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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 9

Mr. G. H. Buckland has been balloted secretary of the Wrightville A.M.A., N.S.W. Furnaces are being erected and teams…

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Bringing Gold to the Bank

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 3

The precautions which are taken to guard gold dispatched from the mines of Australia, America, or South Africa, to the Bank of England—which for years…

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Bangadang Gold Find. the First Crushing. £24 a Man in a Fortnight

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 16 September 1910 · page 2

It is now three weeks since prospectors Michael and William O'Dwyer (brothers) struck the outcrop of a reef in Mr. William Crain's property…

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Labor Troubles. Miners Decide on a Strike. London, September 19

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

Regardless of the decision of the conference at Cardiff to take a ballot, 12,000 men employed in the Cambrian combine's mines have decided to strike…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 9

Tanami looks up again. The goldfields warden has reported the discovery of a rich patch of stone in a large lode body 45ft. from the surface in a shaft sunk…

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Victoria. Coal Miners' Wages Board. Resolution Before Parliament

The Worker · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 9

A resolution providing for the appointment of a wages board for coal miners was agreed to by the Legislative Assembly last week. In moving the resolution…

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Miners' Political Levy. Attempt to Stir up Trouble Fails

The Worker · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 9

The threatened strike of Daylesford, V., miners to enforce recognition of Unionist employment in the Daylesford mines was averted by President Gibney and General…

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Rosehill Spring Meeting. Electric Wire Wins the Guineas. Bumper Attendance—Malt King Beaten.—Gold Lace's Reversal of Form.—Safrano and Call Boy Show Good Form

The Worker · Thursday 22 September 1910 · page 17

Never was there a larger crowd at Rosehill than that which gathered there on Saturday. The ladies mustered up royally, and the proceeds of their…

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Mining Notes

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 2

Mining under the basalt at Laurel Hill, situated about 28 miles above Adelong has become famous at different periods for its rich runs of gold under…

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Dignity of Meadows Cloth of Gold

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 2

Tho thirty-acre piece ta one sheet of brilliant gold-rolling over the bank where the lone ash tree stands, solidifying Into orange on the top of the…

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Illustrated Notes from all over the World the Art of Submarine Mining

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1910 · page 7

The cult of the submarine mine has advanced with great rapidity in recent years, albeit it has a longer history than most people are apt to suppose…

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Robbery at Albury. £300 Worth of Gold and Diamonds

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1910 · page 6

A robbery of jewellery took place at the store of the Co-operative Furnishing Company, Dean-street, Albury. The firm in question had a large…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 29 September 1910 · page 9

At West Wyalong, Guy and party got a rich return from their Welcome Stranger Mine, 27 tons yielding 231oz. gold. Eleven and a-half tons averaged…

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Perils of the Mines

The Worker · Thursday 29 September 1910 · page 19

At the Stanford Merthyr colliery on Monday, David Watson and his mate. Dick Evans, were working in tops, when a fall of stone occurred, burying Evans…

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Oil or Coal?

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1910 · page 7

"The main economic and transport problems of a crude oil supply for liquid-fuel purposes in war vessels are to-day attracting the serious…

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Miners Entombed

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 2

One hundred and fifty minors have been entombed in Mexico as the result of an explosion of gas…

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Labor and Capital. Wales Coal Fight. Thirty Thousand to Strike. London, October 1

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1910 · page 2

Shortly there will he 30,000 men on strike from the South Wales collieries; Eight thousand colliers struck work yesterday, notices from 12,390 to…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 9

The Zinc Corporation has been quietly constructing additional plant at the Broken Hill works, which will be completed by the end of the month…

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Small Coal. How Miners Are Robbed

The Worker · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 6

Some British statesmen once urged that a Ministerial colleague should set the eloquent Gladstone to explain away the character of a lady or doubtful…

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The Price of Gold

The Worker · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 15

Listen! I tell the story of the gold. "Three years to mine and three years' to die!" That is a folk word…

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