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Mining & the mines, 1904

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Bago Mines

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 2

We have pleasure in congratulataing Messrs. Timmis, F. Taylor, E. Eyles, and others holding shares in the tunnel claim at Bago, on the…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 3

M. O'Dwyer and party started on Monday to crush 11½ tons at the Reefer Battery from their mine at Mt. Adrah. Mr. O'Dwyer informs us that…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 3

The Forest Creek Gold Roofs, Castlemaine, Vie., have re-started. Three claims arc on gold at the new alluvial find at Havilah, Mudgee, N.S.W…

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MINING. District Mining

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 2

Considerable revival has been made recently in mining in the districts that radiate from this centre. Water is plentiful everywhere; and valuable minerals…

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A Mine Exploded. 700 Russian Casualties. London, Nov. 10

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 2

During the fighting at Itzu-shan a severe disastor befel the Russians. A Japanese shell exploded a mine in tho fort with torible rosults to the…

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The Coal Trimmers Strike. Unionists Determined. Interstate Trade Hampered Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 2

The strike of coal trimmers continued at Newcastle to-day against the Newcastle Stevedoring Company. The alleged King's Birthday holiday, in connection…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 15 November 1904 · page 3

Mr. Ferguson, the mining representative of the "Sydney Morning Herald," who has been touring these districts and last week was through…

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Telegrams. Miners and Others. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 2

The Arbitration Court to-day delivered judgment in the ease of die Coalminers' Protective Association against the Lithgow Valley Colliery…

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"The Miners' Revenge." Staged by the Dramatic Club

The Temora Star · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 2

On Monday night last the members of the local Dramatic Club staged Paul Merritt and Henry Petitt's thrilling drama "The Miners' Revenge." This…

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Gold and Debts. a Continent in Pawn. a Bold and Vigorous Sugestion

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 2

GOLD -- For the first ton months of the current year the gold yield was 211,764uz. of the Value of £809,512. For the corresponding period of preceding year it…

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Colliery Disaster. Miners Thrown From Runaway Skips. London. Nov. 15

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 17 November 1904 · page 2

A seneational aceident occurred yesterday at the Maesteg Deep Colliery, at Maesteg, in Wales. While a line of skips, in which 72 miners…

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Welsh Coal Purchased

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 November 1904 · page 2

Since January over a million tons of Welsh coal have been shipped to Japan and Russia…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 3

The Deep Lead, Corowa, N.S.W. failing to get a bite from English investors, has closed down. The Bronla King mine's cyanide plant,…

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Shocking Mining Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 6

The long list of mining fatalities recorded in the Kalgoorlie mines during the past year was supplemented on Wednesday morning by the death,…

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Greedy Mine Owners. Grasping for Dividends While Workers Starve. Nationalization the Only Way Out

The Worker · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 4

I have been connected with coalmining for the lust 24 years. During that period many changes have taken place; but, at no time in the history of Newcastle, has such…

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Terrible Colliery Explosion

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

A gas explosion in the Minissey Collieries, British Columbia, caused the death of 13 men…

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Mining

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

It in pleasing to be able to report that a [?] of the reter [?] has been and are can see to reason why now…

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Sensational Story. Coal for Vladivostock. Shipped From Newcastle. Vessel Strikes a Submarine Mine. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 3

Some interesting particulars have reached Newcastle in reference to the voyage of the steamer Tiberius, of Hamburg, which left Newcastle in May…

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Mining Notices

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 3

The undermentioned authority, granted in terms of section 28, Mining Act, 1874, has been cancelled:—J. Wright, GL 2, county Buccleuch,…

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Gold at Cobar

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

Rich gold has been struck in the Birthday mine, Cobar, assays yielding 16 ounces per ton…

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