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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Dividing It Up. Australia's Gold

Southern Star · Wednesday 20 February 1907 · page 4

THE shipment of gold from our country should interest Australians. The total shipments to date amount to £500,000,000, tod this is the…

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Queensland-Utopia Gold-Mining Company

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 22 February 1907 · page 2

FOLLWING is a copy of Mr. C. A. Harper's report on Mt Utepia to the directors of the Company:—GENTLEMEN,—In accordance with your…

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Illegally in a Mine. Three Months Imprisonment

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 7 March 1907 · page 4

The charge against James Barry, of having been found by night without awful excuse in the North Woah Hawp mine, Ballarat East, was heard…

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New Gold Find

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 4

Two Nowra men, prospecting on the Shoalhaven River, some fifteen miles above Burrier, washed a dish which it stated gave a sensational…

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Looted Gold Mines a Series of Robberies

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 6

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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English Goldfield. "Reef 31 Miles Long."

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 2

For some time past minors have been afloat as to the discover of a gold-field in England within 200 miles of London. It has been slated in whispers that the…

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LOOTED GOlD Mines. a Series of Robberies

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 8

A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred miners in the goldfields have been looting several mines and stealing large…

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Colliery Employees

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 4

At the Northern District Colliery Employees’ Federation picnic, Mr Morgan, secretary of the Illawarra Colliery Employees’ Association, said…

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English Goldfield. “Reef 31 Milds Long.”

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 6

For some time past rumors have been afloat as to the discovery of a gold-[?] in England within 200 miles of London. It has been stated in whispers that the…

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Mining a Bell's Creek

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 9

Mr A. E Warne reports to the Braidwood Express that mining prospects at Bell's Greek are very satisfactory and encouraging. The Banner, for sinking of which to a…

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Yalwal Gold

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 2

The Yalwal Consolidated mines, worked oil tribute, last year gave 396 oz. of gold, valued at £1,093. From the Homeward Bound mine…

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The Coal Seams on the Clyde

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1907 · page 4

A Braid wood contemporary hears that Mr Shoebridge has discovered a new seam of coal overlying a deposit of kerosene shale, both of…

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The Coal Seams on the Clyde

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 27 April 1907 · page 7

A Braidwood contemporary that Mr Shoebridge has discovered a new seam of coal overlying a deposit of kerosene shale, both of…

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Inter-District Debate. Nowra v. Helensburgh. Nationalisation of Coal Mines

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 12

A debate took place on Friday night last, in the Helensburgh Club rooms, between teams representing the Nowra School of Arts and the Helensburgh and Lilyvale Workmen's Club…

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Riotous Coal-Lumpers. Free Laborers Attacked

The Bega Budget · Saturday 4 May 1907 · page 5

The coal-lumpers' strike culminated on Wednesday in a series of disturbances, the like of which has not been witnessed in…

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Coal-lumpers' Strike Collapsing

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 8 May 1907 · page 2

The regularity with which the coaling of ships is being carried out is making the unionists out on strike apprehensive that this time…

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Inferior Coal

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 7

The Iridescent colors in what is called "peacock coal" are due to the presence of a film of iron oxide. It usually means the loss of a part of the volatile…

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Moss Vale Gold Discovery

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1907 · page 4

Matters are developing very slowly in connection with the discovery of gold near Moss Vale, although they have shown a little…

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The Helensburgh Colliery

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 May 1907 · page 9

When the representatives of the Nowra School of Arts visited Helensburgh to debate the question of "The Nationalisation of Coal Mines" with representatives of the…

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Inferior Coal

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 3

The iridescent colors in what is called “peacock coal” are due to the presence of a Aim of iron oxide. It usually means the loss of a part of the volatile…

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