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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1904

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 22 October 1904 · page 2

SMELTING operations have been retarded for a few days at Crowl Creek, where the smelters went on strike, the question raised being that of hours of…

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Mine Wages and the Cost of Living Interview with Mr. V. H. Blakemore. a Sensational Suggestion

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 22 October 1904 · page 5

The manager of the Great Cobar Copper Mine, Mr. G. H. Blakemore,was good enough to accede this week to the HERALD'S request for an interview on the…

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Gold From Euchareena

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 October 1904 · page 2

On Friday morning Mr. J. Edwards of Eucbareena was in Orange and had with him some good gold specimens from the new field. The white quartz…

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The Mining Fire, Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 26 October 1904 · page 3

The fire in the Brilliant Mine, Charters Towers is rapidly burning out. It is thought tnat it is now under control…

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Important to Miners. Remarks by the Warden

The Wellington Times · Thursday 27 October 1904 · page 5

At Stuart Town last Thursday the Warden had sortie remarks to offer to holders of authorities which are of importance to them. In our report…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 2

The smelters who have been on strike at Shuttleton mine resumed work on Monday last, the work being taken on contract…

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Blown Up by Miners Sequel to a Strike

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 5

A labor dispute has had a remarkable sequel in South Wales. At the Tyrergyd Colliery, near Aberdare, the owners and workmen have…

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An Eccentric Old Woman Hoards of Gold

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 3

Robbery appears to have been the only motive for a most brutal murder which was discovered at Accrington early yesterday morning, 25th August…

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Blown Up by Miners Sequel to a Strike

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 3

A labor dispute has had a remarkable sequel in South Wales. At the Tyrergyd Colliery, near Aberdare, the owners and workmen have…

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Commonwealth Mine School

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 November 1904 · page 2

A social will be held at the Commonwealth Mine on Saturday next, 12th instant, in aid of the fund for erecting a school there. This is a…

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Explosion in a Colliery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 3

A gas explosion look place yesterday in the Good Hope colliery, Ipswich, blowing the cage out of the shaft and severely burning the manager and his son…

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State Gold Yield

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 November 1904 · page 3

The State gold yield for the month of October was 15,719 ozs. crude, equal to 13,983 oza. fine, valued at £59,395, as compared with 82 319 ozs…

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The Latest Telegrams. Coal Miners' Strike. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 5

As a result of the strike of the coal tri[?]mers,trade in Newcastle is paralysed. The men held a meeting and decided not to go to work unless their demands for holiday…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 2

Understood that an application for suspension of labor conditions at the Funk will come before the Warden this day week…

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A Colliery Company Fined

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 1

The Arbitration Court to-day imposed a fine of £20, with costs, on the Lithgow Valley Colliery Company for employing workmen to fill slack coal while the miners were willing to…

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Killed in a Mine

The Wellington Times · Thursday 17 November 1904 · page 4

At a Kalgoorlie (W.A.) mine yesterday a miner named Samuel Eddy was killed by an explosion, the body being mutilated. Two other men were rendered unconscious…

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Mining at Cobar

The Wellington Times · Thursday 17 November 1904 · page 4

A meeting is being held at Cobar between the delegates from the Amalgamated Miners' Association, Wrightville, and the manager, shareholders,…

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Mining

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 5

The Premier Syndicate, at the Peak, is now down 108ft in the boundary shaft. Galena is showing freely on the eastern side if the shaft…

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Hargraves and Hill End Mining

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 November 1904 · page 2

Work is being pashed on vigorously at the Big Nugget Mine, Hargraves, by the new proprietors, who are enlarging and timbering the shaft to…

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Fatal Accident on a Gold Field

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 23 November 1904 · page 3

Mr. Gore, manager of a battery on Murchison gold-field, was starting the fly wheel of the battery, when his foot slipped through the spokes. He was whirled round at a terrific…

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