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Mining & the mines, 1910

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The Young Wallsend Mine. Miners Object to Reopening. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 7

The suggestion made by Mr. Peter Bowling that anothor attempt should be made to work the Young Wallsend mine in order to provide funds for the federation is not meeting with…

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The Coal Strike Secrets of the Congress. Mr. Bowling Against General Strike. More Concerned with Miners' Mines. Extracts From Minute Book

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 7

Mr J Paterson, the president of the strike congress, made a statement yesterday in answer to the various accounts given of the attitudes of Mr. Hughes and the waterside…

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Island Steamer at Balmain Colliery

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 5

The steamer Moresby, or the Burns, Philp, Island mail line, has been alongside the Balmain Colliery Wharf, and it is understood has received sufficient coal for the nest trip to the…

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The Coal Strike

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 14

Very little interest is being taken in the coal strike in Sydney, and from reports to hand it seems more than likely that the miners of the South will soon follow the example, of their…

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Mines and Mining. Dealings in Scrip. Another Slump in Copper. To-day's Operations

The Star · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 5

Copper was emoted in London yesterday at £60 5s, a decline of 7s 6d per ton on the day. Lead remained unchanged at £13 16s 3d per ton…

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Assistance for the Miners

The Star · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

The movement, inaugurated by the Rockchoppers' Union, having for its object the raising of funds to relievo the distress existing among the wives and families of the…

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Victoria's Gold Yield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 54

The yield of gold in Victoria foy the year 1909 was 702,221oz gross, or 65l,222oz fine, valued at £?,77S,950. This shows a decrease of 1S,998oz gross as compared with the yield for 1908. For…

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Mining. Yass

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 10

At Sapling Point, the Murrumbidgee Lead) Syndicate,for which Messrs. Johnson and See are managers, has been engaged In developing work for the past three-months Satisfactory…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 13

The Jembalcumbene Dredging Company reports a yield of 35oz 9dwt for a fortnight's run. The Brilliant Deep Company ([?].T.)…

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The Newcastle Coal Trade

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

Our conditions regarding the probable effects of the present strike on the coal export trade of Newcastle are endorsed by Messrs. Earp Bros. and…

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Powlett River Coal Field

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 54

The Powlett River Coal Field (which, was. illustrated and described in the last issue of the "Journal'') was visited by the Victorian Government Geologist. In a memorandum to the…

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Dissatisfied Miners. Demonstration Against Candidates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 9

The Durham miners are dissatisfied with the agreement which their agents made with the coal-owners respecting the eight hours provis [?]n of the Coal Mines…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 15

Cope's Creek dredge worked 81 hours, cleaning in the concentrates and treating the overburden. The boxes were run down for 4 tons tin. Owing to the heavy floods the paddock and barge were…

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Ophir Conserves Coal. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 7

Owing to the necessity for conserving coal tho R.M.S. Ophir did not arrivo at tho outer harbour until midday. The mails were despatched to Melbourne by the ordinary…

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Coal and Coke for Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 12

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The steamer Cycle, which arrived from the eastern States last night, brought 500 tons of coal for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's works at Glanville…

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Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 13

The B. H. Proprietary Company is looking at the old Silverton Proprietary mine, and it is possible will take an option over it to test the old-time ore won from a narrow lode at…

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Balmain Colliery. Liquidator's Denial. Mr. Gray Makes a Correction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 7

Mr. A. Gray, secretary of the Miners Amalgamation, stated on Monday night that the Balmain colliery had been worked for the last three weeks, and was turning out 300 tons of…

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Mining. a Depressed Market

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 15

All departments of the Sydney mining market were very dull yesterday, so much so that no sales of gold scrip were reported, if Mount Morgan be excepted. This continuance of the…

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Gold Production of New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 54

The usual return furnished by the Under Secretary for Mines shows that the gold yield recorded for this State for the month of December. is 25,084oz crude, equal to 21,681oz fine…

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Determined Clifton Miners. Will Not Return at Present

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 12

CLIFTON, Tuesday.--The recent Police Court proceedings at Clifton, when the South Clifton Coal Mining Company proceeded against 187 miners for absenting themselves from work,…

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