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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1886

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Burwood. Check Inspectors' Report. Burwood Colliery December 21, 1886

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1886 · page 7

Main intake on north side of pis.—Anemometer registered 14,363 cubic feet per minute. Thermometer stands 63deg. Intake on second left hand heading…

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The Mount Kembla Miners and Mr. Curnow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1886 · page 6

The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, in reply to a letter written to that journal by Mr. F. W…

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How Colliery Explosions Can Be Prevented. Important Experiments at Darcy Lever Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1886 · page 7

How to prevent the frightful colliery disasters so frequently occuring in different pasts of the country, especially in the Palatinate, is a question which…

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Colliery Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1886 · page 8

A FATAL colliery accident occurred at Albion Colliery, two miles from Pontypridd, on November 4. Forty feet of the brickwork fell, the fall…

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Miners!

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1886 · page 4

IF you want strong pi[?] boots, or real good boots and shoes for your wives and children very cheap, do not forget that the great sale is still on at Joshua Smith's, next…

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Newcastle Collieries. Royal Commissioner's Opinion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1886 · page 5

THE commission are of opinion that the thickness of pillars should be materially increased beyond that generally considered necessary in the district. The strength of…

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