Remarkable Colliery Dispute
Work at West Wallsend Colliery, in the Newcastle district, was stopped on Tuesday morning owing to the wheelers refusing to go on duty. It appears that there…
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Mining & the mines, 1906
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Gold Movements
Australia contributed £3,440,000 of gold to the British supply during 1905, according to the Board of Trade returns, against £4,158,000 in 1904, and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A Mine on Fire. Sydney, Sunday Night
The fire in the Broken-hill Junction Mine, still continues unabated…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.—Consternation has been caused by an outbreak of fire in Block 11 Proprietary Mine. The fire is believed, to have been caused during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Cangai Copper Mine
Accompanied by the genial Superintendent, Mr. Harps, I paid a visit to the workings of the Grafton Copper Mining Co.'s works here last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Diamond Mining
Diamond mining at Kimberley is the subject of an illustrated article in the "Engineering Magazine." from which it appears that the ancient, laborious methods of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Elingamite Gold. Sydney
It is rumoured that the bullion lost in the Elingamite wreck may have been secured by two or three Yankee adventurers, as the diver with recent expeditions could find no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters
The gold won in this State to the end of 1905 is estimated at 12,532,651oz., valued at £53,235,286. The yield for 1905 was 274,267oz., valued at £1,165,013, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tin-mining in the North
A visit has just been paid by the UnderSecretary for Mines, Mr. Pittman, to Tingha, in the Inverell district. He had not been there for six years, and the first thing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cangal Copper Mine
The Grafton Copper Coy., Ltd., this week discharged a number of the hands engaged at the Cangai mines. it is, however, understood that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold-mining on the Coast
At Shellharbour, along the coast, and a few miles from Sydney, are a number of "sea miners" working constantly by extracting gold from the sand. The method…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Anklets of Gold
The anklet, after hundreds of years, has returned to favour, and is to grace the slender ankle of the belle of to-day. The modern anklet resembles the plain gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Notes. Bassetti and Party
Bassetti and party have been opening up a copper show a Ewenger Creek, north of Lionsville, with fair results. A parcel of about four tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appalling Colliery Disaster. Over 1000 Miners Lost
LONDON, Sunday.— A terrible mining disaster has occurred in Courrieres, France. A fire broke out in a mine at a depth of 800ft., and led to a terrible explosion…
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LONDON, Sunday.—A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Courriews, France. Three galleries in a mine were converted into a mass of flames, reaching the pit's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Coal Situation
The United States Steel Corporation is utilising its contract for the supply of coal to compel owners of bituminous collieries to grant the increase of wages, 12½ per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beach Mining on the Coast
The enterprise of Mr. Argles in erecting a plant for the extraction of gold from sea water at the northern end of the Sevenmile Beach, near Byron Bay, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Mining Fatality. Sydney
A miner, named Ben Nicholson was killed and his companion seriously injured through a fall of stone at the Oroya Mine, Kalgoorlie, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Disaster. Over a Thousand Lives Lost
LONDON, TUESDAY.—The latest roll of the mine at Courrieres, France, where an explosion took place on Saturday morning at a depth of 700ft, shows that 591 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Colliery Disaster
LONDON, Thursday.—The engineers assert that men are still alive in the galleries of the Courrieres mine. Falls of roof, however, impede searching being carried on…
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