These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
705 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 29 of 36
There is trouble amongst the Victorian mine managers over the question of making compulsory by legislation the holding of a certificate by all mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An attempt has been made at Tracey, a small town in Tennessee, U. S. A., to work the mines with convict labor, supplied by the prison…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The authority of a report of a "surreptitious peep underground," which was extensively published on August 4 and 5, has been received with such general doubt,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News from Mudgee states that a discovery of rich deposits of ochres and chromes at Bumberra has recently been reported. The deposits have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A gold rush has occurred at Neville, in the Carcoar district. Immediately after midnight on Sunday the ground on the supposed lead was pegged for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A prospector named Hall came into town yesterday and reported that he had found a valuable copper lode, 10ft. wide, and traceable for about two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GREAT interest was attached to to-day's proceedings, as 8 a.m. was the time fixed by the directors and managers for starting work again at the mines;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent writes:—Last week a party of Broken Hill gentlemen made a trip to the K[?]otra Copper-mining Company's property, which is in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very amusing incidents, referred to by Mr. Sleath on the reserve, occurred yesterday afternoon in connection with a couple of the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later details concerning the explosion in a colliery at Bridge End, in Wales, show that 140 miners were entombed after an explosion of fire-damp in the pit. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fearful explosion, caused by firedamp, has occurred at the Park Slip Colliery, near Brigend, in Wales. Full details are not yet to hand;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The men who have been engaged in the work of rescuing the unfortunate miners, who were entombed by an explosion of fire-damp in a colliery a Bridgend, Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unceasing efforts have been made since the occurrence of the explosion of fire-damp in the Bridgend colliery, in Wales, to release the entombed men,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday the MINER had a paragraph to the effect that it was rumored in well-informed circles that the Central, Junction, and North companies were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Later details concerning the explosion in a colliery at Bridge End, in Wales, show that 140 miners were entombed after an explosion of fire-damp ia the pit. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FEW of the "rules and regulations of the unions," which the directors have declared they will no longer recognise, had to be more determinedly battled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Without having any definite object in view, a MINER representative and a friend strollad to the Proprietary mine yesterday afternoon, and thence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A VALUED correspondant writes:— Many people [?]n the outskirts of mining circles misapply these two terms in a most ignorant way. Take the word…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the meeting of the executive of the Mines' Association, held here yesterday afternoon, a telegram was read from Mr. Howell, stating that several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING for the month of Angaston the Bendigo goldfield (Sandhurst and Eaglehawk) was remarkably productive in gold and dividends. During the month we…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →