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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Prosperity, Taut a Wrens Policy. Wool, Grain, sod GOLD

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 2

THE boom that this journal predicted in the latter part of the seven leau yean is now fairly on in Australia. I is now a time of rejoicing from one…

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New South Wales. Mining Fatality. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1906 · page 2

A miner named Sandford was killed at the British Mine, Broken Hill, on Saturday night through a fall of rock. DEATH IN A BATH…

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Mining. Cullinga Mines

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

A couple of new applications have been made for opening old workings on the Cullinga field…

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The Coal Muddle. SYDNEY

The Temora Star · Wednesday 3 October 1906 · page 2

A telegram from Kurri Kurri states that work is proceeding smoothly at all the collieries which resumed work on Sunday night…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 3

Already this year gold to the value of £2,550,000 has been shipped from Sydney to San Francisco. Commonwealth gold exports up to date…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 2

An English syndicate is to take over the Black Horse (Egerton), but terms and conditions are not yet matters of public knowledge. Bewick Moreing and Co…

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Barrier Mines Booming

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 3

Figures collected on Saturday show that there are 8,200 men now employed on the Barrier mines, whilst those employed at the smelters at Port…

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Minister Moore and the Wallsend Miners

The Worker · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 5

At the last meeting of the Wallsent miners a letter was read from Mr. Moore, Minister for Mines, which by no stretch of imagination can be conceived to be a reply…

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The Mining Bill

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

In the Assembly, the Mining Bill passed in Committee. A clause was carried taking away from the holders of Conditional Purchases the right of…

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Colliery Explosion

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

A serious explosion has occurred at the Pocahontas collieries, Virgina. Seventy-five miners have been entombed…

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Miners in Conference. the Eight Hours Bill Approved

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 2

The Miners' Federation Conference sifting at Swansea yesterday approved of the Eight Hours in Mines Bill as it passed the second reading in the House…

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A Goldfields Murder. "Dry-blower" Arrested Wearing an Iron Breatstplate

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 6

At Cue (W.A.) on Wednesday, Abaz Wren, aged 43, who has been dry-blowing around the town for eight or nine year, was arrested on a charge of…

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Union and Non-union Miners

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 October 1906 · page 2

The Warwickshire Miners' Union has issued an ultimatum to the non-unionists to join the union within a fortnight. The Union threatens to strike in the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 6

Mr. A. R. Campbell, who has ben manager dredging concerns at Enfield, near Ballarat, has ben appointed a Government inspector of dredging…

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Welsh Coal Mines

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 3

The "Daily Mail" reports that Germans have gradually purchased the interests of the original owners of the Whitworth colliers at Neath, in Glamorganshire…

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Coal-cum-shipping Combine

The Worker · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 2

On Friday last, the coalowners of Northern N.S.W. completed a combination to control the output of collieries on the Newcastle and Maitland fields. All the mines except…

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Germany Wants Welsh Coal. London, Oct. 9

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 2

German speculators have gradually purchased all the shares of the original owners of the Whitworth Collieries at Neath, in Wales. These collieries…

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Daring Mine Robbery. a Kalgoorlie Sensation. Thieves Five Hundred Feet Underground. Kalgoorlie

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 3

One of the most daring robberies of gold ore that has ever been committed in Kalgoorlie was carried out last night in the underground works of the…

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Daring Gold Robbery Thieves in the Cheat Boulder Operations Underground. a Climb of 500 Feet

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 October 1906 · page 1

One of the most daring robberies of gold, ore that has ever been committed in Kaigoorlie was carried out on Sunday night in the underground works of…

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The Flood. Serious Damage to the Grahamstown Gold Estates

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 12 October 1906 · page 3

THE heavy rains of last week in flooding the Adelong Greek had a most disastrous effect in the mines of Messrs Davies & Kershaw at…

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