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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Death of Mining Investor. Melbourne

Northern Star · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 3

Joseph English, a mining investor, largely interested in Berry Consols, died at Melbourne to-day; aged 8[?]. He left property roughly estimated at…

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Colliery Accident. London, Thursday Afternoon

Northern Star · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 9

The cage at Ferndale Colliery, South Wales, fell thirty feet. One man was killed and 11 seriously injured…

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Gold Discovery

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 7

THE Bullfinch Mine, 23 miles north of Southern Cross (W.A.), which was discovered in heavily timbered country last November, is one of the most…

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Gold Discovery Rush. Vancouver

Northern Star · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 9

A placer gold discovery at Goat River, Kootenay district of British Columba, is causing a rush…

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Sealed Mine Reopened. London, Friday Night

Northern Star · Monday 26 September 1910 · page 3

The Wellington mine at Whitehaven has been reopened, and the recovery of the 186 missing bodies of colliers will begin after ventillation…

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A Gold Rush. London

Northern Star · Monday 26 September 1910 · page 3

A "placer" gold discovery at Goat River in the Kootenay district, British Columbia, is causing a rush…

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Welsh Coal for Egypt. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 5

The Egyptian State railwnys have ordered 300,000 tons of Cardiff and Monmouthshire coal…

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Coal Miner Killed. Crushed by Fall of Stone. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 September 1910 · page 5

The boby of a miner named Richard Eyans, who was cntoumbed by a fall [?] coal at Kurri Kurrl mine, was recovered late last night. Life had been extinct for…

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Exploration of Whitehaven Colliery. London, Wednesday Afternoon

Northern Star · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

The party which entered the Whitehaven Celliery discovered the first bodies at the obstruction which impeded exploration…

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Miners' Troubles. London, Wednesday Night

Northern Star · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

The Nottinghamshire Miners' Association has followed the example of the Lancashire and Cheshire miners while awaiting the restoration of the unfettered use…

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Mining Riot. Vancouver

Northern Star · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

A riot happened at Monarch mining camp, Colorado. Dynamite was used, and a fire thus browe out. One is dead and many are injured…

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Gold Strike in Alaska. Vancouver

Northern Star · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 5

The latest place to strike gold in Alaska is in the Kenal River…

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Mining Accidet. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 9

Two miners named Wella and Best were working on the 200 feet Ievel at the Pinnacles Consols mine, at Broken Hill, when a fall of earth occurred, burying both…

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Mining Congress Opposed to Mr. Roosevelt. Vancouver

Northern Star · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 9

The American Mining Congress opposes Mr. Roosevelt and Pinchot's conservation policies, declaring that it favour's State control of natural resources as opposed to…

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Illustrated Notes from all over the World the Art of Submarine Mining

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 1 October 1910 · page 3

The cult of the submarine mine has advanced with great rapidity in recent years, albeit it has a longer history than most people are apt to suppose…

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Colliery Troubles. London

Northern Star · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 3

A total of 8000 of the South Wales collieries became idle yesterday, and notices from 12,380 expire to-day. In all 9000 Cambrians tendered notices yesterday…

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Hundred Miners Killed. Vancouver

Northern Star · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 3

It is reported that a hundred miners have been killed in a mine at Palen, in Mexico…

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Mining Disaster in Mexico. Vancouver

Northern Star · Monday 3 October 1910 · page 3

The latest regarding the colliery disaster at Palen, in Mexico, states a gas explosion occurred in the m[?]e, and 150 native and Japanese miners were entombed…

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Determined Miners. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 5

After a year's stike in consequence of the readjustment of wages owing to the instalment of new mnrhlnery, 900 miners at the Clifton colliery, Nottingham, have…

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Me[?]ico Mining Disastep. Vancouver, Monday Afternoon

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 October 1910 · page 5

Seventy-two miners, Mexicans and Japancse, have been killed in a mining disaster. at Monterey. New Mexico…

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