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Mining & the mines, 1913

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Mexico Mine Disaster 250 Still Missing. Dawson New Mexico

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 October 1913 · page 5

There were fourteen dead received from the mine, and twenty five rescued alive. The fate of the others is still…

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Tee Lambton Colliery Work Resumed After 9 Months. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 28 October 1913 · page 2

Lambton Colliery, which has through the strike only worked one week during the last nine months. resumed work this morning. The cause of the last…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 16

Lambton B. colliery, Newcastle, N.S.W., tied up for nine months owing to a dispute over a deficient place, has been re-oponed. The miners decided to pay out of their…

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Illawarra Items. Coal Dust in Mines

The Worker · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 14

There has been a good deal of discussion among the South Coast miners during the past week over the danger of allowing coal dust to accumulate in the mines…

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Explosions in Coal Mines. N.S.W. Minister for Mines Takes Action. Committee of Investigation Appointed

The Worker · Thursday 30 October 1913 · page 17

It was mentioned in THE WORKER last week that the report of the Royal Commission on Mines and Miners which had been issued in London stated that the stone…

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Apology by Gladstone. Message to Rand Mine-owners. Mistake in Official Despatch

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 4

Lord Gladstone, the Governor-General of South Africa, has taken an unprecedented step in withdrawing a statement made by him in an official despatch to Mr…

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American Mines Strike Trinidad (Colorado)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 November 1913 · page 5

A recurrence of the strike trouble has occurred, despite the presence of the military. A bomb was thrown into the camp near Saint Thomas mine, and…

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Miners Resume. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

The strike at the Seaham No. I colliery ended this morning, when the miners resumed work…

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The Gold Fever

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 4

Few who have heard or read of the time when the gold fever raged in Victoria, and infected the rest of the world, realise the amount of wealth it has been…

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"Oildag." Remarkable Inventor. "Lusricating the World." Saving of Oil, Coal, and Power

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

There is now residing in London one of those great natural scientific sciences who are born and not made—Dr. Edward G. A[?]eson. He is of the type of Edison, and…

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"Oildag." Remarkable Inventor. "Lubricating the World." Saving of Oil, Coal, and Power

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 3

There is now residing in London one of those great natural scientific geniuses who are born and not made—Dr. Edward G. Acheson. He is of the type of Edison, and…

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Mining Disaster. St. Petersburg

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 November 1913 · page 2

A fall of earth at the Artvin Copper Mines killed six men and injured 28…

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Special Cable News. Gold Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

A number of gold ingots, to the value of £200,000, consigned by the Ottoman Bank, Constantinople, to its Parish branch, via Berlin and Cologne…

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Short-lived Truce. Denver Miners Resume Riots Denver (Colorado)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

The strike war has been resumed. Fights, assaults and dynamiting are frequent occurrences. Five non-unionists have been killed and four railway…

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Gold Ingots Stolen LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

A number of gold ingots, valued at £200,000, was recently consigned from Constantinople to Paris. On arrival at the latter city it was…

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Mining Fatality SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

The collapse some staging at the Golden Horseshoe mine,kalgoor1ie, precipitated two Austrians. down a shute 50 feet deep. One man was…

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Rumored Gold Discovery 30 Ounces to the Ton. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

A rumor was circulated to-day that a gold-hearing reef been discovered on one of the northern bases of the Mount Oxide copper mine, and…

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The Welsh Disaster 300 Bodies Recovered. How the Miners Faced Death. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

Three hundred bodies have now been recovered from the Senghenydd Colliery. The exploring parties have concluded their search and found…

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Mining Disaster 30 Men Entombed. ACTON(Alabama).Wednesday

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1913 · page 2

An explosion entombed 30 mimers in No.2 mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company. Six dead bodies have been recovered. Three miners…

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Wantiool Gold Mine. (To The Editor "Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 4

Sir, —In reference to the report in your Junee news re the closing down of the Precedor Gold-mining Syndicate of Wamiool, I give that a…

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