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Mining & the mines, 1910

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Mining Fatality and Alleged Perjury

The Worker · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 19

An inquest was held on Thursday on the body of William Pollock, who on the previous day had been killed by a fall of stone in the Hebburn colliery, Kurri Kurri…

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Lest We Forget. Perpetrated During the Coal Strike and Since

The Worker · Thursday 6 October 1910 · page 6

There are some matters in connection with the late coal strike which can never be forgotten; to the eternal humiliation of N.S.W. in the eyes of the world the…

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Mining Revival

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 October 1910 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon the new ten-head battery and plant were set agoing by the Mayor at the Democrat, on Land grove, erected by the spirited…

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Rich Gold Find

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 2

The discovery of gold in Bullfinch (W.A.) is stated on expert authority to be the richest surface show ever found in that State…

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Mining Explosion. One Hundred Men Entombed Vancouver, Oct. 9

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1910 · page 2

The Starkville coal mine at Tr[?] (Colorado, U.S.A.) has been the scene of a disastrous explosion. It is reported that 100 men are entombed. VANCOUVER, Oct. 10…

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A Point for Miners

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 12 October 1910 · page 2

What Wood (whose Ministry Donaldson has supported through thick and thin) has do[?]for the miner: By the Amended Mining Act he has wiped…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 13 October 1910 · page 9

Twenty-two tons of Welcome Stranger, West Wyalong, stone, recently treated at Cockle Creek works, gave an average of 15½oz…

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Coal Miners' Wages Boards. Provision Fod State Employees

The Worker · Thursday 13 October 1910 · page 9

A bill to provide for the representation of the State on the Coal Miners' Wages Board passed the Victorian Legislative Assembly last week. Under the…

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Coal-vend Prosecutions. a Capitalistic Canard

The Worker · Thursday 13 October 1910 · page 18

During the past week a yarn in which the wish was obviously father to the thought, has been circulated by the capitalistic press of Sydney. This was to the…

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Victimised! Miners' Representative on Wages Boards Dismissed. Another Glaring Defect of the Industrial Disputes Act Exposed

The Worker · Thursday 13 October 1910 · page 14

At case which came before the Industrial Court last week showed how ready some employers are to seize hold of a pretext to get rid, when they can, of men who…

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Mining Notes

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 14 October 1910 · page 2

The manager of the Adelong Syndicate, at Laurel Hill, reports, that by all appearances he has again picked up the rich trend of gold which was…

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Socialism in Victoria Gvernment Control of Extort Trade. State Coal Mine Shows Big Profit. New Land and Income Taxation. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1910 · page 6

The Treasurer (Mr. Watt), looking very ill, delivered his budget speech to-day. He estimated the revenue for the…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 18 October 1910 · page 2

At the Gibraltar Consolidated, in on Perkins' shaft the reef at the 264ft. level is looking well. Last month it waa only an indicator. This reef is…

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Mining. the Bangadang Goldfield

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 2

Quite a stir has taken place on this newly-discovered field, which O'Dwyer Bros have opened up. Workman and party are applying for…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 20 October 1910 · page 9

At Mount Doran, near Lal Lal, V. prospecting parties are still actively at work in the alluvial tunnels, and prospects are reported to be good. In the ranges…

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Victoria. Legislative Wreckers Coal Miners' Wages Board. Property House Rejection

The Worker · Thursday 20 October 1910 · page 9

"Thank God we have an Upper House," Was the fervent exclamation of a Tory of the Legislative Assembly some years ago when a bill which proposed to…

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Effect of Weather on Coal

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 7

Engineering describes experiments with car loads of American coal under conditions comparable with actual experience in the storage of coal…

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The Bangadang Goldfield

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 2

Quite a stir has taken place on this newly-discovered field, which O'Dwyer Bros have opened up. Workman and party are applying…

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Southern Cross Gold Rush. Phenomenal Yields

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1910 · page 2

Reports re Southern Cross (W.A.) indicate that what has already been claimed for the field is an under-estimate of its possibilities…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 27 October 1910 · page 9

Sherwin and Stewart, prospecting at Rushworth, V., recently put through a crushing of 16 tons of quartz, and obtained the high yield of 60 oz. gold, the…

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