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Mining & the mines, 1911

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Woman Heads Strike. Miners' Store Incident. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1911 · page 2

A strike of a novel character is reported from the South Coast. The miners have a co-operative store at Bulli, of which the miners' general…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 13 April 1911 · page 23

At the William Tell mine, Daylesford, [?] highly payable gold was reported last week to have been struck in the south drive, at the bottom level…

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Miners' Strike Imminent

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1911 · page 2

A general stoppage of work in the South Wales coalfields is believed to be imminent…

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Lady Clair Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 5

At the Lady Clair mine, Donkey Hill, some very good stone is being raised. The ore is of a very showy nature, great flakes of gold being…

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When Gold Will Be Dirt

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 3

Thomas A. Edison in an interview, makes some remarkable predictions of new inventions that will be given to the world before the end of the…

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Mining Matters. the Gibraltar

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 5

THE Gibraltar Company's mine, which produced such excellent results in 1908 and has since been undergoing a very extensive system…

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Illegal Combine. Important Action Commenced. Prosecution of the Coal Vend. Mr. B. R. Wise Opens. Shipping Companies Also Indicted. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 2

A great array of legal talent gathere at the High Court to-day, when the prosecution of what is popularly known as the coal vend, was…

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Coal Vend Prosecutions

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 3

The Coal vend prosecutions were Continued this morning, Judge Isaacs foregoing the usual court holidays to facilitate the passage of the…

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Muttama Mining

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 3

The syndicates who have taken up the old Muttama (or South Australian Company's) mine, the Eureka, and the Excelsior reefs have made fairly rich…

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Gundagai Goldfield. Further Great Yields. Ounces to Half a Dish. Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

Another rich gold find has been made in the Long runnel Mine, at Gundagai. Ralf a dish of stone yielded 27 ounces. A clean up of 43 tons of second grade…

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Balmain Colliery Trouble. Acting Premier to Take Action. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 2

It is understood that Mr. Holman, the Acting Premier, intends to take a hand in connection with the trouble at the Balmain colliery. A proposal…

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Baths Objected To. British Miners' Protest. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 4

Meetings of miners held at Lothian and Durham carried resolutions protesting against the clause in the new Mines Bill, which makes washing at…

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Grim Tragedy. Drowned by Rising Water. Miners' Terrible Situation Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 2

Two miners working in a hole at Hound Hill, South-Land, were pinned down by a fall of sludge. Before they were found the gradually rising…

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The Coal Vend. Prosecution Under the Antitrust Act. Case for the Crown. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 3

The large array of barristers engaged in the action commenced by the Commonwealth Attorney General against the Northern Colliery…

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The Grown and the Coal Vend. Astounding Allegations Before the High Court. Crown Alleges Prices Were Raised, Competitors Frozen Out, Newspaper Space Purchased, Parliament Improperly Influenced. Mr. Wise Speaks Three Days in Opening Case

The Worker · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 14

The prosecution of the Coal Vend by the Commonwealth Government was begun before Judge Isaacs, sitting in the High Court at Darlinghurst, on April 13…

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Mine on Fire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 2

A fire, caused by an electric cable fusing, occurred in the Tinkton colliery, Derbyshire. Four i hundred miners at work were rescued, many…

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Mining

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 2

At the Lady Clare mine, Donkey Hill, development operations are in steady progress. A crushing is on the surface, and will shortly be milled at…

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Fire in a Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 5

A fire caused by an electric cable fusing, occurred in the Tinkton colliery, Derbyshire, where 400 miners were at work. All were…

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Mining Disaster. Two Men Killed. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 2

A fall of earth occurred in the Victorian Proprietary mine, Bendigo, to-day, when two men were killed, one seriously and several slightly injured…

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A Trip to Murrell Greek Goldfield

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 6

A lovely autumn morning the sun shining brightly, a gentle breeze blowing —just enough to cause a “sighing…

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