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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

1,195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 60

Gold in Chili. Rich Fields Found. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 5

Reuter's correspondent at Santiago de Ohill states that rich goldfeilds have been discovered at Curepto, in the Chillian province to Tulca…

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Mining Matters. District Position. Lymington and Shortland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 4

Wallsend Colliery will resume work this morning, and this will open the way to the settlement of the wheeler's grleveances throughout the district. The…

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Work for Miners. in New South Wales. a Singular Message. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 5

It is announced that the London office of the Associated Northern Collieries of New South Wales has resolved a cable message from its…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 5

Mr. James Ruttley, manager of Shortland Colliery, writes as follows:—"Under the heading of Adamstown news, in Saturday's issue of the 'Newcastle Morning…

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Mining Matters. Rush of Trade. Mines Said to Be Shorthanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 5

The cable message published yesterday to the effect that the Hunter River District Colliery Proprietors' Defence Association had communicated with the…

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Disappearance of Gold. Inquiry on the Rand. Capetown

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 5

The Government is about to appoint a commission to inquire as to the Working of the East Rand proprietary Company, owing to the disappearance…

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The Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 11

Sir,—The unsettled position of the mining industry of the northern district leads me to ask, do we as workmen ever stop to consider that there is an ever…

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Canada's Gold Goinage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 3

A beginning has been made with the issue of the Canadian gold coinage at the branch of the Royal Mint in Ottawa, and the first 10,000 five-dollar pieces struck…

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The Mining Situation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 4

Now that the leaders of the Miners' Federation have succeeded in inducing the wheelers who were on strike to resume work, and to allow their dispute…

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Maitland Coal Seams. Commission of Inquiry. the Township Sites

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 11

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the thick coal seams in the Maitland-Cessnock district and other matters affecting the miners…

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Mining Matters. Alleged Scarcity of Men. Executive Officers' Reply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 6

The statement published yesterday in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" to the effect that the collieries owned by members of the Colliery Proprietors' Defence…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 5

The members of Wallsend Lodge Will receive payment on the victimised scale, at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Payment will be made at Houston's…

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India's Coal Industry. Very Low Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 5

The Blue Book on the trade of India for 1910-1911, issued by the Government of that country, gives some interesting particulars concerning the Indian coal…

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Maitland Coal Seams. Commission of Inquiry. the Township Sites

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 5

The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the working of the thick coal Beams the Maitland-Cessnock district and other matters affecting that district…

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Mining Matters. the Southern Men. Report of Trouble Denied. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 5

When questioned to-night by a "Newcastle Morning Herald" representative in regard to the report in a morning newspaper, that trouble is likely to occur on…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board. the General Position

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 5

The Delegate Board of the Colliery Employees' Federation met yesterday at the Trades Hall. Mr. D. Watson, president of the federation, was in the chair, and…

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Queensland Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 5

The coalfields of Queensland are being gradually developed, nod during 1910 five now mines were opened, on old reopened, and four closed, the total number…

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Sea Pit Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 2

The quarterly meeting of the Sea Pit miners was hold in Blackburn's Hotel, on Thursday evening. Mr. J. Mitchell presided…

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Mining Matters. Wallsend Victimised Pay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1911 · page 5

Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer, and the officers of Wallsend Lodge—Messrs. J. Frew, R. Cameron, and Wills-had a busy time yesterday afternoon in paying out…

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Early Coal-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 October 1911 · page 5

Light is thrown upon the early history of coalmining in England by the manuscripts preserved by Lord Midleton at Wollaton Hall, Notts, which are the…

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