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

Mining & the mines, 1911

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Broken Hill Miners

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 2

Broken Hill miners have accented an agreement for wages and conditions for the next four and a half years. Work will be resumed to-morrow…

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Mining Fatality. Virginia, Sunday Afternoon

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 2

Two Americans and six Italians wore killed at. Lickfork mine, near Matlewan. A cable parted and five loaded cars shooting down an incline, clashed into the car in…

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Big Coal Claim. Washington

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 4 January 1911 · page 2

Messrs. Clifford and Joseph Pinchot are urging President Taft to cancel immediately the Cunningham coal claims in Alaskar, valued at five million pounds, on the grounds…

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Mining Boom Again. at Southern Cross and Bullfinch

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Friday 6 January 1911 · page 2

Matters at Southern Cross anil Bullfinch mines are rapidly approaching a boom stage again. Investors, option seekers and speculators are flocking there in unprecedented…

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State Coal Mines. Sydney, Saturday. I

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 10

The question of establishing State coal mines is still under consideration by the Government…

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[?]Bed in a Mine

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 2

A number of men were catombed by a [?]p in the Rin Tinto copper mines. Spain. Five bodies have been discovered…

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Entombed in a Mine

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 2

A number of men were entembled by a landslip in the Rio Tinto copper mines Spain. Five bodies have been discovered…

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Mine Explosion. Lexington, Sunday Afternoon

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 2

Fifteen men were badly burned through an explosion at the Big Hill, colliery. Ten were blown from far down the shaft clear to the surface. It is a remarkable fact…

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Mine Explosion. Lexington, Sunday Afternoon

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 10 January 1911 · page 2

Fifteen met. were badly burned through an explosion at the Big Hill colliery. Ten were blown from [?] down the shaft clear to the surface. It is a remarkable fact…

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Mining Fatality. Madrid, Monday Afternoon

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 4

The roof of a tunnel in a copper mine at Rio Tinto (Portugal), collapsed, burying many workers. Five bodies were recovered, and five injured men taken out…

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Mining Fatality. Madrid, Monday Afternoon

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 4

The roof of a tunnel in a copper mine at Rio Tinto (Portugal), collapsed, burying many workers. Five bodies were recovered, and five injured men taken out…

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In New Caledonia. a Polygenous Population. Vast Mining Resources

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 6

The poulation of New Caledonia must surely be about the most polygenous in the world. Numbering but 52,000 in all, it includes whiles and natives, missionaries and…

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In New Caledonia. a Polygenous Population. Vast Mining Resources

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Wednesday 11 January 1911 · page 6

The poulation of New Caledonia must surely be about the most polygenous in the world. Numbering but 52,000 in all, it includes whites and natives, missionaries and…

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Accident Im a Colliery. West Maitland

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 2

While about 70 miners were going into Hetton colliery, Carrington, to-day, riding on a number of skips, one skipped and became derailed, throwing several of the men…

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Accident Im a Colliery. West Maitland

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Tuesday 17 January 1911 · page 2

While about 70 miners were going into Hetton Colkery, Carrington, to-day, riding on a number of skips, one skipped and became derailed, throwing several of the men…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 4

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys. of 163 King-street, Sydney, and a Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents connected…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 4

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents connected…

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Forty Miners Killed. Berlin, Friday Evening

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 10

Forty miners were killed In the workings of the Casimir mine on the Russian Silesian trontier. 360 escaped…

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Forty Miners Killed. Berlin, Friday Evening

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 10

Forty miners were killed in the workings of the Casimir mine on the Russian Silesian [?]rontier. 360 escaped…

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Colliery Employees and Shaleworkers' Association. Sydney

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 2

When the matter of the equity suit in which Frederick Brinsmead is asking for an injunction to restrain the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association from joining the…

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