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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Children's Story. Prison Life in a Salt Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 13

"Jury, do you find the acused guilty or not guilty." The jury whisper together, but for a few moments only, the evidence is too…

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Welsh Miners Go Out. 200,000 Men Involved. London, September 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 42

The 12,000 miners employed by the Cambrian Coal-mining Combine n the Rhondda Valley of South Wales yesterday decided to carry out their threat of a…

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Placer Gold Discovery. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 3

A good discovery of placer (alluvial) gold is reported from the Kootenay District of British Columbia. The scene of the find is on the Goat River and a rush for the…

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Fall of Colliery Gage One Man Killed; Eleven Injured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 3

A case, containing a number of miners. fell a distance of 30 feet at the Ferndal Colliery, South Wales, yesterday. One of the unfortunate occupants was…

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Whitehaven Colliery Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 26 September 1910 · page 2

The Wellington Mine at Whitehaven, the scene of the terrible disaster of last May, has been reopened. The work of recovering the bodies of the 136 men who…

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Collieries Enginemen Give Notice

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 27 September 1910 · page 2

The enginemen employed in the Scottish collieries have given notice of their intention to terminate their engagement in a fortnight's time. The object of the men…

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Miners Mission Halls

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 3

The estate of the late Mr. Richard Glynn Vivian, of Eaton Square, London, and Shetty Hall, Swansea has been proved at £28 [?] The deceased gentleman under…

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Coal for Egypt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 3

The Egyptian State railway authorities have ordered 300,000 tons of Cardiff and Monmouthshire coal…

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Labor in Evolution South Wales Miners. Labor Member Fears "A Calamitous Crisis." London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 2

A ballot is to be taken to-day of all the coal miners in the Rhondda Valley field in South Wales, to determine wheeher a strike should be declared in conjunction…

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Labor in Evolution Welsh Coal-mineps' Ballot. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 September 1910 · page 3

Ballot peters in connection with the Rhondda valley coalmines' dispute have been distributed to 160,000 members of the South Wales Unions…

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Whitehaven Colliery Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 2

A party which entered the Wellington Colliery, at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, to search for the remains of the 136 miners who perished in the mine in May last, have…

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Placer Gold in Alaska

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 3

Placer (alluvial) gold has been struck in the Kenai River, in Alaska…

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Whitehaven Disaster. Mine Being Reopened. London, September 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 43

The Wellington coal mine in Whitehaven, in Cumberland, which has been closed down since the dreadful explosion disaster of May last, has been reopened…

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Labor in Evolution Welsh Miners Decide Against Striking. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 2

The complete returns in connection with the ballot taken among the coal miners in South Wales to decide whether the 12,000 miners employed by the Cambrian combine…

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Children's Story. Prison Life in a Salt Mine. (Concluded from last week.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 13

Shortly before 5 p.m. we return to daylight, to be followed by the convicts, who crowd up into the yard of the mine, the soldiers, who have hitherto been lounging…

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Wild Mining Camp Dynamite As an Argument. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 2

In a mining camp at Monarch in Colorado a great riot has occurred and desperate measures have been taken by the riot­ers…

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Effect of Weather on Coal

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 2

Engineering describes experiments with car loads of American coal under conditions comparable With actual, experience in the. storage of coal…

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Two Miners in Danger. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 6

Two miners, named respectively Paul Weila and James Best, were working at the 200 feet level an one of the mines here when a fall of earth took place, which…

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Colliery Explosion in Mexico

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 2

A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Palen; in Mexico. An explosion of gas occurred in the mine. The falls of earth blocked up the galleries and 150 native…

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South Wales Coal Dispute

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 2

Mr. D. A. Thomas, Liberal member for the [?] District, who has represented the Cambrian combine throughout the negotiations with the men, states that the…

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