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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

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Colliery Explosion. Good Rescue Work. E[?]les (Vieginia)

Northern Star · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 5

Sixty-seven persons were rescued alive from the New River Colliery after all hope had been abandoned. A hundred and seventy are still entombed behind the…

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P[?]ar Quicksilver and Copper Mining Co., Ltd

Northern Star · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 4

The Secretary reports that the reducing plant has been kept going on the [?] at grass [?] report and it is [?] the [?] in a satisfactory manner. Owing…

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The Colorado Strike. President Wilson Calls a Conference. Pitched Battle at the Mine. Vancouver

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 3

President Wilson has invited the presidents of the Kentucky Mine Operators' Association and the Alabama Mine Operatives' organisation to go to…

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Gold-Stealing Scheme

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 1

The Kalgoolie correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a clever scheme of gold stealing was discovered…

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Gold Robbery. Rome

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 May 1914 · page 5

Robbers at Lacked two bank messengers at Genoa and stole six thousand sterling in gold…

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Fatal Explosion. Bendigo Mining Catastrophe. Searchers' Awful Discovery. Bodies Almost Unrecognisable. Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 May 1914 · page 5

The most tragic mining disaster in the history of the Bendigo field occurred at the Great Extended Hustlers' Mine on Saturday night, when as the result of an…

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Miners' Demonstration. Throws All the Mines Idle. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 May 1914 · page 5

A demonstration of two thousand Illawarra collieries' employees was held at Wollongong yesterday. The miners' wives and children arrived by special trains…

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Colliery Trouble Settled. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 May 1914 · page 5

The trouble at Wallarah coalmine practically has been settled by the reinstatement of a man whos e dismissal had been objected to…

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Mining Disaster. Seven Men Killed. Melbourne

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 May 1914 · page 5

The most tragic mining disaster in the history of Bendigo, occurred at the Great Extended Hustlers' Mine on Saturday night, when as the result…

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Miners' Annual Report. Mine Inspection a Farce. the Non-unionst Struggle. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 4

The annual report of the Federated Mining Employees' Association states that the present system of mine inspection is a farce, providing a Government bille[?] for…

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Beach Mining

Northern Star · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 4

Two application for dredging [?] have been lodged at the Grafton Mining Warden's Office, each containing an area of fifty ar[?] parish of Scop, for treating…

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Fight with Miners. Echo of the Colorado Strike. New York

Northern Star · Thursday 7 May 1914 · page 5

Tried on a charge of disorderly conduct outside Rockefeller's office Mar[?] Ganz, whose husband was shot in the conflict between soldiers and [?] at Rockefeller's…

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Beach Mining at Ballina

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 6

Mr. Herbert Rose, F.G.S., M.E., a mining expert with wide experience in Klondyke, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, who…

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Baths for Goal Miners

Tweed Daily · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 7

Among the bills to be introduced in the New South Wales Parliament next session is one to amend the Coal Mines Regulation Act. Mr. Cann intends to…

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Washing in Gold

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 3

A French journalist who had speculated in railway shares won 200,000f. as the result of a lucky venture. Drawing it in gold, he proceeded to an…

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Terrible Mining Disaster

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 5

Seven men were killed in a mining accident at Bendigo on Saturday, as a result of an explosion in the Great Extended Hustlers mine. The victims…

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Killed in the Mines. Americans Surrounded. Washington

Northern Star · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 7

Two British subjects have been killed in the [?] at Guadalajara. Several Americans were surrounded in the neighborhood, their into being unknown…

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[?] Mining [?]

Northern Star · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 4

Says the "B[?] the Ballina Gold and [?] effected a rather startling break from obscurity last week. [?] proposed…

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Attacked by Foot[?]s Man Robbed of Gold Watch. Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 11 May 1914 · page 5

While Thomas Hetherington was walking along Campbell-street last night be was attacked by two men and robbed of a gold watch. He was caught [?] the…

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New[?]st Gold Field

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 7

Unless a long list of most experienced engineers have committed an error of judgment, the Gas inean district of Al[?] de[?]ned to become, during the next five…

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