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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

264 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 14

Vessel Strikes a Mine Off N.Z. Coast. the Wimmera Sunk. Sixty-seven Persons Missing Sydney, Saturday Morning

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 4

The steamer Wimmera, bound from Auckland to Sydney, was sunk through striking a mine off the New Zealand coast on Wednesday morning…

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Native Miners Resume

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 July 1918 · page 2

Ml the natives who refused to work on Monday, have resumed. That the trouble has not fully subsided, however, is shown by two incidents…

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Ccorabin Coal Mine

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 2

Work is proceeding steadily at the Coorabin Coal Mine, but considerable delay has been caused through the boiler being held up…

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Strangling Gold Production Meeting of Gold Producers Representations to Government. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 2

A most important and representative meeting of Empire gold producers was held in London. Lord Harris, who presided, related the…

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A New Mining Industry

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 44

Amongst the many new industries which have sprung up in this country to replace imports shut out owing to the great world war is that of mining and…

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The Coal Output Necessity for Economy

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 2

The Press Bureau states that the withdrawal of, 75,000 miners from the British collieries involves 22½ million tons of reduced coal output. It is…

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Shortage of Coal Great Decrease in Output

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 2

In an announcement by the Press Bureau it is stated that the withdrawal of 75,000 miners from the British collieries involves a reduction of 22,500.000 tons in the…

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Fortunes in Rubbish. Gold Found in Road Metal

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 4

A road was being laid in Tasmania with stone from around the New Golden Mara property near Warratinna when it was discovered that…

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Children's Story. How We Held the Mine. (Concluded from last issue.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 13

Next morning hardly half-a-dozen of our miners showed up. There was trouble in the air, and, on entering the mine, we found the fifth level flooded and two of…

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No Hope of Further Survivors. a Field of Mines. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 6

Huddart Parker and Co. have received a cable from Auckland stating the officials did not hold out any hope of there being any additional…

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Sinking of Hospital Ship "Due to a British Mine."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 July 1918 · page 2

On receiving the first bare intelligence that the British hospital ship Llandevery Castle had been sunk by a submarine, Berlin semi-official statement was hastily…

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Dissatifaction Amongst Coal Miners Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 July 1918 · page 2

The expression, of much satisfaction is reported among the miners of Newcastle district owing to the derision of the delegate board of the Northern Colliery…

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Teamsters' Strike Closes Mine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 8 July 1918 · page 2

A number of teamsters who have been carting ore from the Carboona stiver lead mines in the Holbrook district have gone on strike because their demand for extra…

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Coorabln Coal Mine. Work Progressing

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 11 July 1918 · page 1

Up to the present the sinking of the shaft of the Coorabin coal mine, near Oaklands, has been done with a windlass and is now down about 60…

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Coorabin Coal Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 32

Work is proceeding steadily at the Coorabin coal mine, but considerable delay has been caused through the boiler being held up somewhere between Blayney…

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Distress Amongst the Coal Miners

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 2

The Acting Minister of the Navy has announced that the Commonwealth Government would purchase 100,000 tons of coal from the…

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Coal Miners May Declare for Shorter Hours

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 44

At a meeting of the delegate board of the Northern Colliery Employes' Federation, Newcastle, the question of distribution of work in the coal trade was discussed, For…

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Coal Trade Distribution

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 41

The unequal distribution of trade at the northern district collieries has been, for some time, causing uneasiness among the members of the Colliery Employees…

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British Coal Restriction

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 28

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade (Mr. "Wardle, Labour member for Stockpool) has announced that the new order for rationing of household…

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The Broken Hill Miners

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 July 1918 · page 32

In connection with, the trouble at the Proprietay mine, Broken Hill, the secretary of the Federated Engine-drivers and Fire-men's Association has sent the following…

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