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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1900

1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 52

Maude Adams in Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 9

The life-size figure of the actress has just been cast in New York at a cost of £37,400. It will be shown at the Paris Exposition as typifying an American…

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Mining Plant for Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 11

Leeds machines, like Hawana cigars, are known the wide world over (remarks a Yorkshire paper). Of recent years Leeds engineers have done a big…

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British Coal and Iron Trades (Leeds Mercury, May 26th.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 6

H[?]AGE, Friday.—The strain on the iron markets is not quite so marked this week as has been the case for the past two months or so. The heavy…

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Newcastle's Coal Resources a Great Field for Development. Prospects of Tapping the Tomago Seam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 6

Now that the output of the Newcastle district is growing to great proportions, it will be interesting to review briefly what the future of our…

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The Premier in Newcastle. Sir William Lyne on the Coal Trade. the Commonwealth Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 5

The Hon. the Premier, Sir William Lyne, K.C.M.G., arrived in Newcastle last night, en route to Dungog, where he intends paying an official visit for the purpose of…

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Is It a Goldfield?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

Since Worturpa—that desolate amphi-theatre hidden away amid the almost impenetrable rock jumble of the Flinders Range—proved such a fraud, after causing…

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Proposed Colliery Development. Old Mines to Be Coal Produci[?] New Pits Being Opened Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 5

Newcastle has entered upon a periods of apparent prosperity Everything points to the conclusion that the demand for coal will increase rather than diminish,…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 7

The monthly meeting of the above miners was held in the Wallsend School of Arts on Friday evening. Mr. C. Richardson in the chair…

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Work at the Collieries the Output Insufficient for Requirements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 5

In these days of great demand for coal the collieries are being worked at high pressure, and constance employment is the general rule for all miners in the district…

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Opening of a Public School at Boolaroo. the Minister for Mines on the Educational System. an Entirely Free System Advocated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 July 1900 · page 3

The Hon. J. L. Fegan, the Minister for Mines and Agriculture, and Mrs. Fegan visited the rapidly-growing town ship of Boolaroo on Saturday, at the invitation of…

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London Coal Contracts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 7

The "Financial Times" states:— "The Gas Light and Coke Company has, according to well authenticated reports from the north, contracted for…

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Canadian Coal Fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 3

A report issued from the Home Office on "Foreign and Colonial Mines and Quarries" states that in Canada the coalfields which have been most…

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British Mines and Quarries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 6

Part I. of the report on mines and quarries for 1899 states that the total number of persons employed in and about all the mines of the United…

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The American Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 5

Mr. J. W. Harrison's coal circular, under date San Francisco, June 12, says:—Since the departure of the steamer Alameda the following vessels…

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Victorian and New Zealand Coal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 7

The managers report:— Coal Creek Proprietary, 7th.—Still, opening out bock of shaft. Nos. 1 and 2— Seams workings are in fairly good order…

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Johannesburg Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—Lord Roberts refuses permission for miners to reenter Johannesburg before September at the earliest…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 7

A special meeting of the above miners was held on Monday evening in Simpson's Hall. The attendance was fairly good. Mr. Jos. Whittle in the chair…

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Duckenfield Coal Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 7

Messrs. James and Alexander Brown, of 24 Pitt-street, Sydney, have contracted with the Government to supply Buckenfield coal under the following contitions :—…

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Australian Coal for England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 4

The high price of coal in Britain is evidently inducing large users of that fuel there to look elsewhere for other sources of supply. It Is useless to seek…

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A Coming Coal Competitor of Britain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1900 · page 6

"Engineering," in an interesting article, demonstrates that the State of Alabama will, within the course of the next two years, be in an economic…

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