Mining Matters
Tunnelling work is proceeding steadily at the Sydney Harbour Collieries Company's Balnmin pit. A distance of 160 yards has been driven, and the output of coal represents about 100 tons per week…
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Mining & the mines, 1902
511 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 26
Mining Matters
Arrangements are being made to pay the fortnightly wages at the Northern district collieries tomorrow afternoon, instead of on Friday. Thursday is to be observed as a general holiday, and as…
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The Arbitration Court heard further evidence at Wollongong yesterday with regard to the southern miners' case. A conference has been proposed for Bottling for settling the question at issue, and this was dealt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gold Tax. LONDON
Lord Milner, the Governor of the [?]al, has informed the Chamber of Mines of Johannesburg that the tax of 10 per cent, on the nett production…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Maitland Coal Satisfactory Development. Vi
The Australian Agricultural Company, one of the wealthiest, us it is also one of the oldest institutions iu the country, baa purchased and leased, at immense cast, a Tory large area of coalbearing land adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Coal Mines. Satisfactory Development. Vii
To the south of Pelaw-Main lies another grand coal property belonging to the Messrs. J.and A. Brown. This is the well-known Richmond Vale Estate, comprising about 5000 acres of freehold…
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The Wollonsong coal trade wan brisk last week, and in addition to the usual shipments seven ships took loads for inter-State ports. There was full-time pay at most of the collieries last fortnight…
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One of the most important events to the north coal trade in England is the opening of the Russian port of Cronstadt for navigation, a a shipment of thousand tons daily being no uncommon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Mutters
Since the miners at East Greta, Stanford Merthyr, and Pelaw-Main, have become affiliated with the Colliery Employees' Federation, there has been a movement to secure a hewing rate proportionate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Coal Mines. Satisfactory Development. Viii
Coal mining is not new to maitland by any means, though its extensive and rapid development of late years is of quite an extraordinary character. Fifty years ago the discovery, of an outcrop of coal was…
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Mr. John Bower, chairman of the delegate board of the Colliery Employes Federation, presided at a special meeting, held in Newcastle on Tuesday. There was a full representation of the various lodges,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines Under the Ocean
The Chilian coal mines, opened in 1855, seem to be quite pleasant places to work in. The seam of coal runs from the coast line under the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Maitland Coal Mines
Passenger and goods trains run daily at 8.30 and 2.30 p.m. rom the East Greta Railway Junction to East Greta, Henddon-Greta, Stanford-Merthyr, and Pelaw-main, returning at 9.30 a.m., and 4 p.m. (Sundays excepted). A Sunday…
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The annual report of the Secretary of Mines shows that during the pant year Victoria produced 200,328 tons of coal, valued at £147,191 at the pit's mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Terible Mining Accident Over 100 Perish
ONE of the most terrible disasters in the history of the frequent mine accidents in British Columbia occurred on the night of May 22, in the Crow's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Matland Coal Mines. Maitland's Future Prospects. Ix
That the wonderfully progressive development of the new collieries in the district to which we have alluded at some length on account of their importance, industrially and commercially, means much to…
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The return compiled by the Department of Mines shows that tho gold yield of this State for the month of June was 10,287 crude ounces, equal to 8746 fine ounces, valued at £37,152, as compared with 24,547…
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Boring operations for coal on Lord Dudley's estate, Staffordshire, involving an outlay of £30,000, has resulted in the discovery of a large and rich coal field…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Coal Mines
Passenger trains run daily at 8.30 and 2.30 p.m. from the East Greta Railway Junction to East Greta, Heddon-Greta, Stanford-Merthyr, and Pelaw Mail, returning at 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m (Sundays excepted). A Sunday…
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