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Mining & the mines, 1909

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Colliery Explosion. Rescue Party Entombed

Evening News · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—An explosion in the Boswell Coal Mine, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, killed three miners. A subsequent fall entombed a rescue party of fifty…

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Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 15

The New "Wylie Crook Tin Dredging Company has received advice that the international jury of the Franco- British Exhibition awarded a gold medal for an exhibit-prepared by the…

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Latest Mining News. (Continued from page 89.) Gold, Tin, and Copper

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 53

The following yields of gold, tin, and copper are reported: -- GOLD. New South Wales. -- Araluen Central No. 1…

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Record Gold Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 11

In 1907 the gold production of the world was estimated by the best authorities at about 83 millions storlling The "Statist" accordingly feels Itself justified in assuming that the total…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 17

The Victorian Government geologist regards the Powlett River coalfield discovery as the greatest made for 25 years. A syndicate with £300 capital intends…

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Mining. Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 11

There was no meeting of the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday, in consequence of it being observed as a public holiday. The following Charters Towers yields are…

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Miners' Federation. Joins Labor Party

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald M.P. (Lab), Leicester, secretary of the Parliamentary Labor Party, announces that the Miners' Federation accepts the…

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Miners Want £2000 a Week

Evening News · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 7

At a meeting of the Journeymen Tailors' Union, held in Sydney on Tuesday evening, Mr. Jabez Wright, of Broken Hill, attended, and asked for help for the miners in their struggle…

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Western Australian Mines. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 11

On Saturday last the management of the Great Boulder Perseverance cabled to the London Board that the winze from the 1750ft level had been put down a total depth of…

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Gold Shipments. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 11

Gold shipmonts by the Ormuz to-day consisted of £2000 for London, shipped by the Orient S.N. Company. FREMANTLE, Tuesday…

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Mining. Forest Reefs

Evening News · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 3

A new company has been formed to work the ground between the Calvert Copper Mine and the Gooley's Creek Mine, and has taken up 100 acres. At the Gooley's Creek Mine a…

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Guarding the Mines at Broken Hill

Evening News · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 9

The Police, armed with carbines, defending the Railway to Block 10 Mine. Another Squad of armed Police, protecting the Proprietary Mine. The barricades are formed of bags of sand…

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Heddon-greta Colliery. Reopening a Section. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 10

A section of the northern workings of the Heddon-Greta Colliery, comprising 12 bords, which was sealed off about' four months ngo, owing to a fire, has been successfully reopened…

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Gold Tops and Silver Tails

Evening News · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 8

"It's, disgraceful," said a committee man-connected with the Druids' Gala yesterday, to an "Evening News" reporter, "that there should be 'gold tops and silver tails' in an order…

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North Queensland Mines. the Tin Country. Iv

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 7

The tin fields of North Queensland occur in mountainous country that lies to the back of Cairns and Port Douglas, and which forms the watershed from which the Tate, Waish, and…

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To Suppress Gold-stealing. Pledge by Employees

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Action to suppers gold-stealing and Illicit gold-buying has taken by the men,employed in the Go Consolidated…

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British Miners' Federation. Joins Labour Party. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 9

Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., Secretary of the Labour party in Parliament, announces that the Miners' Federation accepts the conditions of the Labour party…

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Mining in the State. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 11

Mining matters in this locality are very quiet at present. At the "Warden's Court yesterday the new Merrilla copper-mining syndicate was granted six months' suspension of…

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General Mining News. New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 53

The fourth furnace has been lighted at the Cadla mines, and smelting operations have been generally resumed. Owing to the number of men seeking work, some have been…

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Victoria's Coal Bed. Selecting a Site for a Shaft

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 9

MELBOURNE,Tuesday.--The Minister for Mines, accompanied by the Geological Director and the officer, in charge of boring operations, will leave on Friday for the Powlett coal basin…

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