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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

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British Income Tax. Position of South African Mining Companies. No Alteration in the Tax. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 2

Representations were recently made by the Cape Legislative Assembly and the Transvaal Legislative Council respecting the payment of British…

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New South Wales Sydney, Wednesday. Colliery Dispute

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 3

The New Lambton, Rhondda, Northumberland, Cardiff and Abermain coal mines are idle to-day owing to a dispute with the miners who are…

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The New Mining Laws

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 47

The Minister for Mines is anxious to give the State the benefits of the Mining Act recently passed as speedily as possible, but the task…

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Rand Gold. a Record Year. London, December 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 18

The amount distributed in[?]dividends by the gold-mining companies on the Rand for 1906 was £5,565,970. This amount constitutes a record…

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The Lost Mines of Mexico

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 6

The murder of two American prospectors in the Sierra Madre Mountains. State of Sonora, Mexico, by a band of Yaqui Indians has prevented…

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Threatened Strike in Wales. Miners Joining the Federation

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 2

Owing to notices having been issued of an intended strike in the North Wales collieries 5000 men have joined the Miners' Federation…

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Labour on the Rand. Speech by Mr. G. H. Farrar. President of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

Sir G. H. Farrar, M.L.C., formerly President of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, in his speech at Boksburg, stated that he advocated the…

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New South Wales Gold Yield

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

The gold yield of New South Wales for December is 15,[?]oz., fine, compared with 23,427oz. in December, 1905. The yield for the 12 months was 253,987oz., fine,…

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Discovery of Wyalong Gold Field

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 29

The discovery of the Wyalong (N.S.W.) Gold Field makes very interesting reading, and in view of the fact that the field attained its 13th year as a producer of the…

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Union Pressure. Trouble in Welsh Mines London, January 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 43

The coal miners in North Wales are again bringing pressure to bear on non-unionists in order to force them into the unions. The issue of notices that it was…

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Mining Millionare. Leaves Fortune of £1,500,000. London, January 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 42

The estate of the late Mr. Ludgwig Loeffler financier, who died in London, on November 20, has been valued for probate at £1,505,004. The probate duty to be…

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Gold Recovered

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 2

Divers have recovered gold valued at £1,500 from the wreck of the steamer Elingamita which line off the New Zealand cost…

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Food From Coal

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 3

Coal is henceforth good food Dr. Emil Fischer, the winner of the Nobel prize in 1902, professor of chemistry in the University of Berlin and…

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The Cock's Pioneer Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 5

Mr Hugh Falconer, manager of the Cock's Pioneer Mine at Eldorado, lodged 107 ounces of gold at the bank yesterday, as the result of a week's…

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General Cables. the Transvaal Gold Output. an Increase of Nearly Four Millions. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 2

The output of gold from the Transvaal last year was valued at £24,579,987 being an increase of nearly £4,000,000 over that of 1905…

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A Hundred Miners Entombed. an Alabama Horror

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 3

A serious mining disaster is reported from Alabama (U.S.A). Several landslips occurred at the Schloss mine, where convict labour is largely…

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Mining at Wyalong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 33

Operations have been resumed at most of the properties. From returns to hand, .the output of gold for the past year, approximately, is 22,000oz. This brings the…

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Miners Entombed. Efforts for Their Release. London, January 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 43

Extensive landslips have occurred in the Schloss mine, in the State of Alabama, United States. One hundred of the miners, who are chiefly convicts from the State…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 January 1907 · page 3

A fatal accident occurred at the Brnken Hill Proprietary Mine at Broken Hill last night. While a minor named William McKeenam was working below…

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A Drifting Mine

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 January 1907 · page 2

Owing to the use of names m modern naval warfare, there, is great danger to neutral shipping; as the mines are apt to break loose from their moorings and drift…

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