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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Adelong Mining Development

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 32

An interesting development is in evidence at No. 1 barge of the Gold Estates. Adelong, What is locally known as Shepherd's Cut is being shown by the…

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Alberta Miners' Threatened Strike. Ottawa

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 2

The Minister for Labor is intervening in the difficulty, and is hopeful of preventing the threatened strike of miners in Alberta, British Columbia…

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Newcastle Collieries. Newcastle

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

The suggestion of Mr. J. Holman, Acting Premier, to the colliery proprietors, is that the trouble at the Pelaw Main Colliery should be submitted to voluntary…

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Ships Coal on Fire

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

The tramp steamer Wymerie, from Calcutta, bound for Carral via Newcastle put into Sydney Harbor last night with flames blazing from her bunkers. The…

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Broken Hill Miners Furious at Traitorous Action of M'gowen Government." Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 April 1911 · page 3

At a meeting of the Broken Hill branch of the Amalgamated Miners" Association last night, a motion was passed condemning the traitorous action of the M'Gowen…

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Adelong Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 33

Whitely and party, of Adelong, have five tons of likely-looing stone bagged, which is to be treated at the local battery. This stone is from a good-sized reef. The reef…

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Wyalong Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 33

At the Junction and amalgamated leases. Wyalong, about 80 men are employed, and indications point to a prosperous time this year. The best stone is sent to Cockle…

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£40,000 to Investigate Miners' Diseases

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 April 1911 · page 2

It ia announced that the Witwatkersand Native Labor Association is building a laboratory at Johannesburg at a cost of £40,000 to investigate miners' diseases. The…

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Cablegrams. a Daring Robbery Hungarian State Mine Looted Watchmen Imprisoned and Safes Blown Up. by a Desperate Gang. Vienna

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 2

A daring venture has been successfully negotiated by a gang of robbers. Yesterday the desperadoes visited the Hungarian State gold mine at Veresiviz…

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Dreadful Mine Explosions Human Ghouls at Pit Mouth. Entombed Men's Escape Cut Off by Fire. Scranton (Penn.), Saturday. SCRANTON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 April 1911 · page 2

An appalling mining disaster occurred at Throop, a town near here, on Friday An explosion took place in a mine, and between fifty and seventy-five men were Seventy-four men lost their lives in the mine at Throop. When the bodies of the victims were brought to the surface, a number of…

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Sale of Mining Plants

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 3

On Wednesday Messrs Bell, Lambert and Nixon, acting under infractions from the State treasurer, submitted to auction the No. 1 and No. 2 plants of the…

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Cambrian Coal Trouble Miners' Council Annoyed at Strikers. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 2

The executive council of the South Wales Miners' Federation met un-der the presidency of Mr. William Brace, Labor member of the House of Commons…

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A Canadian Coal Dispute. Ottawa

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 3

The Western Canada coal mine owners who are affected by the strike at Cro[?] Nest have informed the Department [?] Labor that they welcome the proposal of…

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Gold Mine Robbery. Safes Blown Open Buckets of Rich Ore Taken. Vienna, April 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 41

When the employes at the Hungarian State gold mine at Veresviz went to work yesterday morning they found that the watchman has been imprisoned in a room…

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Mining in the State

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 33

Mining matters at Tumbarumba are very quiet at present. Most of the small ground sluicing claims are worked out. The Union Jack, on Tumbarumba Creek…

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Miners Entombed. Blackdamp Explosion. Negro Convicts Perish. San Francisco, April 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 42

An explosion occurred in the Banner coal mine at Littleton, Alabama. More than 200 miners, most of whom were negro convicts, were entombed…

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Coal Miners Object to Baths Render Them Liable to Colds. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

At meetings of miners held at Lothian and Durham resolutions were carried protesting against the clause in the new Mines Bill which makes washing at the…

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Miners' Phthisis. Capetown

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

A bill compensation miners suffering from miners' phthisis has passed its second reading in the Union House of Assembly at Capetown…

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Action Against the Coal Vend

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 4

A great array of legal talent gathered at the High Court on Thursday, when the prosecution of what is popularly known as the coal vend…

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Sensational Gundagai Gold Yields. Gundagai

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

More very rich n[?]us have been unearthed at the Long Tunnel mine at Gundagai. On Saturday a prospect of stone weighing 20 lb. was dollied, and returned…

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