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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 42
Explorers of the Maypole colliery report that mutilated limbs of the lost were scattered in all directions. Deadly vapours besides the fire, which is still burning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A fire at Hampton Valley Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, destroyed the pithead, and entombed 15 men, who escaped safely by the air roads to the surface. Two of them,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fire occurred in the main shaft of the Shawfield mine in Lanarkshire. The fire demolished the pit-head framework and buildings. Eighty miners escaped by way of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is believed that 30 miners were suffocated by fire in a colliery at Oklahama. Some bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sydney coak lumpers having refused to coal the American hospital ship Relief, she was unable to get away at the advertised time for Manilla. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →William M'Donald, miners' deputy, was found dead at Mount Keira mine this morning. He had been going the early rounds of the working places, and it is believed he fell and fractured his skull…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The adjourned inquest concerning the death of the unfortunate miner, William Mason, who died in the Maitland Hospital, on the 25th instant, as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The lives of many miners at the Stunfield Colliery, in Lanarkshire, were seriously imperilled yesterday by a fire at the mine. The outbreak occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A fire at Hampton Valley' Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, destroyed the pithead, and entombed 15 men, who escaped safely by the air roads to the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The minors' strike at Alabama has collapsed, and the majority of mines will re-open as non-union concerns…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slackness of trade is responsible for much loss of time at the East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr Collieries, consequently the pay to be drawn on Friday next will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The adjourned inquest concerning the death of the unfortunate miner, William Mason. who died in the Maitland Hospital, on the 25th instant, as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Colliery Employees' Federation in Newcastle yesterday, it was reported that no agreement had yet been arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One of the most unfortunate mining fatalities that has ever happened in Queensland occurred at the Mt. Morgan Company's mine on Saturday afternoon about 5…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The delay in the resumption by the Special Mining Court of the hearing of the Teralba miners' claims is causing a strong feeling of dissatisfaction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although just at present there is very little shipping in port, and work at many of the collieries is slack, it is satisfactory to find that facilities are being provided for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twelve thousand workers in the anthracite mines in the Swansea (Glamorganshire) field have, tendered notice to cease work in order to Compel 300…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The customary fortnightly pay was distributed to-day at the South Maitland Collieries. At East Greta and Stanford-Merthyr collieries the hands experienced a good deal of idle time, owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In reference to the recently-published statements as to the state of the coal trade in the north, Mr. E. P. Simpson, who is connected with the Colliery Owners'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Colliery Employees' Federation in Newcastle on Friday, it was reported that no agreement had yet ben arrived…
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