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Mining & the mines, 1923

581 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 30

State Parliament. Safety in Mines. Government Defeated in Committee. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 October 1923 · page 2

The Minister for Mines, Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, informed Dr. Stopford in the legislative Assembly to-night that the whole matter of appointing a…

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Coal in New Zealand a Rich Seam Wellington (N.z.), October 4

The Daily Express · Friday 5 October 1923 · page 1

At Taylorville, about 7 miles from Greymouth, a valuable coal seam was discovered yesterday. It was struck at a depth of [?] feet and [?]…

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Miners Rescued Entombed 14 Days. Cheered by the Sound of the Rescue work. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 October 1923 · page 1

The rescue party at the Redding Mine, where the disaster occurred on September 25, as the result of ten days' toil, met with some…

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Dragged From Death Miners Rescued After Nine Days' Entombment Stirring Story of Redding Colliery Disaster Relief Parties' Persistent Work Brings Unexpected Results

The Daily Express · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 1

Ten days unremitting toll resulted in the rescue of are men from the Redding Colliery, at Falkirk, Scotland, where a sudden inrush of water…

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Fuel Value Distillation Process Getting More Out of Coal New York, October 4

The Daily Express · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 2

It is reported from Detroit that Australians are taking great interest in a plant for the distillation of coal which Henry Ford Is [?]llding…

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Hoping Against Hope Reading Colliery Disaster London, October 8

The Daily Express · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 1

Four divers have arrived at Redding and they propose to descend the colliery shaft in which there is 90ft. of water, in order to carry food and…

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Trouble Brewing Northern Miners Again Newcastle

The Daily Express · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 2

Trouble is brewing on the coalfields owing to the closing down of the West Wallsend Gallery for which the miners say there is no…

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Entombed Miners. Divers Engaged to Take Them Food. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1923 · page 2

Four drivers have come to Redding in Forfarshire, where a number of miners are entombed, for the purpose of descending into 90 feet of water…

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Coal Delivery to Resume

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1923 · page 2

Messages from Dusseldorf stale that aa agreement has been reached between the Allies' Mines Commission and the Phoenix and Rhenische Stathwerke…

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Redding Mine Persistent Rescuers Fighting Against Water London, October 9

The Daily Express · Wednesday 10 October 1923 · page 1

Divers operating in Redding colMery, carried meat extract and other portable Foods In watertight cases, and were supplied with powerful…

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The Gold Crown

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 5

Did you ever wonder why people sometimes shout "Eureka!" when they are excited about some discovery? This is the story:…

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Miners’ “Darg” West Wallsend Case Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 1

The decision arrived at by the conference of the Northern Miners’ Lodges at Newcastle, yesterday, regarding the closing of West Mallsend…

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Entombed Miners. Rescue Efforts Fail. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 2

The naval divers from Rosyth fruit-lessley again attempted yesterday to penetrate the Redding mine workings and they were brought up exhausted…

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In a Diamond Mine “Largest Home in the World.”

The Daily Express · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 2

The most interesting diamond mice is not at Kimberley, but near Pretoria—the Premier Mine, “the largest hole in the world.” The great open…

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Railway Thrill Runaway Coal Trucks Race with Mail Train- Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 12 October 1923 · page 1

Part of a coal train which passed the Gien Innes mail near Fassifern, between Sydney and Newcastle, yesterday, broke away and ran back…

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Bribbaree Gold Mining

The Daily Express · Saturday 13 October 1923 · page 4

There was recently received at Young a parcel of gold, representing a crushing of 16 tons of ore from the Golden Lamb claim at Bribbaree…

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In a Diamond Mine. "Largest Hole in the World."

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 October 1923 · page 4

The most interesting diamond mine is not at Kimberley, but near Pretoria—the Premier Mine, "the largest hole in the world." The great open…

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On the Bri[?] Miners Escape [?] Whole Shift Endange[?] Newcastle, [?]

The Daily Express · Tuesday 16 October 1923 · page 1

Six hundred miners at [?] No. 1 Colliery escaped [?] narrow margin to-day. At 6.55 a:m. the shift had [?]…

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After Many Years Coal Mine Re-opened Newcastle

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 October 1923 · page 1

The Great Greta Colliery was worked yesterday, far the first time in 23 stage and y[?]e[?]ed 35 tracks of coal…

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Mudgee District Gold Find. 20ozs. to the Ton. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 October 1923 · page 1

Samples of stone taken from the newly discovered reef at Lue, in the Mudgee district, have yielded 20 ozs, of gold to the ton…

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