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Mining & the mines, 1907

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Coal Lumpers' Award Saturday Afternoon Work

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 4

In the Arbitration Court this morning Mr. Beeby, on behalf of the Coal Lumpers' Union, made an application for leave to vary the award with respect to working on Saturday…

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British Broken Hill Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

The British Broken Hill mine continues to produce carbonates from the March, Blackwood, and King sections, though none were sent away last week. Development work is…

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Broken Hill South Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

At the Broken Hill South mine development work continues active Driving and crosscutting are proceeding at six points at the 970 level, several places being in ore…

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Broken Hill North Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

At the Broken Hill North mine the south drive at the 500ft level is in 464ft. The face is in average grade sulphides. Both winzes and central mullock pass below the 800ft level…

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B.H. BLOCK 14 Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

B. H. Block 14 mine last week despatched 240 tons concentrates, and 400 tons of carbolate ore, the latter averaging 34 per cent. load and 13oz silver. The carbonate stopes…

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Newcastle. Coal and Other Exports. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

The following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-day:—Limena, bq, for Valparaiso, with 1590 tons coal; Win[?]eld, s, tor Melbourne, with 5200 tons coal; Karori, s, for…

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Mining Intelligence. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

Though the amount of business transacted yesterday morning was not large, generally speaking values were maintained. In the copper section Crowl…

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Budgery Mines. Removal of Office to Sydney. Cobar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

The first ordinary meeting of the Budgery Mines Company was held last night, Over 96,000 shares were represented. Mr. J. Edwards expressed the wish of the Sydney…

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Mining in the State. Queanbeyan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

Mr. W. Montague, who is working the Mu[?]loon Creek copper mine, near Bungendore, on tribute, recently sent a small parcel of ore to the Great Cobar works for treatment,…

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A Mine Flooded. a Man Entombed. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 7

Rain came down heavily yesterday afternoon at Bonie Vale. A large body of water rushed into the main workings of teh Westralia East Extension mine. Eight miners eseaped…

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A Yalwal Mine. Claim Against W. N. Willis. Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 6

W. N. Willis was defendant in a District Court case in which Reuben Mison, a sawmill owner, sued for the recovery of £26 2s, value of timber supplied to a mine at Yalwal on the…

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Western Australian Mines. Flooding of Lake View Consols. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1907 · page 8

The 1900ft, or bottom, workings of the Lake View Consols became flooded yesterday, the result of the recont rains. It is expected that four or five days will elapse…

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Ballarat Miners Agitating. Work in Hot Mines. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 8

For a considerable time agitation has been going on amongst miners in Ballarat for an alteration of working conditions, particularly in mines where the underground temperature…

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Coombing Ironstone Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 8

CARCOAR, Thursday.--The work of constructing the branch line of railway from the Blayney-Harden line to the Coombing ironstone mine, near Carcoar, will be completed within a few…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 10

General slackness and weakness characterised the market yesterday on the Sydney Exchange. Quotations from London came through at a lower range. This had a depress effect, and it…

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Short of Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 8

The steamer Katanga, from the West Coast of South America, bound to Sydney, put into Auckland to-day for coal. She encountered heavy weather Which caused the coal supply to…

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Entombed in a Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 8

PERTH (W.A.), Thursday.--The Minister for Mines received a telegram, this afternoon stating that the man entombed in the Westralia mine had been beard knocking. The mine was…

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A "Gold" Ring

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 5

Herbert Power (31), a photographer, pleaded not guilty, at the Central Court, to having on March 20 imposed on Demetrius Arsenis by means of a false representation, with a view of obtaining as from him…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 8

The Mount Lyell Company has consigned 3413 tons of copper for the current half-year. Development work is still proceeding satisfactorily in the New Hillgrove Proprietary…

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Vice-regal Visit. Kurri Kurri Collieries. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 6

Lord Northcote, accompanied by Sir Gerald, Strickland, Governor of Tasmania; Mr. Ewing, Minister for Defence; Dr. Liddell, M.P., Captain Fyers, A.D.C., Mr. H. H. Share,…

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