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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

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Gold in Alaska

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

The latest placer-gold strike in Alaska is on the Kenat River…

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Mining Camp Riot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

A riot, occurred at Monarch, a mining camp in Colorado. Dynamite was used, and a fire broke out, one man being killed and…

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Colliery Wages Board. Engine-drivers' Application. Position of Other Unions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 6

The Newcastle Collieries (Newcastle and Maitland Workers not Miners) Wages Board sat again yesterday, at the council chambers, Watt-street. Mr. W…

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South Wales Miners. Against a Strike. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

The ballot of the South Wales miners on the alternative proposals of a general strike or making a levy to support the Cambrian Combine…

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Collieries Wages Board. Engine-drivers' Application

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 5

The Newcastle Collieries (Newcastle and Maitland Workers not Miners) Wages Board sat again yesterday, at the council chambers, Watt-street. Mr. W…

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Co-operative Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 3

The quarterly meeting of the Co-operative Miners' Lodge was held on Thursday evening, Mr. J. Wilson presiding over a fairly good attendance…

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Month's Coal Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 4

The export of coal from Newcastle to places beyond the State during the month of September shows an increase of 100,750 tons as compared with the corresponding month of…

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Wages Boards for Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 4

In the Victorian Legislative Council the Minister of Public Works mover that the House concur in the Assembly's resolution for the appointment of a wages…

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Miners' Risks. Whitehaven Disaster. Recovering the Bodies. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 5

The work of recovering the bodies from the Wellington coalmine at Whitehaven, in Cumberland, the scene of the terrible disaster in May…

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Powlett Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 4

Thursday was pay day at hte Victorian State mine at Powlett, and nearly £7000 was paid out in wages and accounts. The average earnings on the hewing rate were…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 4

The majority of the pits in the Newcastle and Maitland districts worked either full time or fairly well for the fortnight ended on Saturday. The…

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Welsh Colliery Trouble. Men Giving Notice. Twenty Thousand Idle. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 5

Mr. D. A. Thomas, M.P., states that the Employers' Association pays the Cambrian Combine an indemnity during the strike exceeding…

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Mining Matters. Abermain Pillar Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 4

With regard to the difficulty at Abermain Colliery over the working of pillars and tops, and the proposal to deal with the matter by conciliation, Judge Scholes…

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Mining Disaster. Men Entombed. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 5

It is reported that one hundred miners have been killed at a mine at Palen, in Mexico. The latest intelligence regarding…

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Mining Matters. Powlett Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 4

Only four trains with coal were despatched from the Victorian State mine on Friday. As no more rain had fallen since Thursday morning the work of…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 7

A meeting of the Whitburn miners was held on the Greta Park on Sunday morning. Mr. J. Clark presiding. The chairman stated the meeting had…

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Stanford-merthyr Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 6

The Stanford-Merthyr miners held their quarterly meeting on Sunday. Mr. G. Foreman presiding. It was agreed to strike a levy of 1s per man in aid of the…

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A Land of Gold. Nuggets on the Surface

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 6

No country has had a more romantic history in the matter of goldmining than Victoria. And in Victoria no place has appealed to the imagination of…

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Mining Matters. Victorian Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 4

At a special general meeting of the Miners' Union at Powlett, Victoria, on Sunday, over 200 members were present. Word was received from Mr. Broonie, general…

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Mine Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 5

Owing to an explosion in a mine at Monterey, New Mexico, 72 Mexican and Japanese miners were killed…

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