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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1926

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Coal Exploitation Big Developments Expected Goulburn

Northern Star · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

A British company which controls over £1,000,000 capital is expected to start exploiting coal at Bong Bong, near Berrima; also vast deposits of limestone at…

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Telegraphic News Drought at Broken Hill. No Water for Mining

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The manager of the Broken Hill water supply has given notice to the mining companies that no water for mining will be supplied…

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Water Shortage Plight of Broken Hill Miners to Stop Work Interstate Conference Called Broken Hill

Northern Star · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

Between 5000 and 6000 men will be thrown out of work on February 28 as a result of a shortage of water. Mr. Triggs, manager of the water…

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Redhead Disaster Witness says Lamps were not Fit to take Down Mine. Inquest on Victims Continued

Tweed Daily · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--At the inquiry into the explosion at the Redhead Colliery, Isaac Hoare, District Check Inspector, said that when he…

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Redhead Colliery Newcastle, Sunday. Serious Allegations

Northern Star · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 3

At the resumption of the inquiry into the explosion at Redhead colliery, Isaac Hoare, district check inspector, said when he went to the lamp room to get a lamp four days…

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Cost Billion Dollars Antracite Coal Miners Strike Settled After Lasting 165 Days. Disastrous to Pennsylvania

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The coal strike has just been settled after lasting 165 days, at an estimated cost of a billion dollars. The effects, which were felt through out the entire nation…

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Prospecting. Romance of Gold. "Roaring Days" of Old

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1926 · page 4

It is a far cry to the roaring days of the 'fifties and 'sixties, but the changes are that if it had not been for the early gold-rushes in New South…

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Redhead Mine Disaster Newcastle

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 5

The coroner's inquiry into the Redhead mine disaster was continued to-day. Commenting on the evidence of a miner given earlier in the inquiry to the effect that an…

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Buried Treasure President Kruger's Gold

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 6

Recent news that another expedition is contemplated to search for the buried treasure on Coces Island, in the Pacific is interesting, for it shows that there are…

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Alleged Sale of Gold Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 5

An attempt was made recently to induce the battery manager to sell gold from the Ajax mine at Daylesford, and the matter was placed in the hands of the police…

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Tyalgum Mine Application for Suspension of Labour Conditions Granted. £3000 Spent

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 2

Before Mr. W. S. Bromhead, P.M. in Murwillumbah Warden's Court yesterday, Herbert King, holder of a mining licence at Tyalgum, applied for…

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Anthracite Coal Strike (Reuter.) SCRANTON (Penn.)

Northern Star · Thursday 18 February 1926 · page 5

Anthracite miners to-day ratifield the agreement settling the strike…

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Fire at Coal Fields. Assumes Tremendous Proportions

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 3

The fire at Yallourn, where the great State fields of brown coal the situated, has assumed tremendous proportions. The open coal face is alight, and 300…

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Cheap Electricity Development on the North Coast. Combination of Coal and Water Power Favored. Chief Engineer's Report

Tweed Daily · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Since the present Government refused to honor the promise given by the late Nationalist Government to pay interest…

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Chapter Xiv the Mine Explodes

Northern Star · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 12

Unconscious of what was happening, or what was about to happen, to his yellow eonfederate, Constantine Levita made his way to Esselton Gardens, determined no longer…

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Anthracite Mines Reopen (Reuter.) VANCOUVER

Northern Star · Saturday 20 February 1926 · page 5

A message from [?]ranton (Pennsylvania) states that mining was resumed at the anthracite region to-day aftere nearly six months' idleness. Trouble marked the…

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Redhead Mine Resumption Newcastle

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 5

Work was begun to-day for getting Redhead mine in order for general resumption of work, probably next week. Shift men are now engaged in timbering the bottom…

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Redhead Mine. Resumption of Work

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Work was begun to-day getting the Redhead mine in order for a general resumption of work, probably next week…

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Naked Lights in Mines

Tweed Daily · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.-- Giving evidence before the Coal Commission in Sydney to-day, Mr. A. J. Miller, engineer in chief of the Queensland…

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Cause of Fires in Mines Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Coal Commission in Sydney to-day, A. J. Miller, engineer-in-chief of Queensland State coal mines, said the possibilities of fires originating…

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