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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
483 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 25
A terrible colliery disaster has occurred at Westphalia, when owing to the accumulation of fire damp at Recklinghousen and explosion occurred in the pit. The men were at work at the time, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible colliery disaster, owing to an accumulation of fire damp, took place at Heckling. The explosion occurred in the pit whilst the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Lansell has cut good gold in his Bendigo mine at a depth of 3200ft. Mining ia a standstill at Trunkey for want of water. About Junction Point several parties are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the information of Mr A. Thomas, Manager of the East Greta Coal Company, two minors named Searston and Edward Richards were charged at the West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three days passed, and Ivor had made up his mind to go up to Kimberley on the following day. Beatisire was as yet undecided. He had fallen in with a party of wandering…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Theodore Bent, who visited and described the extraordinary ruins and vestiges of ancient gold mines at Zimbabye, in Mashonaland, has made a similar discovery in a remote corner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Prince of Wales claim, Wyalong, was the scene of another accident yesternight', when a young man named Walter Taylor while working at the bottom of a shaft accidentally fell from above,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hogan, who struck the rich find of gold at McDonaldtown, reached Georgetown to-day. He says that a fortnight ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another miner was killed at the Princo of Wales' claim, Wyalong, yesterday. "Walter Naylor was working at the bottom of the shaft, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is evidence from what has recently appeared in Queensland papers that there may presently be a rush in search of gold to British New Guinen. In The Northern Minor, of Charters Towers, under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Theodore Bent, who visited and described the extraordinary ruins and vestiges of ancient gold mines at Zimbabye, in Mashonaland, has made a similar discovery in a remote corner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →An interesting exhibit, as showing the coal resources of the Hunter district, has just been turned out at the East Greta Colliery, in the shape of a huge block of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Croydon Consols mine at Croydon (Q.) has paid £30,000 in dividends within the past fourteen months. A large property at Tuena has been taken up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"That is just what I can't tell you. He met some friend at the Internation Hotel in Cape Town, and was going up country with them, but where I don't know."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Owing to the cost of labour on the Rand goldfields and the increased expenses arising out of the dynamite monopoly on the Transvaal, Barney Barnato, the South African millionaire and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unusually severe weather is being experienced in London, and several donths from exposure to excessive cold are reported…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Supreme Court to-day Algernon Cohen brought an notion against Nathaniel Cohen for the recovery of 5 per cent, commission of £40,000 in respect of the sale of Bueen Creak mines. Evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the early days, when gold was first discovered in the Transvaal, many men left their occupations and their homes, and trekked northwards in order to try their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Never since that memorable catastrophe at Merewether some years back in which about a dozen coal-hewers lost their lives, has such excitement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday night another catastrophe took place at the Stockton Colliery which resulted in the death of several miners. On the previous night two men named Curran…
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