Colliery Explosion. Seventy-one Lives Lost. [By Cable.] London
Brief particulars are to hand of a dreadful explosion, followed by a fire, in a colliery at Kattowitz, in Austria. The miners working underground at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1896
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Newcastle's Troubles. Work at Hetton Colliery to be Resumed. [By Telegraph.] Newcastle
An adjourned meeting of the miners employed at the Hetton colliery was held last evening. It was stated that the manager was agreeable to pay…
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THE MINER is informed by Mr. Goddard, the special representative of the Leigh's Creek Coal Company, now visiting the Hill, that a few…
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THE mill last week treated 1056 tons of crudes, assaying 26 2 per cent, for lead, 5.8oz for silver, and 17.4 per cent, for zinc, producing 302 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle Coal Trade. Sidney
All preparations are being made for a general strike at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coolgardie Goldfield. Perth
A wonderful yield is reported from the Little Wonder mine at Coolgardie, 48 tons of stone yielding 2950oz of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MINING. The Junction
M'Intyre shaft has now reached a depth of 96ft. below the 550ft. level, the bottom still being in tough sinking ground. A contract has been let…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miner Office, 4 p.m. Nationalisation of Coal Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A deputation waited on the Premier yesterday afternoon to urge the nationalisation of the coal mines as the only effectual method of preventing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nationalisation of Coal Mines. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A deputation waited on the Premier yesterday afternoon to urge the nationalisation of the coal mines as the only effectual method of preventing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining. [By Telegraph.] The Proprietary. Purchase of the Waratah Smelting Works. SYDNEY
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company has notified the Sydney Stock Exchange that it has purchased the Waratah smelting works, in the Newcastle district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. Block 14
THE mill last week treated 2033 tons crude[?], producing 700 tons concentrates and slimes of the us[?]al fair assay average for silver and lead. During…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leigh's Cheek Coal
A SUCCESSFUL trial of this coal was made in Adelaide on Friday last at Messrs. Primrose and Co.'s brewery, Rundle-street. There were a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Return of Transvaal Miners
A remarkable scene was says the Press Association, witnessed in Plymouth Sound on February 5, on the arrival of the Castle Company's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MINING. The South
The mill last week treated 1060 tons crudes, producing.282 tons concentrates and 150 tons slimes. These Latter, treated at the buddies, yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospital Collectors and the Mines
MR. KOHLER was misunderstood in his remarks at the Hospital Committee meeting last evening. What he really said was:â" Sitting at a table at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MINING. Block 10
A CONTRACT has been let for carrying an open [?]tting and driving a tunnel from the boundary of the underlay blocks on the western side of the hill to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Land Tax Returns. The Position of Holders of Miners' Rights
" J. D. STEPHENS, Mica-street," writes: —"Will you be kind enough to answer a question which not only affects myself but also hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Premier on Nationalising the Coal Mines
A DEPUTATION, introduced by Messrs. Sleath and Hughes, Ms.L.A., waited on the Premier last week to lay before him resolutions concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MINING. The Junction
THE western development stopes at the 550ft. present no new feature for the past week. Everywhere big breasts of friable sulphides are visible in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Land Tax. Miners' Rights and Business Leases. No Return Required. An Official Reply
YESTERDAY the MINER wired to the Commissioners of Taxation asking if returns under the new Land Tax would be required for land held under…
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