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Mining & the mines, 1908

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Mount Adrah News. the Mining Outlook

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 2

THE reefs on Dennis' estate are still showing gold. W. Bell has a parcel of 12 tons a waiting carriage to Ritchie's Reefer battery, Adelong…

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Mining Disaster. Bodies Recovered. Victims Died Peacefully. London, March 13

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 2

Bodies which hove been recovered from the Hamstead pit, Birmingham, where an explosion occurred last week, had their faces to the ground. The…

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Snowball Copper Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 2

IT mast have been a great disappointment to the directors of the Snowball Copper-mining Company, after unwatering an old abandoned mine…

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The Coal Bill

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners have accepted orders for the supply of 500,000 tons of coal, and it is considered that the contract moans an…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 11

Interest has revived in the King's Bluff gold mine, Broken Hill. A decided reef, carrying free gold, is reported to be showing…

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Gold Miners' Dispute

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 11

At Wyalong, N.S.W., some 200 miners employed on the Golden Fleece, Junction, Homeward Bound, Shamrock, and Neeld's mines recently ceased work as a protest…

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Ventilation of Mines. Victorian Policy

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 10

A definite statement has at length been forced from the Victorian Minister of Mines (Mr. M'Lcod) as to what has been done, and what is contemplated, by the…

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Moyer Released. Western Miners' Triumph Complete

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 23

The long chapter of events in the Idaho conspiracy case (the mine-owners and authorities being the real conspirators) has come to a fitting close. Haywood and…

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Coal for New Sooth Wales Railways

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 5

The railways of New South Wales use up about 10,000 tons of coal per week, or 500,000 tons per annum. Contracts are spread over a number of collieries, so that…

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Gold Storage Employees. Award of the Court

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 18

New South Wales Arbitration Court last week delivered its award in the dispute between the Cold Storage Employees' Union and the Pastoral Finance Association…

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Victorian Miners in Conference. the Work of the Officers. Second Day—thursday, Feb. 27

The Worker · Thursday 19 March 1908 · page 23

The discussion on the question of ventilation, referred to in the annual report, was continued. Mr. Butcher (Zeehan) was fully conscious…

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Snowball Copper Mine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 2

It must have been a great dissappoinment to the directors of the Snowball Copper mining Company, after unwatering an old abandoned mine…

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Yarrangobilly Copper Mine

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 20 March 1908 · page 2

MR RICHARD McKAY, the secretary of the Yarrangobilly Copper Mining Co., has just returned to Tumut, from a visit to the mine, and reports very…

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Coal Crisis Judge Heydon Beaten. an Intolerable Position. Special Court Breaks Down. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1908 · page 2

When the Special Mining Court resumed at Newcastle this morning Judge Heydon said the Miners' Federation either could not or would not…

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Coal Mining Dispute. Action by Miners' Federation. Important Resolutions Passed

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1908 · page 2

An important meeting of the committee of management of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held on Saturday at Newcastle under the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 26 March 1908 · page 22

Copper mines on Orange Plains, N.S.W., are opening up well. The Tottenham leases have been granted a two months' suspension…

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Colliery Dispute

The Worker · Thursday 26 March 1908 · page 12

On March 16 a dispute arose at the South Bulli colliery, N.S.W. south coast. The manager informed the men who had cavilled for machine places that he would not…

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Back Water in Creswick Mines

The Worker · Thursday 26 March 1908 · page 22

A serious situation has occurred at the West Berry Consols mine, Creswick district, where, fearing that their lives were in jeopardy, the men last Saturday refused to…

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The Airly Dispute. Mine Worked by a Few Blacklegs

The Worker · Thursday 26 March 1908 · page 21

On Wednesday of Just week, T. Martin, of Hartley Vale, who has secured the contract of working the Airly shale [?] on tribute, made a sort of commencement with a…

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Newcastle Coal Troubles Break-up of Court Threatened

The Worker · Thursday 26 March 1908 · page 29

Fresh disputes laid four mines idle last week. On Tuesday, March 17, the wheelers at Burwood colliery ceased work as a protest against the dismissal of one of their…

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