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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1907

327 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 17

The Coal-lumpers. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

THERE was great excitement at Blackwattle Bay, this afternoon, when between 150 and 200 coal-lampers on strike attacked some non-union men…

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Mining Notes. Webbs' Consols and Mount Galena

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 2

LYING to the westward of Emmaville, across the river about 10 miles from town, it the highly mineralised belt of country comprising the Mount Galena and Webbs'…

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Telegraphic. [Through Our Metropolitan Agents.] The Coal-lumpers. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1907 · page 5

A RESOLUTION was carried last night at a mass meeting of the unionist coal-lampers and others that steps be taken to bring about a general…

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Coal-lumper Arrested

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 June 1907 · page 4

A coal-lumper was arrested at mid night in the act of throwing stones through the foreman stevedore's win dow, in Lower Fort street The man…

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The Coal Lumpers' Strike. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 June 1907 · page 5

MATTERS generally in connection with the coal-lumpers strike continue quiet. Various rumours are current, one being that a serious action by the wharf labourers would…

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Mining Trouble

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 19 June 1907 · page 4

A strike of wheeler threw the Peiaw Main Colliery idle yesterday afternoon. Three hundred employees left their work. Preminent miners…

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New Mining Companies

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 4

THE following companies have been registered:—El[?]ore Valley Prospecting Syndicate, No [?]bilty, capital £3000 in [?] chares, Place of o[?] : Elsmore, near Inve[?]ll, Office Inv[?]…

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Ascot Gold Cap. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 5

THE Ascot gold cap was cleverly stolen from a constable, and a representative of the maker the day before the race…

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Co[?]ry Disputes. St[?]e of Miners

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

FURTHER co[?] troubles have arisen at Newcastle. [?]e miners at Brown's Duckenfield[?] Back Creek pits, to the number of [?]00, handed in notices on…

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Miners' Terrible Fall.—700 Feet Down a Staft

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 4

THERE men, William Limm, William Philips, and Arthur Burton, all mmarried, with large families, were killied in an accident last month at the Shirbrook Colliery,…

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Gold Rush. at Ballarat. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 2

GREAT excitement prevailed at Ballarat North yesterday morning, by the announcement that gold-bearing stone 19 inches wide was struct in an old cemetery…

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Far and Near. Copper Mine. the Largest in the World

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1907 · page 7

A [?]me from which Pic[?]ian galleys and tramp steamers have been [?]ded must possess a singular history, and that of the Rio…

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New Series of Stories. a Friend of Mine

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1907 · page 3

George Lucksday always made a point of walking home from the city when the evening, or rather the afternoon, was fine. So that if he left his…

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Tingha Consolidated Tin Mines

Guyra Argus · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 6

During the week cleaning has been going on at all the mines belonging 10 this company, and their sults are quite satisfactory, says Saturday's…

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The New Mining Act

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 4

The Mining Act, pasted last session, comes into force on July 15. Regulations under it were gazetted yesterday…

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The Mining Act. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

THE Mining Act, which was passed last session, will come into force on the 15th of July, and regulations under it have been gazetted…

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The Coal-l[?]mpers" Strike

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 4

As scste stare has been reached in the dispste between the coal lumpers and the Steradores' Association. A grave Industrial crisis will be averted…

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Mining in a Cemetery

The Uralla News · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 2

A goldraining lease hrvs been tat en out in Victoris, which embraces the site of the Ballarat North Cemetery, A crushing from a reef found by a…

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Coal Trouble

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 3

An important step has reached in connection with the coal lumpers' trouble. A conference, in which the other Unions will take part, and if it proves abortive the…

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The New Mining Act

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 4

ON July 15 there comes into operation an Act which it is confidently prophesied will, in many respects, revolutionise the great mining industries of this…

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