Poetry. Looking for Gold
Up on the mountain, down in the mine, Mid fire-damp air or winter's cold, Poor children of men, with souls divine, Wear out their lives as they strife or pine,…
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Mining & the mines, 1886
113 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 6
How Deep Can Coal be Worked. (Engineer, Nov. 16.)
The practicability of working coal at much greater depths than hitherto has been generally thought possible was strongly urged in the course of a paper on "The Long Wall System," by Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fifty Miles of Loaded Coal Wagons
Our miners who are still talking—through their leaders—of striking for a 15 per cent. advance in wages, might be invited to consider the present condition of the coal market. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Natural Gas Beating Coal
The economic employment of natural gas in nearly all the iron works at Pittsburgh is creating an entire revolution in the labour market, the output of iron and steel at Pittsburgh being about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poetry. a Countrywoman of Mine
Handsome? I hardly know. Her profile's fine— Delightful, intellectual, aquiline. Her keen eyes light it—keen, yet often kind; Her fair hair crowns it to an artist's mind…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Department of Mines, Public Parks Branch, Sydney, 30th January, 1886
Sir,—In reply to your letter of the 20th instant, respecting the appointment of trustees for Cassilis Park, I have the honor to inform you that the purchase of the land is not yet completed—Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining Manager's Report. Newcastle, November 18, 1885
GENTLEMEN,—At your request I visited the Gold Mine known as Tia Reef, near Walcha, and now beg to submit my report upon that property. The reef runs about north-east and south-west, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wonders of Coal Tar
"Chemistry is capable of wonderful things," said an expert in chemical science, "but in nothing to which its principles were ever applied have such marvellous results followed as are witnessed in its…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Terrible Accident at the Lithgow Valley Colliery. [By Telegraph Trom Greville's Telegram Co.] Monday, lodged 11.40; received 12.30
A telegram to Mr. Mackenzie, Examiner of Coalfields, was received this morning from the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery-Company to the effect that the pit was on fire, and the men inside. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Accident at the lithgow Valley Colliery. Sydney, Monday morning
A TELEGRAM to Mr. Mackenzie, Examiner of Coalfields, was received this morning from the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery Company to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mining Disaster at Lithgow. (Telegram in Herald.) Lithgow
About 7 o'clock last night it was reported here that the Lithgow Colliery Company's mine was full of smoke, and that evidently something had occurred in the mine to set it on fire. John Doig,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Colliery Explosion
The explosion at the Marday Colliery Pit in Wales, turns out to be far more serious and fatal than was at first expected, and it is now feared that about eighty men have perished in the pit. For…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Coal in Victoria
In the course of a speech delivered by Mr. Gillies, the present Victorian Premier, at Echuca and reported in the Australasian, Mr. Gillies alludes as follows to the various attempts that have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lessening Colliery Explosions. (Dr. J. E. Taylor, in Australasian.)
Anything relating to colliery and general mining operations is just now of public interest. In view of this fact, several experiments just made with the newly-invented "water cartridges" in the most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Minister of Mines at Newcastle
On Saturday, the Hon. James Fletcher, Minister of Mines, was returned to the Assembly unopposed. Following are the portions of his speech which relate to the policy of the Government. We take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Coal Mine Explosion
A remarkable explosion of gas occurred last week at a colliery at Almy, Wyoming, just as a train of waggons was entering the shaft of the level, and the effect was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Invention to Secure Safety in Coal Mines
We (Scientific American) illustrate a very interesting and remarkable invention by Mr. Henry Guy Carleton, of this city, designed for the humane purpose of indicating the presence or approach of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sad Colliery Disaster
AT about 9 o'clock on Thursday morning Newcastle was startled by the news that a miniag catastrophe had accured at the Ferndale Colilery, Tighe's Hill, and that two men…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The further Cheapening of Coal-gas
In the Scientific American, January 30, is published an illustrated account of a new method (or modification) for the making of coal-gas, for illuminating purposes. Persons interested will no…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Ferndale Colliery Disaster
THE disaster at the Ferndale colliery besides casting a gloom over the whole district, on account of the sad results that attended it, will be the means of…
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