Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1905

504 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 26

Welsh Coal for Russia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 3

Russia has ordered 60,00 tons of steam coal from Cardiff, to be delivered as early as possible…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 9

Two-residents of Maclean, in the Clarence River district, are taking stops to flout a company and develop the coal seam at Pine Scrub, near South Arm. The prospects are…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. PAPER X.

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 4

I picked up a light nullah, and prepared. to go to my station about 15 yards away. There was a murmur of surprise from the onlookers. I…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mining. More About the Timor Silver Mine

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1905 · page 2

(IN view of the large amount of public interest aroused by the publication of the account of this neglected mine in your issue of the 19th September, the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1905 · page 5

The voluntary 'Arbitration Court, which has been sitting in Newcastle during the past fortnight, dealing with the dispute at Hebburn Colliery, has concluded the taking…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Mining Matters. Selling Price of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1905 · page 6

Some discussion has been caused by the acsion of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association in not deciding to make any alteration at present in the selling price of coal…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1905 · page 3

The secretary of the Wickham. and Bullocks Island Coal Company (Mr. Alderton) reports that the Government drill put down on the company's property near Cessnock on the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

World's Deepest Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 7

Deep-sinking is a problem which Bendigo mining investors have been endeavouring to solve for a number of years past. Mr. George Lansell was the first to grapple with it. He…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 8

Another cargo of Westport coal is being sent, across from New Zealand for the Australian squadron. The steamer Hawea left Westport at midnight on Tuesday, having on…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Making Gold from Silver

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 3

The electric theory of matter has received a strong impetus at the hands of Lodge, Thomson, Crookes, and others, especially since the discovery of the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Aberdare Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 2

The connection between the main shaft and the air shaft, at Aberdare colliery, is now being made. The track will most likely be finished to-day, or…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Timor Silver Mine

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 2

The Scone Advocate of Tuesday last states:—During the present week we learn that our member (Mr. Fleming) has been to Timor, with the result that some…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mining

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 2

During the past, week, according to accounts, there has been on increased interest shown in goldmining in the Scone district…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Welsh Coal Trade

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 3

The difficulty that threatened in the coal trade of South Wales has ended. The Conciliation Board could not agree as to the employers’ claim for a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 6
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The sinkers who left the employment of the Sydney Harbour Colliery at Balmain are reported to be instructing the men who have since taken up the work in the shaft. The…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

New Guinea Head-hunters. Mysterious Disappearance of an Expedition in Search of Gold. Paper Xi

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 4

Panko’s household was extensive. He had no less than 17 wires. He was reported to be the father of a hundred children ! In one sense the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mining Matters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 16

On Friday a miner from the Macquarie River, near Euchareena, brought to Orange 15oz, gold, the result of a few weeks' work. The trouble with the shaft sinkers at the…

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

Government Coal Contracts. Alleged Conspiracy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 5

At the Sydney Police Court, on Friday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Senior-constable [?]ckey proceeded, under instructions from the Crown Law Department, against James…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Maitland Colliery Disputes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 October 1905 · page 3

The voluntary arbitration court, which has been sitting in Newcastle to deal with matters in dispute at the Hebburn and Pelaw-Main collieries, has concluded its work…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →