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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Scientific Notes. Intense Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

It is interesting to know that the lowest atmospheric temperature ever recorded by the thermometer was at a point almost directly over the…

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Mine on Fire. Ten Men Entombed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

News has just reached here of another mining disaster in the United States. A fire has broken out in a colliery, belonging to the Leyden Coal Company, situated 4…

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The Mallee Hen Gold Find. [By One Who Has Been There. Narandera

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

This discovery, which is causing [?] immense amount of excitement in [?] around Narandera, was made about [?] months ago by Chas. McLean, who [?]…

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Entombed Miners. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 December 1910 · page 2

Great efforts are being made to save the ten miners who are entombed in the burning Leyden Colliery, ten miles from Denver, Colorado. Rescue parties are…

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A Model Mine. Washington Sunday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 December 1910 · page 2

An interesting experiment is about to be undertaken by the United States Government. The Bureau of Mines is to operate a model mine at Pittsburg…

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General Cable News London, Sunday. an Unlucky Colliery

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 19 December 1910 · page 2

The Wellington colliery at Whitehaven, the scene of the terrible disaster of May last, would seem to be ill-fated, for another tragic accident has occurred there. A high…

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General Cable News London, Monday. South Wales Collieries

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 2

Seven thousand miners, who recently ceased work in sympathy with the strikers at the Powell-Duffrya colliery in South Wales, will resume work to-day…

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Mining News

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

Mining in the Albury district is steadily improving, there being several men now on payable stone. Rumble and party at Hawksview, are sending a crushing of five…

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Italy's Coal. Rome

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

The Italian Chamber of Deputies is this week discussing a proposal to subsidise an Italian shipping company to transport the seven million tons of coal which Italy…

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Welsh Coal Trouble

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 3

Police court proceeding have been taken in connection with the recent Welsh coal riots. Two of the men were ordered to be imprisoned for violence and…

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The Leydin Mine Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 22 December 1910 · page 2

Three miners bodies have been found at the Leydin mine. The search is proceeding as it is thought that two others may have escaped to the inner workings and may…

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Cablegrams. Dreadful Colliery Disaster 367 Miners Imprisoned. 40 Dead Bodies Recovered. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 2

Additional news has reached London respecting the accident at the Hulpon colliery at Bolton, Lancashire, which resulted in the imprisoning of 367 men…

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Diamond Mines. Capetown, December 18

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 6

The Union House of Assembly has passed the second reading of bill which proposes to levy a tax of 10 per cent. on the profits of the diamond mines in the Capetown and…

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Unlucky Colliery. Another Whitehaven Disaster. London, December 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 6

The Wellington coal pit, at Whitehaven, where a terrible disaster took place in May last, by which over 130 men were entombed in the mine and cut off by fire from all…

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Colliery Disaster. 290 Men Entombed. Feared Few Will Be Saved. London, December 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 25

The gravest fears are now felt in regard to the fate of the 290 men who are entombed in the Hulpon collier at Bolton, Lancashire, through an explosion…

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Welsh Coal Trouble

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

The representatives of the Powell-Duffryn miners have recommended the men out on strike to immediately resume work…

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Cablegrams. the Mine Tragedy Greatest in History 310 Miners Still Entombed. One Boy the Only Survivor Bodies Blown to Pieces. Women's All Night Vigil. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

No better news is to be bad from Bolton and it is noW apparent that one of the greatest tragedies in the history of coalmining has occurred…

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[?]Prier Miners, Wages

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 December 1910 · page 4

[?] meeting of members [?] Miners' Association [?] on Tuesday at the [?]…

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Bulton Colliery Disaster 263 Bodies Recovered. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 December 1910 · page 2

Good progress has been made with the work of recovering the bodies of the men who perished in the Pretoria pit at Bolton. To date 263 corpses have been brought…

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Natives for Rand Mines. Lisbon

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 December 1910 · page 2

Since, the withdrawal of the Chinese, the Rand mines hare drawn largely on Portuguese East Africa for their native labor supply. The Governor, of Mozambique…

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