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Mining & the mines, 1911

150 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 8

Miners' Union Fined

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.— The Collie Miners Union has been fined £180 for throwing the Collie Burn Mine (West Australia) idle for nine days, being at the rate of £20 per day,…

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Tin Mining

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 2

The following new Company is announced: Strathbogie Tin-min-No liability registered September 21, with a capital of £5000 in [?]…

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Mining Accident

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 2

A serious accident occurred last week at the Deep Lead mine, Emmaville. Two men, H. Gross and G. Molloy, on night shift,…

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Sensational Gold Find

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 3 October 1911 · page 4

A sensational gold find has been made at Pamb[?]la. After sicking 60 ft. in an old shaft a lode was struck 12 to 18ins wide which assayed…

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Victoria's Coal Mine

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 4

The engine-drivers at the Victorian State Coal Mine threaten to cease work unless they are given an increase…

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Big Gold Loss

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1911 · page 7

The commission appointed to inquire into the disappearance of £60,000 worth of gold from the East Rand Proprietary mine during…

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Emmaville Miners' Brass Band

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 5 October 1911 · page 3

It will be remembered that a few weeks ago Emmaville Miners' Bran Band won the A. grade competition at Toowoomba (Q.). Mr. W. A…

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Rich Gold Find

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 10 October 1911 · page 2

Intense excitement continues at the wonderful richness of the Brass Knocker Mine at Pambula. The surrounding country is pegged…

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Mining Warden's Court. Tuesday, Oct. 10.—(Before Mr. J. Perry, Mining Warden.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1911 · page 2

WALTER BRADBURY, for authority to enter 25a. of por. 139, p. Gara, c. Sandon, owned by Robert Allingham. No appearance of the parties…

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Safety for Miners

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 October 1911 · page 10

A new fire-damp detector is being exhibited at Glasgow. Exports of the Mining Association declare that the invention is epoch-making in…

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Copeton Mines

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 2

Applications are now being made for shares in the Mount Ross Diamond and Tin Mining Company (no liability). The capital is…

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A Colliery Trouble Settled

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 5

It is believed that the labor difficulty at the Balmain collery has been mettled, and the man will resume work on Monday…

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Coal Mine Superstitions

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 8

Superstitions have good breedingground in the thick darkness, silence, and solitude of the under-world., and in the race-complexiiy of the workers…

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Mining

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 23 October 1911 · page 5

Daggers Bros. [?]ed about 25 cwt. of stone for a return of 7½ cwt. of tin. G. Lawson, sen., working lower…

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Gas Explosion in a Sulphur Mine

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 October 1911 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Night.—44 persons have perished in a sulphur mine at Irabonella, Sicily, through a gas explosion…

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Wales Miners

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 4

The South Wales Miners' Federation demand a minimum wage…

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Drowned in Mine

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 7

At Hibernia, New Jersey, a blast destroyed the partition between two shafts in the iron mines of the Wharlton Steel Company. Water…

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Mining Disaster

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1911 · page 4

Nine persons were killed and ten injured as a result of the explosion of a keg of gun-powder in a coal mine at Harrisburg, Pennsy[?]vania…

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A Mining Case

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 October 1911 · page 4

A man named Keith Maitland Gibson was charged at the Police Court to-day with having falsely pretened to James Canning that he had the…

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Typiste to Director of Mine. a Woman's Career. Success in America

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 6

Within one of the handsomest apartments of great, many-pillared mansion in the city of Washington there may be seen sitting at five…

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