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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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India Is Burial Ground for the World's Gold

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 3

A royal commission has been appointed by Great Britain to discover what India does with all the gold it takes away from the rest of the world…

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Mining Lease Cancelled

Northern Star · Monday 1 December 1913 · page 4

The [?]ning lease P.M.A. 8 of 20 acres in the parish of Mullumbimby sued to J. W. Rose, has been cancelled, and the land is available for occupation in [?]erms of the…

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Miners Resume. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 December 1913 · page 5

The Stockton Borehole miners have resumed work this morning after being on strike for ten months…

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Trouble at Newcastle. Miners May Join. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 5

It is stated on good authority at Newcastlo that it will only be a matter of a few days when the trouble will extend to the miners in the Northern collieries. The…

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Mine Disaster. Men Men Entombed. Cripple Creek (Colorado)

Northern Star · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 5

Eight men were entombed when the sides of the Golden Cycle Mine caved in, but their escape, it is believed, will probably be effected, Simultaneously a cavein…

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Mine Disaster. Cr[?]ple Creek

Northern Star · Monday 8 December 1913 · page 3

Further falls of rock have prevented access to the bodies of the entombed miners, and hope has been abandoned. The rescuers were nearly entombed by the frequent…

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Fire in a Mine. Berlin

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 5

A fire has broken out in a mine at Rylmik, as a result of which thirteen miners have been killed and three are missing…

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Welsh Strike. Mine Owner's Adnice. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 December 1913 · page 5

Mr. D. A. Thomas, managing director of the Cambrian Combine and other co[?]iery companies in South Wales, in a speech at Cardiff, said the time had now come…

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Great Cobar Mine. London

Northern Star · Thursday 11 December 1913 · page 5

Mr. Harvey, a director, in a report of a visit to the Great Cobar mine recommends a reorganisation of the entire staff and a change in the general management, and…

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British Labor Affairs. Miners' Demand. London

Northern Star · Saturday 13 December 1913 · page 7

The Miners' Federation conference passed a resolution expressing regret at the rejection of the demand for a fifteen, per cent. advance in surfacemen's wages. It is…

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Not Guilty. Beaufont Mines Case. Melbourne

Northern Star · Saturday 13 December 1913 · page 7

In the case of George Thompson, who was charged at Ballarat with having shot at John Tyers and John Roberts during the unionist riots at Beaufort Mines with…

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New Gold Fields Lurl Hordes of Fortune Hunters

Northern Star · Saturday 13 December 1913 · page 5

New gold discoveries in Canada and Alaska which have created excitement in some sections of the North-West have been reported in considerable detail to the…

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Latest Cablegrams Mine Disaster. Vienna

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 5

A cage at the Erna mine fell 950ft. and seven miners were killed…

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Wonderful Mexico. Where Streets Are Really Paved with Gold

Northern Star · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 8

Legends of the lost mines of Mexico are no more startling than the recent experience of an American mining engineer who visited the old abandoned gold smelters of…

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Mining Explosion. Number of Men Entombed. Grand Junction (Colorado)

Northern Star · Thursday 18 December 1913 · page 5

An explosion in the Vulcan mine in the neighborhood of Newcastle entombed forty to fifty miners. Rescuers were unable to enter owing to the after-damp…

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Mine Disaster. Vienna

Northern Star · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 5

Two men have been rescued from a colliery, in the Divagagorz district, who have been entombed since December 9th, owing to an inrush of water. One corpse was…

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Finnerty's Law. Justice on the Goldfields. Death of an Old Pioneer

Northern Star · Friday 19 December 1913 · page 7

Australia is the poorer by tho loss of a picturcsque pioneer. J. W. Finnerty died last week at Geraldton, West Australia, aged 60 years…

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Where the Streets are Really Paved with Gold

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1913 · page 7

Legends of the lost mines of Mexico are no more startling than the recent experience of an American mining engineer who visited the old…

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What Coal Can Do

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1913 · page 3

Does anyone realize the power of coal as a worker? A man was set to work to pump as hard as he could all day, and at the end of ten hours it…

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The Minister for Mines. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 December 1913 · page 13

The Hon. A. Edden denies that he is going to resign his portfolio as Minister for Mines. "The Party," he says, "put me in and only the Party can put me out."…

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