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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

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Victorian Coal Mines. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 November 1905 · page 5

At to-day's sitting of the Coal Mines Commission, Frederick Mackay, managing director of the Coal Creek Proprietary Company, said that he had been…

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Elermore Vale Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 6

A special meeting of the Elermore Vale miners was held at Young's Hall last night to consider fresh terms offered by the colliery manager to the miners by…

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Victorian Coal Commission. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 4

At the sitting of the Coal Commission to-day, Mr. Kynaston L. Murray, chairman of directors of the Jumbunna Coal Company, said the company had worked a…

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Killingworth. the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 6

During the last few weeks work has been slack at Killingworth Colliery, and this week a start was not made until yesterday. Men have been engaged for…

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Elermore Vale Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 5

The Elermore Vale miners met at the Wallsend Park yesterday, when a list of the names of those selected by the manager for employment under the altered…

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The Miners' Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 14

The recent conference at Blackpool (Eng.) of 88 delegates of the National Federation of Miners of Great Britain represented 516,600 men. Mir. William…

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Phthisis Among Lead Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 16

At the Royal Institute of Public Health, London, recently, Professor Thomas Oliver, of the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle (Eng.) delivered the first of the annual…

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Cost of Mining Diamonds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 14

In Kimberley the mines are worked, or can be worked, at as low a proportion as half a carat per load, and some are said to average considerably under that. Some…

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Mine and Equipment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1905 · page 5

Hetton Colliery is one of the largest in the Newcastle district. At present it employs about 430 hands, and the output is between 180,000 and 200,000 tons of coal…

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Hetton Coal Co. Electric Installation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1905 · page 5

At the Hetton Colliery, Carrington, a very fine electric pumping and lighting plant has been installed, and on Saturday afternoon, at the invitation of the…

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Colliery Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1905 · page 6

Messrs, Edwin Williams, district check-inspector, and James F. Colquhoun, local inspector, report as follows concerning their examination of Minmi Old Tunnel on…

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Working Machinery in Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1905 · page 7

A case having an important bearing upon conditions of employment governing the work of the miners, especially in view of the introduction of coal-cutting…

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Burwood Miners' Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1905 · page 3

The Burwood Miners' Lodge held its monthly meeting last night in the Premier Hotel, Breadmeadow. Mr. A. Stewart presided, and Mr. John Bower, president…

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Victorian Coal Commission. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1905 · page 5

The Coal Commisison took evidence at Korumburra to-day. Samuel Wynne said he had worked in coal mines in England, New South Wales, and West Australia…

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Railway Coal Contracts. Additional Papers. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 November 1905 · page 6

Additional papers relating to the western lines coal contracts for the railway service Were laid on tire table of the Legislative Assembly to-day…

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Colliery Employees. Committee of Management

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 November 1905 · page 5

A meeting of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held yesterday afternoon at the Trades Hall. Mr. J. Bower, president of…

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Hetton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the members of the Hetton Lodge was held last night at the Albion Hotel, Wickham. Mr. G. Oldham presided, and there was a good attendance…

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Mining Matters. Special Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 December 1905 · page 4

The conference between the representatives of the colliery-owners in the northern district and the inspectors of the Mines Department, upon the…

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Victorian Alluvial Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 2

I noticed the other day a paragraph in an Adelaide paper, which prides itself on its mining information, that the alluvial mines of Victoria are dead. The…

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Victorian Coal Commission. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1905 · page 5

The sitting of the Victorian Coal Commission was resumed at Korumburra to-day. Mr. Alexander Mackay, manager of the Coal Creek mine, said no practical miner…

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