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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Rich Gold in Papua

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 2

A rich gold discovery is reported from Papua. One miner secured 609 oz[?] from a crushing of 25 tons of ore…

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The Coal Vend. Mr. Edden on Its Value. Disaster Would Follow Its Dissolution. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 2

The Minister for Mines has noticed that the question of doing away with the vend has recently been discussed by colliery proprietors in the…

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First Steamer to India. Only 35 Tons of Coal Taken for a Voyage Which Took 114 Days

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 1 March 1911 · page 6

When was the first steam voyage-from England to Calcutta. accomplished? This cannot he answered with any degree of certainty, for…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 2 March 1911 · page 23

According to latest estimates there is five years' work in sight on the Great Boulder Proprietary, Kalgoorlie. Working hands on Mount David, N.S.W.,…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 March 1911 · page 2

O'Dwyer Bros, the original prospectors of Bangadang, are doing splendidly. The walls glisten with mineral, which comes from the stone they are operating upon. The ore…

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The Coal Vend Benefactors

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1911 · page 2

It is, in a sense, almost refreshing to have a Labor Minister defending a trade combine other than unionism. Just now America is, it is cabled,…

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Industrial Peace. Mine-owners' Offer. Men Not Favorable. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1911 · page 2

Mr. John Brown, colliery owner, offers to allow the miners employed in the Pelaw Main Colliery to continue working under the present rates…

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Buried by Coal. AUCKLAND

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 March 1911 · page 2

By a fall of coal in tho State Colliery at Auckland, a man named White was completely buried. The body was eventually recovered…

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American Coal Supplied

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1911 · page 2

Owing to the colliery troubles in South Wales, Americans are exporting 350,000 tons of coal to Havre (France), and Italy, whence the…

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Victorian and Tasmanian Miners' Conference

The Worker · Thursday 9 March 1911 · page 6

The nineteenth annual conference of the Amalgamated Mining Employees of Victoria and Tasmania was opened in Queenstown on February 28, eleven years…

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Eleven Tons of Gold. Federal Treasury Reserve Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1911 · page 2

The gold reserve at the Federal Treasury weighs 11 tons, valued at one million four hundred and fifty-one thousand pounds…

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Welsh Miners' Strike. Families on Verge of Starvation. Union Funds Dwindling. London, March 8

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 March 1911 · page 2

The London "Daily Express" reports that hundreds of the families of the 12,000 miners striking in Mid Rhondda, Wales, arc on the verge of…

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Waroen's Court. (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M., Mining Warden.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1911 · page 4

Percy A. Harris, applied for a suspension of labor conditions in respect to his mining lease, parish of Boblegigble…

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Coal Disputes. a Permanent Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 4

Mr. Kearsley, M.L.A., has placed before the Minister for labor a proposal for the establishment of a permanent court for the settlement of…

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Mining Camps Buried. Avalanches in Nevada. Over 20 Killed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 4

Avalanches destroyed mining camps at Lundy, Mono, and Jordan, Nevada, U.S.A. Over twenty people are dead. Rescue parties are s[?]wshoeing to…

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State Coal Mine. Matter for Cabinet to Deal With. Rebuff for Minister for Mines. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 March 1911 · page 2

The Cabinet have decided that the question of establishing a State coal mine should be dealt with only by the Cabinet as a whole and not by the…

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Pelaw Main Mine Fatality. Fourth in Six Weeks. System That Should Be Discontinued. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 March 1911 · page 2

Alex. Wilson, a miner, was killed at the Pelaw Main Colliery yesterday, by a fall of coal, making the fourth fatality of a similar character…

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Sensational Gold Find. The Long Tunnel Mine. Rich Return

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1911 · page 2

From time to time a number of good finds have been Reported in the Long Tunnel mine, Kimo, and the subsequent confirmation of these…

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Big Gold Discovery. at Long Tunnel Mine. 100Oz. From 1Cwt. Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 March 1911 · page 2

Great excitement prevailed in the town to-night when the shareholders of the Long Tunnel mine obtained 100oz. of gold as the result of dollying…

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Mining

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 14 March 1911 · page 2

Stream tin of the highest quality, in fact ruby tin, exists la quantities on Bruce's Terraces, Germanton district, and a powerful Victorian…

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