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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Late Cables Big Colliery Disaster in France. Eleven Hundred Lives Lost. LONDON

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 5

A terrible disaster has taken place in the collieries in Conierfseres in France. Three galleries of the mine were converted into a mass of flame…

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Appalling Colliery Disaster 1219 Miners Perish

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

A FIRE led to a terrific explosion in a French colliery at Courrieres on Saturday last. The three main galleries became a vast furnace, and a roll-call made…

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French Mining Disaster. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

ALL Governments and heads of State have condoled with President Fallieres on the disaster at Courrieres. The latent estimate of the deaths is…

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French Mining Disaster. LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

ENGINEERS assert that there are men still alive in the galleries of the Courrieres Mine, but the constant falls of roofs have impeded the search parties…

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The French Mining Disaster. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

THE French Socialists are urging a full investigation of the causes of the awful mining disaster at Courrieres. After the funerals of the victims,…

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Big Colliery Disaster. LONDON

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 5

A TERRIBLE disaster has taken place in the collieries in Conierfseres in France. Three galleries of the mine were converted into a mass of flame reaching the pit's mouth. 1795…

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Bundarra Copper Mine

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 2

THIS mine presents a scene of greater-activity just now than it has done for many years past, nearly 60 men being employed directly and…

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Mining

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 2

The gold yield of New South Wales for February was valued at £129,437, as compared with £69,123 for the same month of last year…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 6

The "Port Macquarie News" states: "We learn that a company has formed in Sydney to take over the Mount Jasper copper mine on a 12 months…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 2

It is reported that about 40 acres have been pegged out in connection with a Scheelite find, a short distance from Manilla. The discovery of this…

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The Mining Disaster. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 6

A Dumber of westphalian miners using the special respiratory apparatus In use in Westphalia, have recovered one hundred dead from the Courrieres…

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Sad Mining Fatality. a Boy Falls Fom a Rope, and Is Killed

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1906 · page 1

QUITE a shock was given to the people of Tingha on Friday evening last when a report reached town that a lad named Edward Henry Smith, aged 15, had received fatal…

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Gold Mining at Dungog. the Craven Fields

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 6

The late [?] rains have enabled the Bowman mines to resume operations again, (writes the Cravea Creek correspondent of the Dungog…

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Miners' Strike

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 4

Borty thousand miners in France have struck work, refusing an ad vanes of ten per oent pn their present wages…

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Mining Matters

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 4

MINING affairs are in a flourishing condition, chiefly due to the high price for tin ore, but though all hands are doing better, there is no such tiling as a boom on, and the…

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Emmaville. Mining Delegates

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 4

AT a meeting of the committee of the Minors' Association, held on the 13th, the report of the delegates was received. After discussion, the meeting decided to agree to…

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Mining Notes

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 2

The Bundarra Copper mine, is booming. Nearly 60 men are employed. The output is valued at £80 per day. The gold escort from Bakers Creek…

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Local and General News. Copper Mine

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 2

IT was reported in town on Tuesday that splendid ore bad been struck in two new drives at the Copper Mine. The mine looks very promising just now, and may develop…

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Tingha Mining Industry “Telegraph” at Sea

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 1

THE big King-street organ has got as far as the Tingha field, and last week it [?] an alleged report on the dredging [?] The most reliable part of the item[?]…

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Emmaville Mining

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 3

MINING affairs are in a flourishing condition, chiefly due to the high price for tin ore, but though all hands are doing better, there is no such thing as a boom…

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