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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 3

Cadzon and party crushed 20 tons of quartz at the Reefer Battery from their mine, the Blue Beef, adjoining the Gibraltar Mine, which is reported…

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Mining. Tumbarumba

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 2

Prospects on the Upper Murray tin mining field are very favourable, the tin met with being of course and good quality. A Sydney company at Jingellie are…

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Important Gold Discovery at Laurel Hill

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 3

AFTER months of hard work in driving and drilling a tunnel through the granite walls that underly the basaltic rocks capping the old auriferous river…

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Expansion of the Dredging Industry. Starting the New Barge. at Grahamstown. the Largest Gold Dredging Works in the World

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

DELIGHTFUL weather was experienced at Grahamstown on Saturday afternoon last, when the new dredging plant purchased by Messrs Davies and…

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Mining. Wyalong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 3

The True Blue has broken through to the Brilliant at 800ft. The reef is hardly as promising as that from which the good yields have been obtained for a total…

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A Mining Scandal. Who's Pulling the Strings?

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 2

A case surrounding with what can can only be termed the gravest suspicion came under our notice at the Warden's Court on Monday last. It…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 2

Lord Nelson (St. Arnand, Vic.) for a four weeks run put through 2002 tons, which, with cyanide and pyrites, gave 9200z. Heavy rains at Derby (Tas.) last week…

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A State Coal Mine

The Worker · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 4

What is known as the Coal Commission in Victoria, which was appointed to inquire into the working of many of the coal mines there an a result of complaints made by…

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Miners' Complaint. Instructive Address by Dr. Napthine

The Worker · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 3

Dr. Napthine, of Stawell, who has made a study of "miners" complaint," addressed the conference on the vital necessity of this question being more closely studied by…

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Victorian Miners in Conference. Annual Assembly of the A.m.a. Important Questions Discussed.—a Warm Welcome to the Worker

The Worker · Thursday 8 March 1906 · page 3

The annual conference of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria and Tasmania commenced at Stawell (Victoria) on Tuesday, February 27th the chair being…

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Adelong. Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 2

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday last the engines and pumps were kept running on the new barge at Grahamstown, to get the bearings and…

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South Africa, Transvaal Mines. London. March 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 2

French shareholders in South African mines are greatly concerned at the agitaion in Great Britain against the employment of Chinese labor in the…

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Colliery Disaster

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

There has been a terrible disaster in a colliery at Conrrfirer, France. Three gallcries of the mine were convorted into a mass of flame reaching…

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Received at 1 am. The American Coal Miners Demands Refused London, March 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

A despatch from New York states that the demands of the miners in the anthracite coal fields for a readjustment of wages and better conditions…

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Mining Disaster. Over a Thousand Lives Lost a Colliery on Fire. Four Hundred Rescued. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

A terrible mining disaster is reported from Courrieres, Fronce. A fire, which broke out in a mine at a depth of 700ft., led to a terrific explosion at 7 o'clock on…

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Assault and Robbery. Youth Knocked Senseless. Mine Salaries Stolen

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 4

A sensational case of assault and robbery occurred -on the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, late on Friday afternoon. A youth named names Groutsch, 19…

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Mines on Fire. a Vast Furnace. Nearly 1200 Deaths London, March 11

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

An awful calamity has occurred in France, where—according to the latest estimate—nearly 1,200 men have met a terri[?] death while at work in the…

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Latest News. Received Up to 2 a.m. the Roll Call. an Appalling Catastrophe. Splendid Deeds of Heroism. Awful Scenes in the Mine. London, Sunday Afternoon

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2

The latest roll call at the Courrieres mine shows that 691 miners have been rescued, and 1219 have been asphixiated or crushed to death…

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News by Cable the Colliery Disaster London

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

The latest estimate of deaths in the French colliery disaster is upwards of II00. The disaster has caused a profound…

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That Mining Scandal

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 2

IN this electorate during the past 12 months there have been unearthed one or two scandals that would make a tombstone blush, but these most…

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