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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 3

The Harden (N.S.W.) West shaft is down. 128ft., and the ground has become harder. Where banks operate the W.A…

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N.S.W. Colliery Troubles. North, South, and West

The Worker · Thursday 14 February 1907 · page 11

The miners in N.S.W. western collieries are asking for a fixed hewing rate instead of the sliding scale provided by the Arbitration award. The proprietors offer a…

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Colliery Trucks Bolt. Six People Killed

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

Several trucks connected with the tramway, at the Trimsara colliery; Kid-welly, South Wales, got beyond control and Dolled. In their career they killed…

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Shares in a Mining Claim

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1907 · page 2

James Joseph Caningham v. William Foster, balance of money due, £3/13/5 Mr. Fraser for plaintiff, Mr. Weekes for defendant…

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Mining

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 2

Messrs Culuane and Donnelly, who had been engaged working the old Sybil mine, Reno, on tribute for a period of about 20 months, have given up…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 21 February 1907 · page 13

The management of the Budgery Mines Co., is to be removed from Cobar to Syd-ney. Applications for the new issue of shares…

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Colliery Strike

The Worker · Thursday 21 February 1907 · page 14

At Mount Kembla (N.S.W.) on Tuesday a number of men employed as fillers behind the coal-cutting machines struck when their demand for a rise from 10d…

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Russia. Latest News. Received Up to 2 a.m. Through Blood to Gold Wholesale Slaughter in a Bank. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 February 1907 · page 2

Revolutionaries, bent on robbery, made an attack on a bank in a suburb of Warsaw, and, fighting the opposition offered them, killed seven clerks,…

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Mining Notes

Tumbarumba Times · Wednesday 27 February 1907 · page 2

Information regarding the Deep Lead tunnelling at Laurel Hill is rather meagre, but I hear that Woods and party, in the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 11

The Budgery North intends to sink immediately a new shaft 450ft. oast of No. 2 shaft. The Gulf Creek copper mine, Manilla…

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0Eath in the Mines

The Worker · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 5

The persistent refusal of Mines Minister M'Leod to sanction a test of the blower system of ventilation in the Bendigo mines evinces a reckless disregard for human life…

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The Alleged Gold Stealing in W.a

The Worker · Thursday 28 February 1907 · page 15

The report of the Royal Commissioner (Mr. A. E. Barker) on the alleged goldstealing., from W.A. goldfields concludes thus:—"I am satisfied that considerable…

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Looted Gold Mines. a Series of Robberies

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 3

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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English Goldfield. "Reef 31 Miles Long."

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 1 March 1907 · page 5

For some time past rumors have been afloat as to the discovery of a gold-field in England within 200 miles of London. It has been stated in whispers that the…

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Mount Morgan. the World's Greatest Copper Mine. Its Romantic History

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1907 · page 3

In the history of mining, no more romantic story in to be found than that of the Mount Morgan Mine in Queensland, which was purchased by…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 11

Cash's mine at Essington (N.S.W.) is again in full swing. A further contract has been let to sink the C.S.A. (N.S.W.) shaft…

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Ballarat Miners' Sports

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 5

Dear Worker,—Your correspondent, whoever he may be, who supplied you with the par re Ballarat miners' sports takings (a probable £10) and who concludes his…

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Miners in Conference an Encouraging Annual Report

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 20

The Annual Conference of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria and Tasmania was held this year at Melbourne in the Trades Hall. The chair was…

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Search for Gold. Bitter Cry From Below. Cheapness of Flesh and Blood

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 10

Standing beside an open grave in Bendigo cemetery on 10th July last, Archdeacon MacCullagh said:—"The man whose body we are burying to-day would in the…

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Heroic Miners

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 2

Two men attempting to rescue four miners entombed by an explosion in Wales were killed by fire damp…

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