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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
718 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 27 of 36
We are informed that on Thursday and Friday last eight of the miners employed at the Lithgow colliery were suspended on a charge of having filled skips containing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No news of a definite nature has come to hand respecting the resumption of activities at the above mine. Some of the former employees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Never before in this district has mining been so stagnant as it Is at the present day. Even the fossicker, who has been for the last 40 or 60…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William McDonald, a mining deputy, was found dead at Mt. Kiera Mine this Morning. He went round Ihe workings early this morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Matters in connection with the Invincible Colliery trade are assuming a brighter appearance. Additional orders having been obtained, the management has employed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before the Industrial Court on Monday, Mr. Bell, manager of the North Coast Company, said that one reason, for inability to give further increases to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An important meeting of miners was held in their hall last Saturday night, when several matters were dealt with Mr. E. Penrose, senr., has gone to Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A coal lumper named Henry Paice (45), a resident of Miller's Point, was killed this morning while working on the steamer India. He fell between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the clean un at Mt. David Mine on Tuesday last, 516 tons of ore returned 238 ozs of gold. The Huntingdon mill gave 15½ozs, whilst 54 ozs of bullion were secured from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather for the past fortnight has been nice and warm, although there have been some severe frosts. A tennis match was played between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A feeling of depression is being experienced by some of our people, whose interest, and, indeed, livelihood, depend upon the mining industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was notified in last week's "Government Gazette," that the Wages Board, for engine drivers and firemen employed, in western collieries and shale mines, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A disastrous fall of earth occurred in the Mt Morgan Company’s gold mine shortly, before 6 o’clock last night. Seven miners are entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An action -was brought to-day in the court by Francis James Brazlel to recover £2,000 from the Bellambi Coal Company, for Injuries received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first meeting of the Wages Board appointed to deal with the conditions of employment of drivers, firemen, and pumpers employed in and about western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A shock was experienced on Saturday (pay-day) by the discharge of 30 men from the Mt. David mine. This is to be regretted, as things in the place were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The project for obtaining a reduction in the hours of work for miners, which has often been mooted, in the northern coal districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →One of the most unfortunate mining fatalities that have ever happened in Queensland occurred at the Mt. Morgan Company's mine…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Mines Department has issued a small pamphlet, elucidating tho mining laws in such a way that the spirit of the Act may be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Over an inch of rain fell on Saturday and Sunday, and must have the effect of at least giving us a good coat of grass for the spring months. It is many years…
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