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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1893

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 11

IT was anticipated, before the conference between the Associated Proprietors and the miners, that the former would give notice of their…

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Enrichment of Coal Gas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 12

AN addition to an ordinary coal-gas plant has recently been erected by Mr. Henry J. Rogers, of the Watford Engineering Works, Watford,…

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Japanese Coal and California

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 11

THE Japanese coal-mines (writes the London correspondent to the Melbourne Argus) bid fair to monopolise the valuable Californian trade which…

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The San Francisco Coal Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 7

Some statistics just published of the import of coal into San Francisco are of interest to shipowners as well as coalowners (says Fair-play of June 26). In 1888 the total was…

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Retrenchment in the Mines Department. Offices Abolished. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 5

IN the Government Gazette to-day appear notifications that the offices of Assistant Under-Secretary for Mines, First Clerk, Botanist, and Draftsman, and Crop Reporter…

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Mining in the Copeland District. History and State of the Industry. Prospects of the Country. Cobark

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1893 · page 2

ABOUT 15 years ago a rush took place at a spot on the Cobark River, situated about 16 miles to the west of Copeland. A good many miners went out and commenced working…

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Coal-mining in Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 4

OF late years a good deal has been heard of coal-mining in Japan, and the subject has not a little interest for all concerned in the local coal-trade, as Japan coal is now being used…

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The Western Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 8

WORK at all the Lithgow pits proceeded in a fairly steady fashion during last week. At the Vale pit, where two free labourers still remain,…

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The Southern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 8

THE North Illawarra mine, which a little while ago went to work with a dash, was idle the whole of last week. Some internal improvement has been…

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Colliery Surfacemen's Union. Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 5

THE usual quarterly delegate meeting of the Colliery Surfacemen's Mutual Protective Association, H.R.D., was held at Tattersall's Hotel on Saturday last. The president (Mr…

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The Northern Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 5

EVERYTHING at Teralba remains quiet, but the police authorities have decided not to withdraw Sub-inspector Saunders and his seven constables until the excitement among…

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Coal Boring in Tasmania

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 July 1893 · page 8

THE Southport Coal Prospecting Association has (says the Hobart Mercury) secured the use of the Government diamond drill to bore for coal on…

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Collieries Closed. 3000 Men Locked Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—A labour difficulty has occurred in the Forest of Dean, where the masters desire to make a reduction in colliers' wages…

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Northern Company's Coal for Noumea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 5

THE schooner Frank Guy is to sail to-day for Noumea with a cargo of the Co-operative Pacific Company's Coal. This is the first shipment of the coal to leave the colony since…

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Mining at Broken Hill. Prospects of the Junction. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1893 · page 5

MESSRS. Stuckey and Johns, two directors of the Junction, who have just visited the mine, made a thorough inspection of the underground working. They expressed themselves…

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The Pacific Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 5

THE Pacific Co-operative Steam Coal Company had 77 miners and 30 other hands, including boys, at work in the mine at Teralba yesterday. The members of the Northern…

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The Waratah Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 5

THE Waratah Colliery will resume work on Monday, the task of restoring the main shaft having been completed. Since the collapse of the woodwork in April last the miners,…

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Miners' Meetings. Burwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 8

A SPECIAL meeting of the Burwood miners was held in Neem's Hall on Monday evening. Mr. Matthew Minto presided. The meeting was called to consider what…

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Copeland Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 8

A PART of miners who have taken the Hidden Treasure mine on tribute have arrived, and commenced operations yesterday by getting steam up to pump the…

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Queensland. Cooktown, Tuesday. Find of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 5

News has just reached here that a Chinamen has found a nugget of gold weighing 108oz near a place known as German Bar, on the Palmer River…

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