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Mining & the mines, 1908

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A Great Tin-Mining Centre: Irvinebank, North Queensland

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 37

ALTHOUGH the official map of Queensland does not show the same of Irvinebank, nevertheless it is one of the most important centres in the vast mineral field known as the…

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To Buy Gold. Great Exports of American Machinery. London, Dec. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 7

Reuter's correspondent reports that six Steamers have been chartered at New York to take £5,000,000 worth of farm machinery to Europe…

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Mining in New South Wales. Operations During 1907. a Good Year

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1908 · page 52

Although the official statement of the production of minerals in New South Wales for 1907 will not be available for some weeks, the Under-Secretary for Mines (Mr. E. F…

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Another Coal Strike Serious Trouble at Newcastle. Four Mines Stopped

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—When the colliery whistles blew this morning as a signal for starting the new year's work at the district's mines the response made by the miners and…

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Broken-hill Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 11

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--Several of the mines which closed down before Christmas for the holidays will not resume operations until next week, but in the case of the South,…

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Montana Copper Mine. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 9

Mr. Welch, the newly-appointed manager of the Montana copper mine, at Sunny Corner, reports that the new pumping plant has been installed, and that the shaft is now thoroughly…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 11

The Mungana during the past week despatched 282 tons copper-lead carbonates, 211 tons flux, and 186 tons lead sulphides to the smelters. Development and productive work on the Girolla…

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Mining Intelligence. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 9

The Gladstone Tin Development Company (Tas.) report a yield of 20cwt of tin tor a run of 135 hours. There is no change to roport in the…

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Mines and Agriculture the New Portfolio

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 6

Mr. Perry, Minister for Mines and Agriculture, is about to pay a visit to the Hawkesbury College, and all the experimental farms with the view of becoming thoroughly…

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Mining. the London Market

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 11

LONDON, Wednesday.--The following were among the closing quotations for Australian mining shares yesterday on the London Stock Exchange:…

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Miners Entombed. Explosion in New Mexico. London, Jan. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 5

An explosion took place yesterday in the Cortage mines, San Antonio, New Mexico. Thirty miners are entombed, and it is believed that they are dead…

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Mining in the State. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 9

One of the smelting furnaces of the Great Cobar, Ltd., was brought into operation last night after suspension for the Christmas holidays and annual repairs. The cleaning…

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No Followers Allowed. a Mining Burial Episode

Watchman · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 1

A Pelaw Main (N.S.W.) correspondent writes:—"I desire to give you an account of the proceedings which took place hero at the funeral of the late John Desmond, on…

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Attacked by Blacks. in the Search for Gold. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 4

The Cue police received a telegram from Wiluna yesterday stating that Pope, a member of Colreavy's prospecting party, had reported to the police there that the party was…

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Northern Collieries. Hebburn Working Smoothly. Miners Wanted Ah Neath

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 6

KURRI KURRI, Thursday.--The pay to be distributed this week at the collieries is the first for 12 months in which all the mines have participated together, for a fortnight's work, at…

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Northern Collieries. an Inauspicious New Year. Four Collieries Idle. Advance to Shooters and Fillers. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 7

Four collieries in the Newcastle distnict were thrown idle to-day by the action of a certain section of the employees in refusing to work. Rhondda and Pacific, two collieries…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 9

The mill of the Harden gold mine ran 455 hours during December, crushing 998 tons, yielding bullion worth £1933. There were also cyanided 806 tons sands, yielding bullion worth…

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Southern Coal Trade

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 6

The coal-miners on the South Coast are asking for a further increase in wages. The market has been brisk of late and the miners consider they…

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The Coal Trouble

The Australian Star · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 5

A "Star" reporter interviewed Mr. Doddimeade, of the Rhonda Colliery Company at his office this morning. "The whole difficulty has come as the…

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Four Collieries Idle. Newcastle Men Decline to Work

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Owing to a section of the employees declining to work today, the Pacific and Rhondda collieries, in the Teralba district, the Dudley colliery, near…

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