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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Germans Purchase Welsh Coal. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 September 1911 · page 2

It is rumored at Cardiff that German agents have purchased 50,000 tons of steam coal…

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Briston Coal Misters' Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 2

A strike of coal miners lias been declared at Bristol. Altogether 1200 men axe affected. They are demanding the same increases as hare been granted to…

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Quarrel About a Horse. Another Colliery Closed. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 3

The youthful wheelers employed at the El[?] Vale colliery struck work to-day, thus [?]ing idle all the miners and sur[?] hands employed at the pit…

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General Cable News Men Killed in Colliery Disaster. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 September 1911 · page 2

Au explosion occurred at the Carnarvon colliery in Glamorganshire on Saturday. One hundred miners were entombed, and two others were killed. All the…

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Wonderful Gundagai Gold

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 4

The Loss Tunnel mine, Gundagai, continues to yield very high returns. The rich shoot at the 250ft. level yielded, during the past week, 504oz. gold from about…

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The Glamor of Gold. Charge of Stealing a Sovereign

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 4

At the Albury Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. F. Roberts, P.M., Herbert Williams was charged with having stolen, one sovereign, the property of Eric Neil…

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Mining at Yackandandah

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 28

The manager reports:— The tunnel at the Homeward Bound Bon Accord mine, Yackandandah, is now in about 570 feet, and the face is now in…

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Men in Burning Mine. Rescued Through Air-shaft. London, september 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 46

A fire which occurred in a coal mine at Chester-le-Street, in Durham, caused great consternation when it became known that 81 men were below…

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Naturalist About Leaf—miners

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 4

While the glory of autumn colors gratifies our sense of the beautiful, another aspect of the leaves appeals to our interest and curiosity The great army of Leaf-miners which…

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Rich Gold Find in Chile

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 2

Reuters correspondent at Santiago de Chile reports that rich goldfields have been discovered at Curepo. in the Chilian Province of Talca. A large quantity of gold…

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Another Strike. Mount Lyell Trouble. the Mine Closed Down. Men's Fresh Demands

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 2

The trouble at the Mount Lyell mine over the dispute with the Australian Mine Employees' Association respecting the dismissal of a man named Norman White is…

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£60.000 in Gold Disappears

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 2

Recently £60,000 worth of gold disappeared at the East Rand Proprietary Mine during its treatment in a cyanide plant. A Royal commission has now been…

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Coal Laden Barque Reinsured. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 2

The barque Solway, which left castle (N.S.W.) for Junin Chile, on June 21, with a cargo of coal, has not since been heard of. Reinsurances have now been…

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Miners Are Wanted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 6

Mr. A. R. Cant (secretary of the N.S.W. Colliery Proprietors' Association), speaking on the subject of room for miners, said that when the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher)…

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Mining at Adelong

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 35

In connecton with the Lady Clare mine, Donkey-hill, at the collar of the shaft are 120 tons of excellent battery stone worth 2 3/4oz. per ton. A development came in…

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New South Waives Miners Desert the P.L.L. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 3

The Miners Federation at Newcastle, by a substantial majority, to-day decided to with draw from affiliation with the Political Labor League…

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Gold on the South Coast Quartz Reef at 60 Feet: Pambula

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 2

The Brass Knocker Syndicate, working near Pambula, on the South Coast, has opened out on a rich find in an old shaft. The sinking of the shaft was continued for…

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Abnormal Work in Coal Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 3

The joint conference between coal mine owners and miners has failed to find a national basis of settlement as to the wages to be paid for working under abnormal…

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Missing Gold at the Rand. Capetown

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 3

A few days ago a Government Commission was appointed to inquire into the circumstances connected with the loss during the treatment of material by the cyanide…

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The First Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 32

An Orange correspondent wires that close to the famous spot where Hargraves made his discovery of payable gold in Australia—that is, on Ophir Creek—rich…

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