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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1902

233 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 12

The School of Arts. to the Editor Narr[?]mine News

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 1 August 1902 · page 2

Sir,—In connection with the balance sheet published in this issue, the committee of the School of Arts wish to thank Mesdames O'Neill, Grainger,…

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Mt. Kembla Disaster. Terrible Colliery Explosion. Sydney

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 3

News has been received of a terrible explosion at Mt Kembia. All available doctors have been sent for…

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Terrible Mining Disaster. Explosion in Mount Kembla Colliery. Two Hundred Men Entombed. (By Telegraph.) SYDNEY,July 31. 5 p.m

The Western Herald · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

News has been received of a [?] liery explosion at Mount Kembla. All the available doctors have been sent for. No farther particulars yet available…

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THE Latest Telegrams. Terrible Colliery Explosion. Sydney, Thursday night1

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 3

A terrible colliery explosion recurred this afternoon at Mount Kembla mine. Three hundred men are entombed. Later…

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In a Western Mining Camp

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 2

"Some of you know, probably," said the man in the mackintosh, "that I spent a summer out West. some years ago, in a mining camp…

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Notes for Mine Managers' Examination for Certicate of Competency. LECTURE 6

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 4

(1) The laying out and construction of shafts, chambers, main drives or levels, adits, uprises and stopes…

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120 Still missing 25 Bodies Recovered Mine on Fire Thursday, 7 p.m

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 3

Latest particulars state that 90 men so far have escaped. Three dead bodies have already been found…

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Terrible Mining Explosion at Mount Kembla. Several Hundred Men Entombed. Sydney

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 2 August 1902 · page 5

News has just been received of a terrible explosion at Mount Kembla Colliery, Wollongong. A terrific explosion took place at Mount Kembla Colliery about 2 p.m. to-day. It is…

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Appalling Mining Disaster. Explosion in Mount Kembla Mine. Scenes of Heartrending Grief. The Greatest of Now South Wales Mining Disasters

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 August 1902 · page 2

Special wires reached us on Thursday afternoon, after we had gone to press, of a mining catastrophe at Mount Kembla (a few miles from Wollongong) which from the…

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Terrible Mining Explosion at Mount Kembla

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 2

IT is now known that about 260 men were in the mine. Up to midnight on Friday 69 lifeless bodies were accounted for; 51 are still in the mine, and it is believed they must have…

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Mt. Kembla Mining Disaster. Total Death Roll, Eighty-seven. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, August 5

The Western Herald · Wednesday 6 August 1902 · page 2

Dr. Robertson says he has obtained sufficient data to sarisly him of the cause of the explosion at Mount Kembls, but he declines to make his opinion known at present…

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Notes for Mine Managers' Examination for Certicate of Competency

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 9 August 1902 · page 6

Assoc. M. Inst. Civil Engineers. Assoc. M. Inst. Mechanical Eng M. and C.E. University of Liege. 1st class Cert. Mine Manager,…

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The Miner’s Use of White Mice. Humble Little Life-savers

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 12 August 1902 · page 3

One of the first things to be done after the explosion was to send for a supply of white mice. At all up-to-date coal mines in…

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A miners' Grievance. (To the Editor.)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 August 1902 · page 5

Sir,—Kindly permit us, through your valuable columns, space enough to relate to the public generally how many a man is prevented from earning a good living, and…

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New Guinea Goldfields

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 August 1902 · page 6

Samarai, July 18—Mr. Charles Arboain, manager of Messrs. Burns, Philp's business in this part of the country, whose position makes him the most reliable authority on the…

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Coal Fields

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 6

It appears from the estimates of the most trustworthy authorities that the coal-fields of the world cover an area of about a million and a quarter square…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 5

Mr. William Cain, chairman of Cobar Chesney, is as sanguine as over as to the possibility of working it at a profit as a self. dependent concern. In the trial run of the…

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Ne[?] Gold [?] Covery

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 4

One of the most alturing finds of [?]luvial gold it has bee[?] our pleasure to chronicle for [?]me time(says the Batharst F[?] PRESS) was in evidence on…

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Notes for Mine Managers' Examination for Certicate of Competency. LECTURE 8

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 16 August 1902 · page 6

(1) The laying out and construction of shafts, chambers, main drives or levels, adits, uprises and stopes…

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Mining Scrip Forgeries

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 August 1902 · page 2

About £2000 have been obtained by forging mining scrip of two Bendigo mines. The frauds have been traced to Sydney, and are attributed to one person. The directors…

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