[?]ed at a depth…

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This Coal Lumpers' Award

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 7 December 1905 · page 3

The members of the Coal Lumpers' Union express much disappointment at the award of the Arbitration Court in declining to interfere by [?]ising the…

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Coal and Coal

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 3

The remarkable feature in the Lithgow coal contract was that whereas the Coal Association was willing to supply some 40,000 tons at a price…

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Coal Mine Explosion Great Loss of Life. London, December 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 27

A terribly fatal explosion has occurred in a coal mine at Diamondville. in the state of Wyoming. A number of men who were on the night shift were biasing coal…

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"White Coal."

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 December 1905 · page 3

The utilisation of water power in driving machines for the production of electrical energy is one of the great problems occupying the minds of engineers, the world over,…

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Wonderful Coal Cutting Machine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 December 1905 · page 2

A new coal-cutting machine if creating much interest among miners. It weighs 150 pounds, is worked by compressed sir, and is said to be wonderfully successful in…

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The Coal Contracts

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 4

Some of us in our young days were taught that in Australia the course of nature was reversed; that the ducks had four legs and no wings; that the…

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Alleged Gold Robbery

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 29

At the Carcoar police court a man named George Polmeon was charged with stealing 12oz. 12 1/2dwt. of gold, the property of some person or persons unknown, on or…

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After Dinner. a Mining Experience

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 December 1905 · page 2

You have heard of the confilcting avidence for and against an after-dinner nap Some say: "Take it; that is, if you get the chance." Others say:"Avoid…

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The Volcano of Popocateptl the World's Greatest Sulphur Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 6

The volcano of Popocateptl, in Mexico, is known as the Vesuvius of America, owing to the frequent eruptions that have marked its history…

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