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Mining & the mines, 1913

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The Panama Canal. Will It Kill the Australian Coal Export Trade? a Bad Outlook for Newcastle

The Worker · Thursday 6 March 1913 · page 24

Mr. Niel Nielsen has made an alarming report on the possibility of the Australian coal export trade being seriously crippled by the opening of the Panama Canal…

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Germany s Tower of Gold

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1913 · page 1

Even the modern burglar with his osy-ac[?]tyiene gas would find some difficulty in getting at the France-berman war indemnity stored up in the…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 17

The manager of the Goldsworth mine, Uralla, N.S.W., has been authorised by the directors to erect a battery on the mine, from which rich stone is being secured…

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Miners' Conference. Men and Owners at Newcastle

The Worker · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 14

Representatives of the Newcastle miners and the mine owners wove to go into conference again on Wednesday, March 12. When the conference…

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General Gables. German Gold Famine. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 2

The heavy selling of foreign stocks in Berlin in order to relieve the German gold famine, is reacting unfavorably on the London Stock Exchange…

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Surveyor's Creek Mine

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 2

Mr G. T. Heine[?]ke informs on that the recently received a wire to go at [?] to the new [?] in Victoria [?] to Mr Barlow, and some 40…

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Ardlethan. White Crystal Mine

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 6

"White Crystal Mine," Why that name? Because of [?] white crystal found in the holes being worked. The scene of operations is picturesque and…

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Mining Disaster. Fall of Earth. Three Men Killed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 4

Three miners, named Wallace, Kett and Rice, while working in the North Mine, Broken Hill, met their deaths this morning in a sensational manner…

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Blown to Pieces. Man Killed in Mining Explosion. Youth Seriously Injured. West Wyalong

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1913 · page 4

At midday to-day an explosion occurred at the Trim Blue mine, resulting in miner, Edward Hoskins, being literally blown to pieces, and a youth…

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Mining Accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1913 · page 2

The fusing of an electric wire ignited the timbering in a diamond mine in South Africa. Four natives were suffocated…

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Miners' Entombed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 2

An inrush of water entombed two men in the Town Head mine, England. They are still alive, and are being fed through a borchole…

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Strike at Bulli. Many Miners Idle. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 3

A strike has occurred at the South[?] mine owing to the discharge of [?] miners for which they cavilled…

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Latest Cable News. Water in a Mine. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 3

A rush of water bas entombed two men in the Townhead mine in Cumberland. They are being fed through a borehole. The water has risen to…

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Miners' Strike at South Bulli. Outspoken Remarks by Minister of Labor

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 2

A strike occurred at South Bulli, consequent on the discharge of two miners over working in a place at which they cavilled. An application…

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Still Mine

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 7

A well-known and respected judge was always noted for his gentle manner with prisoners. On one occasion he was dealing with a…

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The World's Production of Gold

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 3

Anterior to the discovery of America, the existing stock of gold and silver money in the world is estimated by William Jacob, and…

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Industrial Disputes. the Colliery Trouble "Sure to Extend to the North." Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 2

Many of the oldest miners in the Newcastle district state that the trouble in the south is tolerably certain to soon extend to the north. They…

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Mines and Miners

The Worker · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 23

Frederick Neeld, junr., 45, a member of the family which first discovered gold on the Wyalong field, N.S.W., suicided with a gun last Friday, at a farm on the…

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Industrial Disputes. the Coal Strike. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 2

At a meeting of miners at Wollongong this afternoon, a resolution was carried that there should be no resumption of work until the…

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South Coast Miners. the Strike Unpopular. But Struggle to Be Prolonged. No Resumption Till Re-in-statement. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 2

Indications are not wanting that the South Coast coal strike is unpopular among the strikers themselves, though it is not considered likely that to-day's…

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