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Mining & the mines, 1908

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In the Roaring Sixties. the Great Rush at Canoona. Being a Reminiscent Yarn of Fifty Years Ago About Queensland's First Gold-Field

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 7
Also in Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press

How much gold was won at Canoona, no one can say—more, probably, than the authorities ever knew, for records were not very carefully…

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A Terrible Colliery Disaster. Four Hundred Men Entombed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 2

News has been received from Herlin of a terrible colliery disaster in Westphalla which it is [?] has resulted in great loss of life…

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A Death Roll of [?] Miners. Only Eighty Workers Saved. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 2

The spread of the [?] which were raging in the Radhaul mine near the town of Hamam in Westphalia, have been [?]…

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Colliery Disaster in Westphalia. the Roll of the Dead. 300 Lives Lost. Messages of Sympathy From France. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 November 1908 · page 3

The latest reports from the seem of the coillory disaster at the Radbed mine at Hammo in Westphalin, where an explosion of Bro-damp occurred, show that…

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Westphalian Colliery Disaster Pitiful Scenes at the Mouth of the Pit. Frantic Women Try to Jump Down the Shaft. the Kaiser's Son Mobbed London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 3

A gloom has been cast over Germany by the terrible disaster at the Raubod colliery, at Hamme, in westplalia. An explosion of firedamp was followed by a fire in the…

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Mining for Gold in South Africa

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 29

A correspondent has forwarded to us the following information with regard to gold mining on a large scale in South Africa. It will be of interest to many of…

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Carrying Gold at Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 44

The specie locker of an ocean, steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern immediately over the screw. It has the shape of a half oval,…

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Colliery Explosion. Disaster in Westphalia. 320 DEATHS. London, November 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 43

A colliery explosion, the results of which are as yet unknown, has occurred in Prussia. The accident took place in the Radbod mine, at Hamme, Westphalia, the…

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Miners Eight Hours Bill Passed the Grand Committee. Government Will Facilitate the Remaining Stages. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 2

The Miners' Eight Hours Bill, which has been introduced into the House of Commens, has passed the Grand Committee, and it is anticipated that the passage of…

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South Wales Miners Federation Captured by the Socialists, the Presidents Warning. “Politics Calculated to Ruin the Federation.” LONDON.Thursdy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 November 1908 · page 2

The result of the preceedings at the conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation which is n session at Cardiff, shows that the Socialists will henceforth…

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CHILTERN. Saturday. Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 November 1908 · page 4

Chiltern Valley No. 2.—This mine has not been in usual full swing during the past week, but the wash treated has bene of fair average quality…

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Gold in Post Holes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 2

Old miners have always declared that the ground on which the principal buildings in Maryborough (Vic.) are built is highly aurlferous, and gold has often been…

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Killed in a Coal Mine. Miners' Neck Broken. by a Falling Mass. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 November 1908 · page 5

Another mining fatality is reported from Newcastle. A minor named Thomas Bryant was the victim. Bryant was engaged in holing through…

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The Brand of Cain. (Copyright.) a Vivid Romance of the English Coal Mines. Part Ii

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 November 1908 · page 3

"Then tell" me this: Where and when were you and this Roland Beswick married?" "In the East Ealing district of…

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Chiltern Valley Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 44

Mr. G. Mead, secretary of the miners association, states that there is dissatisfaction at the small earnings of a number of alluvial miners the Chiltern Valley mine. It was…

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Terrible Colliery Disaster. Explosion in an Arkansas Mine 275 Miners Imprisoned.feared That All Have Been Suffocated, London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 November 1908 · page 2

News of a terrible colliery disaster is reported from the United States, and fearful less of life it is bolioved has reauiled An explesion occurred at the reauiled…

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CHILTERN. Saturday. Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 30 November 1908 · page 4

Chiltern Valley No. 2.—Although there are fewer parties working in this mine the output is satisfactory. Hitherto almost a clean sweep of all the…

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Cablegrams. Arkansas Mining Disaster. a Terrible Explosion. Rescue Party Driven Back by Heat. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 1 December 1908 · page 3

Further particulars have been received of the tragic mining disaster at the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Coft mine at Martanu,in Arkansan…

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Arkansas Colliery Disaster. How It Happened. 188 Lives Lost. London

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

It is now possible to obtain a reliable estimate of the total loss of life in the disaster at the Pitsburg-Buffalo Co's colliery at Mariann. Arkamans…

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