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Mining & the mines, 1914

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Convent Sisters Manage a Coal Mine

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 35

A coal mine with a productive capacity of sixty tons a day, sufficient to supply heat, light and power for one of the largest convent schools in the country, has been…

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Hampden[?]cloncurry Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

The manager reports by telegram dated March 10 as follows:- Hampden Mine.—No. 1 shaft, 500ft level, south drive l8 south, 4 west to 65 feet, kaolin, pyrites. North…

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Mount Ross Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

Under date of March 7, the mine manager reports for the week havin[?] bottomed the "Star" shaft on good payable wash—2ft 6in in depth. This shaft is on the "Old Star" lead, and is well ahead of the…

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British Broken Hill Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

At the B.H. British Mine last week, in development work (Thompson's section) good ore was showing in Nos. 5 and 8 levels. Low grade ore, however, appeared in No. 9 level…

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Metalliferous Miners. Award Variation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

Award variations to continue till July 11 have been gazetted by Mr. A. R. J. Watt, chairman [?]of the Metal[?]erous Mining (general) Group of Wages Boards. Clause 13 of the…

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Systematic Boring in Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 12

MELBOURNE. Wednesday.--A new departure in the exploratory work of the Mines Department was announced by the Minister (Mr. J. W. Brown) to-day to a deputation which asked…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

In Tuesday's introduction to the mining market, it was stated that the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company had declared a dividend of 1/6 per share. The amount should…

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Mining. Tumbarumba District

Evening News · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 3

To addition to several reefs in the district. Mr. C. T. Re[?] perserver[?]s with his Union Jack claim. Recently he moved his plant from the top to the lower lease and gold lease…

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Mount Carrington Copper Mine. Mhlbouhne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

Most of the work dene by Mount Carrington copper mine during the hall-year ended December 31 was on the newly-acquired lease formerly known as the Scone. On this lease a tunnel had been driven to a distance…

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Labor. Pelaw-main Colliery. Suggested Stoppage. Questions in Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 7

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Kearsley asked the Minister for Mines whether he had hoard a rumor that the proprietor of Pelaw-Main colliery had threatened that if…

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North Mount Lyell Mine. Important Development. Queenstown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

In cutting the chamber for the auxiliary shaft at about 50ft inside the footwall of No. [?] ore stope body at the 1100ft level, a drive was put out north-west for a distance of…

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Western Australian Mines. Some February Yields. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

Golden Horseshoe: 25,303 tons gold, £28,206; working expenses, £25,271; development, £3245. Perseverance: 18,777 tons: gold, £10,087;…

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Yodda Valley Gold Prospects. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 14

sir,--in your issue of Monday extracts from sir. J. Malcolm Newman's report dealing with gold-dredging in Papua are published. But the recent exhaustive examination and tests made by Messrs. H. W. Clark and K. S…

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"Trouble Brewing." Grievances of Southern Miners. House and Truck Shortage

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 11

According to Mr. Burns, M.H.R., there is "trouble brewing" in the southern end of the Illawarra electorate. Mr. Burns made a statement to this effect at a banquet tendered to…

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Mining. a Slack Market. Small Volume of Business

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 13

The state of the market yesterday morning was largely repetition of that of the previous day—a general disinclination to do business, with a consequent small volume of business…

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The Slashed Venus. Culprit's Boast. Before the Court. "Mine Is the Victory." London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 9

Mary Richardson, a well-known suffragist, who has been dealt with on several occasions under the "Cat and Mouse Act." was committed for trial to-day on a charge of…

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Suffragette's Act. Famous Painting Slashed Cost £45,000. Woman's Boast in Court. "Mine Is the Victory."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--Mary Richardson, who has been arrested for damaging the Velasquez "Venus," in the National Gallery, by slashing it with a hatchet, is well known to the police,…

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Caledonian Collieries, Ltd. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 11

The annual meeting of the Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., was held to-day, Mr. H. B. Howard Smith, chairman of directors, prosided, and, in moving' the adoption of the…

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Lambton B Colliery Idle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 12

Lambton B Colliery was idle to-da. A number of men were holding a meeting early this morning in reference to certain special cavils which had to bo drawn that day. The…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 13

The following companies have been added in the official 11st of the Sydney Stock Exchange:—The Penzanco Tin Mines, N.L., Nomi[?] capital £100,000. In 100,000 shares; and the…

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