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Mining & the mines, 1908

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Victoria's Gold Yield

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 33

The Victorian gold returns for the year 1907 were issued on Friday. They show that the quantity won throughout the State was 754,270oz. gross, or 695,576oz. fine, valued at…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 45

A fatal accident occurred at Gibraltar mine on Tuesday. Daniel Wiles, Martin Donnellan, and Arthur Tillett, tributers, were running old stulls, when the rearing…

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British Miners. Proposed Eight Hours Day. Protest by Employers. London January 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 42

In July, 1906, at the instance of Mr. Rusell Rea, M.P., the Home Secretary (Mr. Gladstone) appointed a commission to inquire into the probable economic effect of the introduction…

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Cablegrams. Rio Tinto Copper Mines. Alarming Subsidence. Property Worth [?] Idle. Thousands of People Workless. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 2

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The Kalgoorlie Mines. Agent-general's Remarks. Rason's Foolish Prattlings. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 2

A day or two ago Mr. Herman Landan, chairman of the Northern Blooks Ltd., suggested that the West Australian Government ought to test and explore the…

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The Coal Trouble

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 3

Four collieries, are idle to-day, viz., the Duckenfield, Burwood, Shortlands, and Durham—the first three being idle owing to wages troubles…

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Cablegrams. Back From the Tomb Burried for 18 Days Three Miners of Ely. Fed Through a Pipe. Great Excitement. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

The three miners, Bailey, Brown, and Macdonald, who have been entombed in a mine at Ely, Nevada, U.S.A., since December 4 last, through the drives being…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. More Coal Mining Disputes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 5

A telegraph from [?] that north of Brown [?}…

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Miners Eight Hours Bill Opposition at Dlashow: Will Ruin the Coal, Industry London, Tuesday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 2

At a meeting of the members of the Glasgow Clamber of Commerce last night it was decided unanimously by resolution to petition Parliament against the…

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General, Cable News London, Tuesday. Shocking Colliery Explosion

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 2

A sever explosion has taken place in the flem Colliery at charlerio, a Belgian town on the samale river, 35 miles southcast of Brussels. Ten miners were…

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Coal-mines Troubles. Continued Disorganisation

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 3

The Back Creek and Duckenfield Collieries at Minmi, are idle again. To-day the "wheelers" announced their determination not to resume work until given an…

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The Colliery Troubles

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 3

The Neath Colliery, near Cessnock, was laid idle yesterday owing to the manager refusing to unconditionally reinstate two miners who had been…

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Historic Copper Mine Worked Since Roman Days. Operations Suspended

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 31

Work has temporarily ceased in the famous Rio Tinto copper mine, in Andalusia, and thousands of men have been rendered idle. The cessation of work was necessitated by…

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The Mineral Industry of N.S.W. II. Coal

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 2

NEXT to silver coal contributes the largest share to the annual mineral production of the State. In 1906, out of a total production of nearly £8,000,000,…

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The Colliery Troubles

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 5

The, Back Greek and Duckenfield Colleries are still idio…

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Maitland Miners Score

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 3

It is stated that the decision of the Maitland colliery owners, which was announced yesterday, to continue to base the hewing safe upon the…

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Miners Association in Doubt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 2

Mr. J. [?], M.P., labour member for the Chesterfield Division of Derbyshire, and general secretary of the Derbyshire Miners Association,…

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The Coal Squabble. Keeping Everlastingly at It. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 2

The Special Mining Court was reopened at Nowoastlo that morning the minors who were enpleyad in the Rhondda Uotllory were still on atriks…

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The Trouble at Rhondda. Childish Coal Miners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 3

The president of the Miners' Federation has advised the men employed in the Rhondda colliery who struck work yesterday to give was on one point of their…

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Mining at Germanton

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 23

It is reported that the Germanton Silver-lead Mining Company has obtained a suspension of labor conditions for six months in respect of the Coppabella…

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