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Mining & the mines, 1906

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Broken Hill Mine Fire. SYDNEY

The Temora Star · Wednesday 21 March 1906 · page 2

The fire in the Proprietary Mine at Broken Hill has been blocked and is unlikely to spread beyond certain limits…

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Straight Australian a Banquet in a Coal Mine

The Worker · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 4

Let not this be misconstrued by the Reidites into an expression of disloyalty on the part of an official Labor journal, it is intended only as an expression of curious…

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All About the Miners' Conference. Its Personnel and Its Work Personal, Political, and General Snapshots by Our Special Representative

The Worker · Thursday 22 March 1906 · page 2

It would be hard to select a finer combination of business men than the delegates who attended the fourteenth annual conference of the Amalgamated Miners'…

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Songs That Are Gold Mines

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 3

Talk about gold mines, said a leading music publisher; why, I can assure you there are scores of gold mines floated on a capital running into six figures…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 23 March 1906 · page 3

MR. J. Beale senr. showed us a telegram yesterday sent by Mr. W. Merryful from Kiandra as follows:-"Struck reef McMillan's 200ft from shaft; three…

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Mining. Stockinbingal

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 March 1906 · page 3

The undermentioned application for permission to mine, under roads, &c., under the Mining Act of 1874, section 28, has been refused:—…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 2

Gold-mining lease approved.-—W. Riordan and another, GL, 115, 4a 0r, 16p, ph. King, co. Selwyn. Last Monday week Messrs Keys and…

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French Coal Strike. Sympathy in Germany

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 March 1906 · page 2

The coal miners in Western Germany sympathise strongly with the miners in the north of France, 60,000 of whom have struck for higher wages…

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Mining Items

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 2

ON Saturday last the Warden's Bailiff offered, under a writ of execution, all the right, title and interest to lease of the 40 acres of land on…

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Gold in the Sea Sand

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1906 · page 4

At Shellharbour a number of "sea miners" are working constantly extracting gold from the sand. The method of working is primitive—very…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 29 March 1906 · page 3

Proceedings have been initiated against three Castlemaine dredge managers for permitting slum to escape from the workings. The cases will be heard in the local police…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 2

Twelve tons of stone from Oakes and party's claim, Bongongolong, will be treated at the Reefer battery, Adelong, this week…

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Prince of Wales Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 30 March 1906 · page 6

On Saturday Mr. Ellis, the warden's baliff, acting under a judgement obtained by V. T. Edquist and Sun Yek and Co. in the Wardon's Court, against…

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News by Cable Colliery Disaster London

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1906 · page 3

200 lives have been lost by an explesion in a colliery in Japan…

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French Mine Disaster Thirteen Miners Rescued. Terrible Sufferings. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

Thirteen minors have just been rescued alive, but in a terribly emaciated condition, from tho Courrieres mine, in France, in which 1795 men were…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

The floating of the No. 2 barge of the Grahamstown Gold Estates was accomplished on Friday and it has been lowered to it working level and is fair on the…

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Public Opinion, the Coolac Mining Reserve. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 April 1906 · page 2

SIR,—Some time ago your contemporary had a deal to say about the monopoly of land held by Dalgety and Co. at Bombowl[?], and the injustice of…

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The Mine Disaster. LONDON

The Temora Star · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 2

Explorers estimate that 150 entombed miners lived for several days after the fire occurred in the mine at Courrieres, France…

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Thirteen French Miners Saved at a Fearful Price. Subsisted on Human Flesh and Bark. Terrible Experience

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1906 · page 4

Thirteen miners, in a terribly emaciated condition, have been rescued from the Courrieres mine, in France. They maintained a wretched existence…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 3

The Shaw rock drill is being tested in the Jubilee mine at Scarsdale, V. All branches of the Victorian and Tasmanian A.M.A. have been warned that the…

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