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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Fall of Earth Miners Entombed Rescue After Six Hours Melbourne

The Daily Express · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 1

By a fail of earth in Langi Logan mine, Ararat, last night, three miners—John Barrett, Fred and Ronald Battys—were completely…

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Township in Uproar. Battle for Gold Mine

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 6
Also in Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post

A mining town in South America was the scene of a battle for a gold mine which had been in the hands of an impostor The whole town…

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Victorian Brown Coal German Scientist's Enthusiasm Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 November 1925 · page 8

Herr Emil Ganditz. a German scientist is enthusiastic regarding the Yallourn brown coal deposits. He has been brought to Australia by the…

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Entombed Miners One Rescued After 80 Hours. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 November 1925 · page 2

A fall of earth at the Wathmain Colliery in South Yorkshire on Tuesday evening, entombed two miners, Poole and Flinders. Rescue parties…

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City Council Coal Mines

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 December 1925 · page 3

The Electricity Committee at a meeting, to-day, decided to recommend the City Council to call for offers of coal mines up to January 11. Experts…

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Gold on Farm Land a Prospector's Claim. Warden's Ruling

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 December 1925 · page 8

A prospector named James Funnell applied recently for authority to enter for milling purposes portion of the property known as Hillview,…

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Colliery Explosion Five Men Killed (Reuter Service) LONDON, December 2

The Daily Express · Friday 4 December 1925 · page 1

[?]ive were killed and 12 seriously [?]red in an explosion in the pit [?]Lthringen mine. Thirty other men were entombed…

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Extremists British Coal Trade an Employer’s Outburst London, December 2

The Daily Express · Friday 4 December 1925 · page 2

At the Coal Commission to-day Mr. C. P. Markham, Managing Director of colleries which are raising 10,000,000 tony of coal a year, made an out…

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Carcoar Iron Mine Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 1

Mr. Ken Hoad to-day asked the Minister. for Milles what prospects there were for a settlement of the dispute at Carco[?]t Iron Mine…

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Miners Entombed. Fire Underground Rescuer Loses Life Denver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 December 1925 · page 2

Although the fire, which prevented operations to rescue between 25 and 45 miners enrombed in a gold, silver and lead mine, near Nederland, Colorado,…

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Aerial Holiday Flight to Broken Kill Our Scribe's Impressions No. 5. Broken Hill Mines

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 8 December 1925 · page 2

On the Barrier Reef several big companies hold leases—Broken Hill South Ltd., Broken Hill North Ltd., Broken Hill British Co., Ltd., Broken…

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British Coal Trade What the Subsidy Costs (Reuter Service) LONDON, December 7

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 December 1925 · page 1

That the coal subsidy cost the £19,000,000 was revealed by the supplementary estimates, showing that the original estimate o[?]…

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Forgot Their Mines Missing Fortunes Knock

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 10 December 1925 · page 5

The dreams of the gold miners have not been confirmed—the supposed wonderful find on Messrs T. Franklin and O. Bell's properties, along…

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Rand Mines Held Up CAPETOWN

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 December 1925 · page 2

A big explosion occurred at the Victoria Falls power station at Vereeniging No casualities have been announced. The miners of the central area of…

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"There's Gold in the Mountain." Long Tunnel As a Wage Payer '

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 10 December 1925 · page 1

At Gundagai Wardens' Court on Monday, before Mr. Harrison, P.M., an application was made for a six months' suspension of labor…

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Gas Explosion in Mine Alabama

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 1

An unofficial report is received that three men were killed and twelve injured as the result of a gas explosion in a coal mine…

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British Migrants Ramsay Macdonald's Views "Export You Like Coal" London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 2

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Aberavon with reference to overseas settlement said: "They want to export you like coal." It was proposed,…

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Coal Found at Dubbo

The Daily Express · Saturday 12 December 1925 · page 8

The N.S.W. Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) has received a report from Mrs. L. J. Jones, geological surveyor, about a discovery of…

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Mine Disaster Explosion of Gas Vancouver, December 10

The Daily Express · Saturday 12 December 1925 · page 1

A report from Birmingham (Alabama) states that on Thursday afternoon three men were killed, 12 injured, and an unestimatable number…

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