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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 55

Mining Matters. a Peaceful Outlook

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 4

Statements have been in circulation during the past few days to the effect that trouble will in all likelihood be created by the miners at the cavils in…

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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Award. Miners' Lodge's Decision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 5

The complaint made last week by Mr. Kelynack, on behalf of too proprietors, that the Pelaw-Main Lodge had carried a resolution not to volunteer for cavilling…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 6

A special meeting of the Wadllsend Miners' Lodge was held in the Wallsend Masonic Hall on Monday evening, Mr. T. Richardson presiding over a good…

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Mine Disaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 8

Despatches to-day from Dawson, New Mexico, indicate that the appalling disaster which occurred on October 14 in South Wales was almost…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 2

A meeting of the Whitburn Miners' Lodge was held at Greta on Sunday. Mr. C. Beswick presided. The meeting was for the purpose of considering the…

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Southern Miners' Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 5

The ballot for the election of officers of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association has resulted in the return of Mr. J. Maguire as president, and Mr. A…

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Guarding Diamond Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 8

An army of spies is employed to protect the fabulous wealth of the famous De Beers diamond mines here (says the Kimberley correspondent of a London paper)…

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Coal-loading Congestion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 5

Matters in connection with the coal-loading of the port wore much the same yesterday, and the dredge was removed from the lower end of the Dyke wharf, to…

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Mines Rescue Station at Ipswich

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 5

At a meeting of the advisory committee of the Ipswich (Q.) Mines Rescue Station, Mr. T. W. Smith, the instructor presented his third quarterly report,…

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Newcastle Coal-loading. Improved Facilities

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 5

Yesterday, Mr. J. Davis, Director- General of Public Works, was in Newcastle, and had a consultation with representatives of the coal and shipping…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Lambton B Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 5

The wages board at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday consideration of the claim of the Lambton D. Colliery employees for an award for…

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Mining Explosion. Many Men Killed. Pathetic Scenes. Grand Junction (Col.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 5

An explosion occured yesterday in the Vulcan mine, near Newcastle, in the State of Colorado, which entembed the miners…

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Newcastle Coal-loading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 4

In connection with the scheme for improving the coal-loading facilities of the port, as proposed by the Public Works Department, the matter was considered by the coal and…

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Shunter Terribly Injured. Run Over by Coal Waggon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 4

Henry Brown, a shunter, 26 years of age, living at Conlotte-street, Cook's Hill, met with terrible injuries yesterday afternoon, through being run over by a coal waggon,…

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Mining Disaster. Several Men Entombed. Vienna

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 5

Two men have been rescued from a colliery in the Divaga Gorz district, where they had been entombed since' December 9th, owing to an inrush of…

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Mining Matters. the Wages Board. Lambton B Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 5

The wages board at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday continued consideration of the club of the Lambton B Colliery employees for an award for working…

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Mining Matters. Coal Dust Explosions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1913 · page 5

It is notified that any person desirous of submitting a statement, ver[?]ally or in writing, as to the best means of preventing explosions of coal dust being…

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Colliery Explosions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1913 · page 3

Sir,—The recent [?] colliery disaster in Wales has led to a good deal of discussion in Australian [?]coal mining circles, and it has opened o[?]ur eyes, to the tact…

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Victorian Miners' Claims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 December 1913 · page 5

Mr. F. Murphy, general secretary of the V.C.M.A. announced at Wonthaggi this week that the district management committee at its last meeting…

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Newcastle Coal Loading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 December 1913 · page 4

The State Public Works Department under its new direction may be given the fullest credit for desiring to carry out improvements in the coal-loading…

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