Mining Slackness Export Trade Diminishing at Alarming Rate
Mr. C. M. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Collieries Association. said that, in view of the unprecedented. slackness of trade in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1928
1,537 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 77
Hebburn Collieries
A combined meeting of the Heburn No. 1, Hebburn No. 2 and Elrington Miners' Lodges was held at Weston on Sunday afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Collieries. Work for Fortnightly Pay
Ten days constituted full-time at the collieries in the northern district, for the fortnight, one day being lost through the holiday. For…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Idle Colliery. Miner Without a Mate. Cessnock
Because there is a miner at Aberdare Extended Colliery, whom nobody, will' accept as a mate, the mine is idle to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheeler Killed. at Ayrfield Colliery. Fell 250 Feet
Edward Killer, 21, a wheeler employed at Ayrfield No. 1 Colliery, was killed shortly after 9 o'clock this morning through falling down the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Test Case Pending. Treatment of Injured Miners. Hospital Payments. Cessnock
Owing to the difficulty experienced by Cessnack District Hospital in securing settlement of claims for treatment of compensation cases under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Industry. an Interesting Debate
The first meeting of the year of St. John's Debating Society, was well attended and much interest was displayed in the debate set down for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Council. Meeting in Sydney. Northern Executive Ballot
At a meeting of the council of the Miners' Federation, it was decided to reject the appeal lodged by Mr. R. Prideaux against the decision of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Subsidence. Man Killed, Others Injured. Capetown, January 16
A serious subsidence occurred at the Witwatersrand gold mine's Conor shaft this morning, when three stations at the shaft fell in almost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Future of Coal. Scientific Advance. Oil and Residual Fuel
"We are really on the threshold of a new era. We are beyond the experimental stage in obtaining oil from coal, and next year will reveal real…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hullabaloo at Hebburn No. 2 Mine Employee Attacked By Work-mates Ugly Situation-manager Draws Revolver
Something like a panic was to-day, when an employee named several of his work-mates. An ugly situation developed, and the manager of the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Process. Russian's Invention. Oil, Etc., From Coal. Its Importance to Australia. London, Jan. 11
The first public demonstration of the Dvorkovitz system of coal carbonisation was given at Slough. The Australian Press Association learns that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elrington Colliery
Sinking operations were resumed at Elrington on Monday, in accordance with the decision of the three combined lodges at Weston on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Greta Colliery
The machinery is being removed from South Greta Colliery and assembled on top in preparation for the auction sale on Wednesday next. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Employees' Wages
When South Greta colliery ceased operations on August 23 last, there was an amount of nearly £3000 due to the employees in wages. The men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Coal Company
Newcastle Coal-mining Company, Ltd., with receipts of £25,477, and working expenses of £27,709, showed a loss for the six months ended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil Displacing Coal
The rapid increase in the tonnage of shipping propelled by oil, either as fuel for steam boilers or for internal combustion engines, has led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All Quiet. Happenings at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery. "Reports Exaggerated."
Everything was quiet at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery to-day. The employee in regard to whom the trouble occurred was put on the another job…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Guinea Gold. Another Valuable Shipment. Sydney
The steamer Monboro, which arrived at Sydney to-day from New Guinea, brought gold valued at £30,000…
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