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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1918

233 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 12

Far Better Than Coal

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 30 March 1918 · page 3

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

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Retiring Police Sergeant. a Stirring-career. Old Times on New England Goldfields

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 8 April 1918 · page 6

Sergeant J. Redman, of Yamba, has catered upon five months' leave of absence prior to retirement. He has been connected with the police force for 36…

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Miners Against Striking

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 11 April 1918 · page 4

The Waikato miners, in New Zealand, by ballot declared against a strike…

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Miners' Latest

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 9

A meeting of the Delegate Board of the Illawarra Miners' Union has been held to consider the matter of acquiring and working a coal mine in…

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Retiring Police Sergeant. a Stirring Career. Old Times on New England Goldfields

The Inverell Times · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 7

Sergeant J. Redman, of Yamba, has entered upon five months' leave of absence prior to retirement. He has been connected with the police force…

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Patriotic Welsh Miners

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1918 · page 4

A conference of South Wales miners, at Cardiff, gave a vote of 2273 to 763 in favor of allowing the Federation to supervise the calling up of men for…

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Sporting Notes. Late Sport. Desert Gold and Biplane

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 5

Great disappointment was caused at the Awapuni Gold Cup meeting, New Zealand, at the eleventh hour, of the scratching of Biplane. Desert Gold…

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Northern Miners

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 April 1918 · page 4

The State Industrial Act will not be recognised by the Northern miners until the Coal Mines Regulation Act is amended…

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Hillgrove Mining

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 April 1918 · page 10

Our correspondent reports:—The new Baker's Creek Company is pushing work along very satisfactorily. Excavations for the new battery are…

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Queensland Mine Closed

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 4

The Gympic Scottish Mine lias closed down. Over 300 men have been paid off…

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Desert Gold

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 6

Desert Gold has competed in 46 races, of which she has won 34. She has been second in eight. and third in four, and has never been unplaced. She…

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A New and Deadly Mine. More Mine-Sweeping Risks

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · 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 lawa and international…

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Tingha C.P.S. and Mining Warden

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 30 April 1918 · page 2

The Justice Department announces that the C.P.S. and Mining Warden's office at Tingha will, after May 1st, be open only on two days a week, viz.,…

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Sundown Mine

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Sundown Tin and Copper Mining Co., No Liability, was held at the offices of Messrs. Vigars and Sky…

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Floating Mines

The Inverell Times · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 4

It was reported recently by the look-out on a vessel which arrived in Sydney from an Eastern port that be sighted an object resembling a mine…

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Live Fish in a Mine

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 2

Live fish have been found in the bottom of a Transvaal goldmine, in a vertical shaft 3300ft. deep. They were barbel, from…

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Telegraphic. Sydney, Friday. Floating Mines. Discovered In Pacific

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 May 1918 · page 4

A floating mine was/sighted in the Pacific by a vessel which has arrived in Sydney. The mine was towed for live hours,…

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Emmaville Tin Mining

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 6 May 1918 · page 4

At the half-yearly meeting of the Y. Water (Emmaville) Tin Company, N.S.W., held in Melbourne, the chairman of directors (Mr. J. L. Wharton)…

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Gold Discovery

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 May 1918 · page 2

Charles Nicholson and his son opened up two reefs in the Cowra district carrying gold. One is said to be the richest found in the State for many…

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Coal in Queensland

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 May 1918 · page 2

An outcrop of antracite coal has been discovered near Cloncurry, on the Mount Cuthbert line, Queensland…

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