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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

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Mining Dispute

Manilla Express · Wednesday 9 July 1902 · page 2

The southern coal miners and proprietors have not yet arrived at any amicable arrangement…

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Latest Telegraphic. SYDNEY, Saturday. Colliery Strick

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1902 · page 2

The strikers at Outrim Colliery, in Victoria, wrecked the house in which the nonunionist sheltered, in consequence of which the police arrested four persons, and other…

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Australian Opal and Opal Mining

Manilla Express · Wednesday 16 July 1902 · page 4

Considerable quantities of opal are found in Queensland and New South Wales. In the latter State the commoner kinds are found in many…

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Hepatic Congestion. "Strength and Happiness Again Mine." The Case of Mrs. E. GRAY

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1902 · page 4

We recently sent one of our specials to No. 15 Catherine-street, [?], to see Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, to whom he explained that his mission was to obtain the…

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Appalling Cates trophe. Mine Explosion at Mt. Kembla. 300 Men Entombed. Adjournment of Parliament. Sydney, Monday evening

The Moree News · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

A colliery explosion took place at the Mt Kembia mine, near camden this afternoon with awful consequence, no less than 300 men being…

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Latest Telegraphic. Terrible Colliery Disaster. Mount Kembla. Sydney

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

A terrible explosion occurred at Mount Kembla mine, Wollongong. Three hundred men were autombed. Later Latest particulars state that ninety men…

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In a Western Mining Camp

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

"Some of you know, probably," said the man in the mackintosh, "that I spent a summer out West. some years ago, in a mining, camp…

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Special Express Wires. Sydney, FRIDAY. Terrible Calamity. Hundreds of Miners Entombed. Heartrending Scenes. Rescue Parties Also Perish

Manilla Express · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

A terrible explosion has occurred at the Mount Kembla colliery. The shock was heard miles away, and doctors immediately proceeded to the…

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Latest Cables. South African Mines. London

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1902 · page 2

It is reported that 600,000 boys (astives) will be necessary before the [?] mines can attain their full development, while only 400,000 are now available…

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Our Coal Industry

Manilla Express · Saturday 30 August 1902 · page 3

Newcastle, in New South Wales, unlike many Australian places on which English names have been bestowed, is most appropriately…

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Gold Find. Rich Specimens Found

Manilla Express · Wednesday 3 September 1902 · page 2

THOSE immediately concerned with the find of gold, briefly reported in last issue, have grown infatuated with their prospects, so much so that…

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Mining

Manilla Express · Wednesday 10 September 1902 · page 2

SINKING operations have been carried out at the new find on Cuerindi station, and the shaft is now down about 16 feet. Good specimens…

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Gold and Silver Silk

Manilla Express · Saturday 13 September 1902 · page 3

We wonder if it is a traveller's tale We learn that gold and silver silk are coming from South Africa. The fibres are spun by two remark…

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The Coal Strike

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 2

The Danish railway authorities owing to a threatened strike in South Wales have transferred their orders for sixty thousand tons of coal to Germany…

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Colliery Fire

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 3

The fire at Corrimal colliery is still burning, it being more serois than was at first supposed…

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Mount Kembla Mine

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 3

Work is so be resumed at Mount Kembla Mine to-day…

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Coal Famine

Manilla Express · Wednesday 1 October 1902 · page 2

New York and Boston are threatened with a coal famine…

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Mount Kembla Mine

Manilla Express · Wednesday 1 October 1902 · page 2

Work is proceeding smoothly at the Mount Kembla mine…

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Colliery Disaster

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1902 · page 2

The winding rope in connection with a colliery in Moninouthehire broke, and the cage containing eight men fell 690 feet to the bottom of the shaft. The men were all…

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