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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

1,195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 60

Victorian State Mines. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 5

Mr. G. H. Broome, general manager of the State coal mines, has informed the miners that if they insist on the abolition of the "dog watch," one-third of…

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State Gold Yield. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 5

The State gold yold for November was 11,705 ounces crude, equal to 9617 ounces fine, valued at £40,851, compared with 22,370 ounces crude, equal to 19,527 ounces…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 5

The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation will meet at West Maitland to-day. Important business will be transacted, and a number of matters…

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Hebburn Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 3

Preparation are being made to work what is known as the top seam in Hebburn Colliery from a tunnel to be driven in at the back of the horse paddock…

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Victorian Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 3

Further good reports have been made during the past tow lays regarding the future in that part of the Victorian State mine area known as South Dudley, near…

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Wages of Miners. Hull

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

The coalowners and miners' delegates will hold a conference on December 19th to consider the question of the minimum wage from a national standpoint…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 3

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held in the Lyceum Hall, West Maitland, yesterday. Mr. D. Watson,…

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Killingworth Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 4

The work of exploring all sections of Killingworth Colliery is practically completed and there is a new large number of hands engaged in the pit. It has been…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 4

The demand for coal continues exceptionally brisk, and the output for the last fortnight was unusually large for December. Of 85 pits at work in the…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 4

The special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation adjourned on Friday, was concluded in the Lyceum Hall, West Maitland, on…

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Mine on Fire. Only Three Escape. Knoxville (Tenn.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 5

An explosion at the main mine of the Great Mountain system, entombed probably a hundred miners. Throngs of women and children are…

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Alleged Mining Swindle. a Canadian Trial. Seattle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 5

An alleged mining swindle is before the Court. A. L. Moore and C. A. Moore are charged with using the United States…

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Mining Matters. Rhondda Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1911 · page 5

Rhondda Colliery has been idle for Several weeks. The miners who were working there were dissatisfied with the conditions in respect of the number of…

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The Engineers' & Colliery Supplies Depot. 403, 405, 407 Hunter-st

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1911 · page 3

WE claim to be the Most Up-to-date House in the trade, and Tradesmen will find it to their advantage to buy from us, for not only can they be…

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Colliery Federation Election

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 3

We have received several letters relating to the election of the president of the Colliery Employees' Federation. As the candidates are addressing meetings,…

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Our Coal Supply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 11

A month or two, ago, at the meeting of the British Association, Sir William Ramsay gave us all cold shivers by stating that our supply of coal would…

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Duped by Gold Lace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 9

How a purely fantastic uniform liberally embroidered with gold lace fascinated and deceived an entire town was related in Paris last month during the…

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Maitland Mining District. to Theatrical Managers and Others

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 6

The "Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate" is the only Daily Newspaper circulating extensively throughout the whole…

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Mining Disaster. Five Men Rescued. Knoxville (Tenn.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 5

In connection with the explosion at the Cross Mountain Mine, as a result of which many men were entombed, five men have been rescued alive, and 22…

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Mining Disaster. Another Fire Outbreak. All Hope Abandoned. Knoxville (Tenn.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 December 1911 · page 5

The fire at the Cross Mountain mine has broken out a second time, and all hope of saving the entombed miners has been abandoned…

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