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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

831 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 42

What Are the Gold-mines Worth ?

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 3

Those who imagine that the gold-bearing districts in the Transvaal are to yield a huge profit for an indefinite time will find nothing to support that fancy in an…

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Southern Collieries. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 4

The inquest into the deaths of Major M'Cabe and Mr. M'Murry, who died whilst leading rescue parties at Mount Kembla mine during the recent disaster,…

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Aid to Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Welsh mines have sent £1000 to the miners on strike in Pennsylvania…

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Work at the Collieries. Trade Still Easy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 5

Very few collieries worked the full complement of days for the fortnight, which ended on Saturday. The output, though not large, was, however, in a few…

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Mining Fatalities. Accident at Dudley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 September 1902 · page 5

John Longworth, a miner residing at New Lambton, while following his occupation at the Dudley Colliery on Saturday morning, was accidentally killed by a fail…

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Colliery Officials Entertained

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 September 1902 · page 6

At the invitation of Mr. A. Thomas, general manager of the East Greta Coal Company, the chief officials of the East Greta, Heddon-Greta, and Stanford-Merthyr…

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Coal Mines Act. Breaches at Dudley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1902 · page 5

At the Charlestown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M. James Henwood, the manager of the Dudley Colliery, proceeded against several…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1902 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the above miners was held on Monday evening in Simpson's Hall. The attendance was good, Mr. H. Powell occupied the chair…

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The New Mining Township

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1902 · page 6

The Hon. J. N. Brunker, M.P., has received the following letter from the Department of Mines and Agriculture relative to the proposed new township of…

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District News. Greta. Re-opening of the Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 September 1902 · page 3

The Greta Coal Mining Company decided about three weeks ago to reopen the mine on or about the 27th of this mouth, and in consequence of this…

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Legislative Assembly. Coal Miners Bill. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1902 · page 5

The DEPUTY SPEAKER, Mr. Cann, took the chair at halt-past four o'clock. The Clerk read a letter from the Speaker in which the writer stated that…

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Gold Discovery. Siberia Beats Klondyke

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—An explorer who has recently returned from Siberia, being interviewed in England, said he had travelled over 11,263 miles…

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Mine Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—An explosion has occurred in the Algoma Mine, at Norfolk, West Virginia. Seventeen bodies have been recovered…

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Stockton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 6

The quarterly meeting of the Stockton miners was held last night. Mr. J. Robson, president, was in the chair. The quarterly election of…

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Gold in the Transvaal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 3

"The Engineering Magazine" opens with an article on the Transvaal mines by Mr. John Hays Hammond, who, whatever him Jamesonian record may be, is one (says…

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West Wallsend Colliery. State of the Old Workings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 7

Mr. W. Bower, district check-inspector, and Mr. David Murdock, local check-inspector, report having made an examination of the West Wallsend Colliery on…

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Coal Mining in India

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 9

Coal mining in India, says "Cassler's Magazine," is physically very different from coal mining in Europe. The very simplicity of it has been a hindrance to…

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Colliery Employees. the Burwood Difficulty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

A special meeting of the miners' delegate board was held at the Trades Hall yesterday, the sitting extending from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mr. John Bower, the…

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Southern Collieries. Mount Kembla Resumes Work. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

Satisfactory progress has been made with the clearing operations at the Mount Kembla Colliery, A cavil took place to-day, when 170 men presented themselves…

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Colliery Alarm. Small Fire at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

At about two o'clock yesterday afternoon an accident occurred at the Stockton Colliery that caused considerable excitement. It appears that…

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