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Mining & the mines, 1912

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Northern Coal Trade

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 11

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—Briskness continues to be the feature of the cool trade for fortnightly pay to be drawn by the [?] next Friday. Nineteen miners have worked…

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Fossils and Gold

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 3

In Alaska the bones and often the entire bodies of extinct animals such as the mammoth the mastodon, the reindeer and the bison, are found most abundantly in layers of soil…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 18

The Arba in mine (Tas.) finished cleaning up on Monday. December 18, for 24 tons 2cwt of tin for six weeks. The mine closed down on Saturday, December 23, for the Christmas…

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Coal and Other Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 16

The following vessels were cleared at the Newcastle Customs-house yesterday:—Alabama, s, for Melbourne, with 2650 tons coal, and 110 tons bunkers; Suva, s, for Brisbane, with…

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The Week's Coal Export

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 17

The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ended yesterday amounted to 57,816 tons. Of this quantity. 16,274 tons were sent to foreign ports, whilst…

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Miners' Minimum Wage. Taking a Ballot

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Evening.--The Miners' Federation has begun the ballot on the proposal for a national stoppage to enforce the principle of a minimum wage for underground…

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Newcastle. the Week's Coal Export. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 16

The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ending to-day amounted to 57,816 tons. Of this quantity 16,274 tons were sent to foreign ports, whilst…

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Mining. British Weaker. Moderate General Turnover

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 17

British Broken-hill (old) shares, which were quoted at [?]s (middle) on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, were yesterday cabled as having relapsed to 50s 6d (middle). The…

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The Coal Vend Case. The Other Side of It

The International Socialist · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

AFTER a hearing that ran into nearly a quarter of a year, Judge Isaacs has fined the members of the Coal Vend £500 each and has ordered them…

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Elopement Tragedy Throws Gold Away and Shoots Man [?] Self in Country Lane

The Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 2

Remarkable sequel to a Summer clopement A re[?]ribed at last month's inquest at Meo[?]as den[?]and on Harry Anstey, aged sixty, a [?]ham [?]ster and property owner, of…

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Justice's Heavy Hind. Pensioner Sent to Hard I Bor for Taking Coal Valued at Sixpence

The Arrow · Saturday 6 January 1912 · page 3

A grey-haired, tottering Old-[?] pensioner, Amos Burgess, was at Luton Eng[?] last month sentenced to seven days' imprisonment with hard labor, without the option of [?] for the…

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Mining and Finance. General Remarks

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1912 · page 12

It is a striking fact that the present year opens most auspiciously so far as industrial enterprises and gilt-edged securities are concerned. For example, British Consols and many Australasian Government stocks have…

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Brown Blows the Bugle. the Coal King Cackles

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1912 · page 1

On Monday last, at the animal official, luncheon held in connection with the Newcastle Regatta, Mr. John Brown, the Newcastle…

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Colliery Doctors Resigning

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 15

It is reported from Kurri Kurri that the medical officers of the various collieries and friendly societies have resigned their positions, owing to the suggested agreement Put forward…

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Southern Coal Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 15

WOLLONGONG, Saturday--The local coal trade continues to maintain its activity, and those in a position to know state that there are sufficient orders in hand to keep the mines fairly active…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 11

All machinery of the Broken Hill Junction North Company underwent the usual overhaul at the end of the year. In construction, work proceeded with the erection of the new…

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Coal and Other Exports

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 15

At the local Custom-house on Saturday, clearances were granted to the following vessels:--Werribe[?], str., for Melbourne, with 5500 tons coal, 310 tons bunkers, and 39 poles;…

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In and About the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 13

Our Broken-hill correspondent telegraphed:-- "The South Extended reports that the 600ft. level has been advanced 22ft., the face carrying 5ft of good-grade sulphides, assaying 12.5 per…

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Mining. Major's Creek

Evening News · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 3

Returns are to hand of the treatment of several small parols of stone sent from Major's Creek to C[?] Creek Smelting Works. of stone sent away from Messrs. Snare and party's roof at Major's…

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Newcastle. the Year in the Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1912 · page 15

The return of days worked at the district collieries during the past year gives the following particulars:--Abermain, 251 days; Hebburn, 239; Stanford Merthyr, 238; East Greta,…

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