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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1888

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Mining Notes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 7

AT the Town and Country mine, Silverton, the contractors have sunk 18ft during the past fortnight, and timbered 22ft in the new vertical shaft…

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The London Coal Dues

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 8

IT is reported in City circles that when the coal dues lapse in July nest, the Corporation will not altogether lose their hold upon the consumer. There…

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The North of England Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 December 1888 · page 5

AT Newcastle-on-Tyne, representatives of the coal-owners and miners have met in conference to consider the demand of the men for an advance of…

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Miraculous Escape of Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 December 1888 · page 8

TWENTY miners who were supposed to have been drowned by the flooding of the Salgo-Tarjan Mine in Hungary have after all miraculously escaped,…

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