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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

456 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 23

Armed Yacht and Mine Sweeper. Miked in the Mediterranean

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 May 1916 · page 2

It is officially announced that the armed yacht Aegus and the mine-sweeper Nasturium were mined and sunk in the Mediterranean. thirteen of the…

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The Heinecke Mining Case. the Defence

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 5 May 1916 · page 2

George Thomas Heinecke, defendant: I am the owner of the mining tenements in the summons. I paid £8000 for them. I purchased about…

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German Mine-sweepers. Sunk Off Danish Coast. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1916 · page 4

A Danish newspaper is responsible for the statement that in October last eight German mine-sweepers, under the auxiliary cruiser "Kaiser,"…

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Miners Threat. Strike for a Day

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 3

The Amalgamated Miners' Association at a meeting decided in the event of the inauguration of conscription, to call upon all workers to down tools for…

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The War The Latest Monday Afternoon. Germans Buy Swedish Copper Mine

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1916 · page 2

It is reported that a German Coy has bought the King Carl Copper mine at Jonkonpig, Sweden. AMERICA AND GERMANY…

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Carrying Gold at Sea

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 11 May 1916 · page 4

The specie locker of an ocean steamer is a carefully constructed vault, and is located in the stern, immediately over the screw. It has the shape of a half…

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British Line. Further Mining Activity

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1916 · page 2

Sir Douglas Haig reports: There has been mining activity between Neuville St. Vaast and Souchez, and north-east of Armentieres, but it has not affected…

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Mining and Artillery Duels. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 2

Sir Douglas Haig reports mining at Fricourt, Souchez, Hullucin, and Cuenchy, but no change in the mutual artillery activity at Souchez, Pieplin, and…

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German Woman's False Passport. Came to Great Britain with American. Tale of Tungsten Mine. Prison and Deportation for Both

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 7

An American who declared that he bad been to Germany to obtain an option on a tungsten mine, which wad afterwards to be used for the benefit of this country in the…

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Conscription. British Miners Oppose. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1916 · page 4

The British Minors' Federation, by 583,000 to 135,000 carried n resolution in opposition to conscription…

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Industrial Unrest. Hill End Strike Ends. Marshall's Mines Excepted. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 May 1916 · page 4

After a strike lasting ten weeks the non-union trouble at Hill End has reached finality in all the mines except those belonging to Marshall Bros…

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Warden's Court. Snowball Copper Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 2

ON the 14th February, 1916, Mr. L. S. Clayton, secretary of the Grahamstown Progress Association, reported the lease held by the…

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Germans and Gold. Poured Into Ireland

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 May 1916 · page 2

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, in a newspaper article on the Irish Rebellion, says:— "Thousands of youths were brought into the rising under false pretences…

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Snowball Copper Mine

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 2

On the 14th February, 1916, Mr. L. S. Clayton, secretary of the Grahamstown Progress Association, reported the lease held by the…

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Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 2

Some splendid copper lodes have lately been discovered in our district, and the price that metal is now valued at, somewhere about…

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German Mine—layer Gone

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1916 · page 5

A German mine—laver has been blown up at Faisterbo by one of her own mines. One of the crew was killed, and a portion of the…

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See the Gold. Lo and behold the Gold

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 4

Yea, what a tremendous quantity of it there is .And how and glittering and attractive. And what a delightful specific gravity at last . When is the Gold cuting…

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Gold Carriers. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 3

Two Chinese passengers by the steamer Empire were remanded at the police court to-day on a charge of having in their possession amounts in…

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Struck a Mine. British Submarine's Escape. Crew Behaved Splendidly. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1916 · page 2

A thrilling story is published of the narrow escape of a British submarine from total destruction by the explosion of a mine. The submarine had been on…

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Enemy Coal Ship Torpedoed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 May 1916 · page 2

A British steamer torpedoed a German steamer coal laden from Lubeck to Norway, at the entrance to the Sound. The crew was saved…

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