Mine Manager's End. Shocking Explosion
The details of the explosion which took place at the Diamond Gully Hydraulic Sluicing Company's works, near Castlemaine (Victoria), on…
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Mining & the mines, 1904
512 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 26
Mining Matters
The extensive use of wolfram for war projectiles in supposed to be responsible for the great demand which has set in for this metal. The correspondent of a…
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The manager of the Collie-Cardiff coal mine (W.A.) proceeded at the Police Court against the miners who recently went on strike, on a charge of breach of the Arbitration Act. The beach…
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Notices have been posted at a number of the coalmines in the Newcastle district, of a reduction in the standard hewing rate from 3s l0d to 3s 6d per ton, while the selling price…
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One of the lighthouse-keepers at Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, has discovered alluvial gold in the vicinity. One nugget which was found weighs over half an ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Russian Cruisers. Interception by H.M.S. Forte. Coal Supply and Armament. Arrangements for Supplies. London, Sept. 9
Interesting particulars have been received of the speaking of the Russian volunteer cruisers Petersburg and Smolensk' by the British cruiser Forte (Captain C. H…
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An burst of sand and water occurred at the Duke United mine, Mary borough. Victoria, about 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, causing the death of two miners, while…
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Mr. William Flemming pulled up a cabbage stalk on Mr. Jas. M'rae's farm at Barrington a low days are, and discovered a nugget of gold. It was of no great size just…
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The Duke United mine, at Timor, near Maryborough (Vic.), was the scene on Saturday afternoon of a distressing mining accident, resulting in…
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Mr. W. A. Reid, of Newcastle, solicitor to the Northern Colliery Employees Federation, has filed affidavits in the Arbitration Court, Sydney in reference to the application to be made for an…
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The matter of the Colliery Employees Federation of the northern district against the Northern Colliery Proprietors Association was before the Arbitration Court to-day. The applicant union is seeking to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trouble at a Colliery. Killingworth Mine Idle. Newcastle
Trouble has occurred at Killing worth Colliery owing to the posting of the notice of reduction in the selling price of coal, and the hewing rate as from to-day and the…
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Consequent upon the slackness in shipping the coal trade at the port of Newcastle has been dull during the week. However, the pits worked in a few instance better than…
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It happened down in the Pacific somewhere, said the South Sea trader, about 150 degrees wast, 20 degrees south, where the sea's as full of islands as a…
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The matter of the Colliery Employees Federation of the northern district against the Northern Celliery Proprietors Association was before the Arbitration Court to-day. The applicant union is seeking to…
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At a meeting of unemployed miners and men who joined in the Gippsland coal strike, hold at Outtrim to consider if something' could be done to induce the Jumbunna and…
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The Scottish coal trade is improving, and the miners are working full time. At a conference held at Glasgow between representatives of the mine owners and minors it…
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The report of the Geological Survey of Canada for the past year, recently issued, shows that since 1800 upward of 97,000,000 dol. worth of gold has been shipped out…
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