These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
658 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 20 of 33
The Lambton colliery has decided on a further reduction in the selling price of coal. It is feared that this decision will have serious consequences, as it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The hewing rates at the Brunnerton mines, the most productive in this colony, have been reduced, ostensibly to enable them to compete with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two boxes of opals have arrived here from Queensland. They are reported to include some of the finest stone yet found in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The energetic exploiting in this mine is now producing very satisfactory results, both on the western body adjacent to Blackwood shaft below the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Glasgow gentlemen have patented an invention which they claim will do away with the necessity for the use of water power in working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the North Broken Hill S. M. Company was held to-day. The directors were authorised to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hon. Mr. Plunkett has retired from the directorate of the Londonderry Gold Mining Company, finding himself unable to tolerate any longer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nor many people unconnected with mining care to descend our very deep shafts. Though there is no particular danger, a descent of about 30006ft. below ground is not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in the North Broken Hill S. M. Company was held to-day. The directors were authorised,to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The concentrating plant continues to run like clockwork, and is doing excellent work. Last Week the mill treated approximately 600 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday evening a rumor pervaded Newcastle that the Seaham colliery was on fire. Nothing of a definite character was, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is little fresh to report concerning the progress of the fire in the Seaham colliery. The shafts are hermetically sealed down, and as it is impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is little fresh to report concerning the progress of the fire in the Seaham colliery. The shafts are hermetically sealed down, and as it is impossible…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DURING l[?]st week the mill treated 1380 tons of crudes, producing 440 tons of concentrates. The assay from the trommels was 26[?]4 per cent, lead,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The West Wallsend minera have met the managers of the Seaham arid West Wallsend colleries; and at the request of Mr. Farley (manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE output last week was the biggest yet recorded by this mine, totalling 1838 tons. These figures would have been materially increased, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under the Municipalities Act and. the decisions thereupon collieries are rated for the purposes of the local taxation on the basis of a rent royalty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"FAIR PLAY" writes to call [?]ttention to the injustice which he alleges that firemen, coal truckers, and man employed on the dump at the Proprietary,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wages of the Wallaroo and Moonta miners are to be raised 10 per cent, in October if the price of copper is over £45 per ton; but if the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The M'Evoy mine, et which recently by an inrush of "slum" six men lost their lives, has been again the scene of a sensational and somewhat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →