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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

264 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 14

Far Better Than Coal

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 March 1918 · page 4

An American mining engineer has come to England with an invention for using nitrogen as an energy-producer in placeof coal, at a fraction of the…

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Mine Fields in Baltic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 April 1918 · page 3

A wireless German official message states that Berlin has asked the Russian Government for particulars of all the mine barrages in the Baltic, with a view to the…

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Mine Manager Charged

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 10 April 1918 · page 1

At the police court at Broken Hill last week, before Mr. W. A. Flynu, P.M., the case against Thos. H. Palmer, general manager of the Junction…

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Helpless Russia. What the Brest-litovsk Agreement Cost Her. Enormous German Gains of Material. Seventy-three Per Cent. of Russia's Iron and 89 Per Cent. of Her Coal

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 2

Reuters' Petrograd correspondent Reports that the Commissariat of Commerce summarises the Russian losses, as the result of the…

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Reminiscences of a Pioneer. Hon. Jas. Gormly, M.L.C., in Bendigo. Early Life on the Goldfields

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 46

Hale and hearty at the ripe old age of 82, the Hon. Jas. Gormly member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for Wagga, who is at present on a short visit…

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Brokfn Hill Miners Another Strike Not Wanted. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 16 April 1918 · page 3

A special meeting of the A M A. was held at Broken Hill yesterday to discuss a proposal for ceasing work in connection with the riot cases, and to stop work on…

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The Man Power Rill and Irish Conscription. the Passage of the Bill Said to Be Certain. Nationalists and Sinn Feiners Both Oppose It. Welsh Miners Approve of the Comb Out. Irish Unionists Suggest a Way Out. London

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 16 April 1918 · page 4

In the House of Commons, a guillotine resolution, regarding the Man Power Bill, has been adopted. The Bill will leave the House of Commons…

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Mine-sweeping

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 22

The Admiralty states that the British mine-sweeping fleet is now nearly forty, times as large as it was in 1914. The work has developed from a…

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More Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 April 1918 · page 3

The public have not heard much about the Corowa Perseverance Gold Mining Syndicate of late, but all the same satisfactory work has been going…

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A New and Deadly Mine. More Mine-Sweeping Rlsks

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 April 1918 · page 4

The mine as an instrument of destruction has been used by the Germans in a manner consistent with her disregard of laws and international…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 2

In connection with the coal mine at C[?]rabin, we understand that Mr. Young, the supervising operator of the works, has received the necessary…

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State Coal Board. Thanked for Services

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 2
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The Minister for the Navy has written as follows to. Mr. Bull, State Minister for Works and Railways, who organised the recent…

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State Coal Board Thanked for Services

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 44

The Minister for the Navy has written as follows to Mr. Ball, State Minister for Works and Railways, who organised the recent State Coal Board:—"At the…

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Coal Strike in Russia Railway Traffic Stopped

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 May 1918 · page 3

A telegram from Cracow, in Austrian Galida, states that the strife at the Dombrowa coalfields in Russia is the most serious of any outbreak during the…

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Melting Sovereigns to Make Jewellery. Illicit Industry Depletes Gold Reserve

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 6 May 1918 · page 4

With a contemptuous disregard for the Defence of the Realm Regulations, the gold hunters of Whitechapel continue to deplete the country's gold reserve by…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 33
Also in The Corowa Free Press

In connection with the coal mine at Coorabin, we (Jerilderie "Herald") understand that Mr. Young, the supervising operator of the works, has received the…

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Timber for Barrier Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 4

Since slipping from the United States has become so limited, owing to the war, the importation of Oregon timber used by mines has almost ceased, and mining…

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American Prisoners Ill-treated Starved in the Mines

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 4

An escaped French war prisoner states that he saw at Hameln, in Hanover, an American war prisoner who had worked for three months in the Harz salt mines…

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