Colliery Disaster
WELLINGTON, Friday.—A serious fire broke out last night in the Caps colliery, near Invercargill. A number of miners were imprisoned in the mine, but the only…
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Mining & the mines, 1907
374 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 19
Fatal Colliery Accident
At the Quarter Sessions, Sydney, before Judge Murray and a jury, John Wilson, mine manager, was arraigned on a charge of having at Scarborough, on April 13,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines Department Criticised
Mr. H. C. Slade, a well-known mining expert, ridicules the statement of the Mines Department that the assaying of samples from all parts of the State is carried out…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The situation in connection with the coal jumpers' strike is becoming grave. To-day a body of strikers took up a stand opposite the Southern…
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A deputation waited on the Premier in regard to advertisements appearing, in the press of Great Britain to the effect that coal miners were wanted in N.S. Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World's Gold Production
Some interesting statistics have been compiled illustrating,the great expausion in the world's production of gold in recent years. Last year's figures are in part estimated, but the total of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Transvaal Mining Trouble
LONDON, Wednesday.—In a debate in the Transvaal Parliament, Sir George Farrar. censured General Botha, the Prender, for breaking his promise to protect the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining. Grafton Copper Co
In his weekly report, Mr. Mulligan, manager of the Grafton Copper Co.'s Cangai mine, writes as follows:—Work has been proceeded satisfactory for the week,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold in a Graveyard
A message from Melbourne on Wednesday states: -- The announcement that gold-bearing stone, 19 inches wide, has been struck in a grave at the old…
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Mr. T. Temperley has applied for a mineral lease of 26 acres, embracing part of lagoon or swamp, distant about 5 chains from the South Pacific Ocean, extending from the south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Reef in a Graveyard
Further particulars relative to the discovery of a gold-bearing reef in the Ballurat (vic.) old cemetery show that gold-bearing quartz has been struck in another grave about 70 yards to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Coal-lumpers' Strike. Sydney
A mass meeting in sympathy with the coal-lumpers now on strike was held yesterday. It was announced that the lumpers wore more…
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In receiving a deputation from the Rand strikers, General Botha reised to promise a Compulsory Arbitration Bill on the ground that as it could not be…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An acute stage has been reached in the coal lumpers dispute, and an industrial crisis is threaloned. If this is reached the waterside workers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Mining Act
SYDNEY, Friday.—The new Mining Act is to take effect from July 15. Important new proposals are made for ensuring the bona fide working of mines, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MINING. Grafton Copper Co
At the weekly meeting of the directors of the Grafton Copper Company on Thursday it was decided to instill an electric power plant for the more elfective working of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. "The Curse of the Country:"
Despite the Under—Secretary's statement to the contrary, Mr. H. C. Slade still maintains that assays ot the Mines Department are of little value, and cannot be rolled…
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Areport from New Italy states the local miners are putting in full time, and, when not hewing coal, are very busy in extending the line down towards the deep waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Lumpers' Strike
An acute stage has been reached in the dispute between the coal-lumpers of Sydney and the Stevedores' Association. A grave industrial crisis may be averted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal-lumpers' Strike
SYDNEY, Monday.—The outlook in connetion with the coal lumpers' strike is still unsettled. Notwithstanding the fact that a…
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