Struck by Fall of Coal
On Saturday morning Archibald Durie, 63, miner, employed at Aberdare Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital with a…
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Mining & the mines, 1936
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Stop Press Gold Shares Boom
As a result of a sharp rise in the price of the metal following the devaluation of the franc, gold shares were in keen demand on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Higher Gold Prices SYDNEY
The Commonwealth Bank has increased the price of fine gold by 4/4 to £8/15/1 an ounce, so as to bring it into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Production Figures for N.S.W. SYDNEY
According to figures released by the department of Mines, the production of native gold of New South Wales origin for the month of August was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Price of Gold Higher. Effect of Kise in Sterling. Sydney
To conform with the increased sterling price, the Commonwealth Bank has raised the price of fine gold by 4/4 in Australian currency to £8/15/1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dilly-dallying with Oil From Coal Is Lyons Government Trying to Shelve Question?
HOW MUCH LONGER is the Lyons Government going to dilly- i dally with the all-important question of the establishment of works for the extraction of oil from coal in Australia? For some time past there has been a growing suspicion that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Go Home Cessnock
Stanford Main No. 2 colliery was idle to-day owing to the manager declining to put a casual wheeler on in the place of the wheeler who was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Search Lasseter's Reef Experts Flouted
Despite the fact that experts have stated Lassetor's Reef is a myth, three men do not think so. They have left Adelaide to search for the much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mines
Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries were working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners Entombed Calcutta, September 30
One hundred miners have been entombed in the Niluripathra colliery, at Jhaira (Rajaputana), as the result of a aubsidence of a large section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Ulterior Motives Kept Colliery idle" Owners Charge Aberdare Central Inquiry Federation's Demands
The statement that the colliery had been kept idle merely for an industrial purpose, was made by Mr. C. M. McDonald, secretary of the Northern Colliery Owners' Association, addressing the Commissioner wher the inquiry into the safety or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners on Strike
A mass meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union at Broken Hill decided that no work should be done along the line of lode until the South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Danger Colliery Residence NEWCASTLE
A bush fire which broke out this afternoon near Stockrington Colliery is reported to be endangering the manager's house. Weat [?]end Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Price of Gold
The price for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint last week was fixed by the Commonwealth Bank on Tuesday at £8/15…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mines Idle No Settlement Move
All the mines were idle and neither side in the mining dispute made a move for a settlement yesterday. The men are firm in their contention that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Protest Allowance for Dirt CESSNOCK
Between 350 and 400 men are affected by a dispute at the Eirington colliery, over the suspension of two miners for two days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Start Hot Favorite Gold Rod for Derby Talking and Custos to Fill Places
There will be no fancy price on offer about God Rod for the A.J.C. Derby, to be run to-morrow. The Chief Ruler colt has so far done all that has been asked of him, and although many good judges think that the mile and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Everything Points To the Marne Winning The Epsom Gay Lover May Be The Danger Gold Rod Again Derby Looks All Over Silver Ring at F.A.
With eight pounds less than he carried to victory in Tattersall's Tramway Handicap. in which he hung on well at the end of the seven furlongs, figures point to The Marne, the Epsom favorite, winning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Export Newcastle Shipments
Coal shipped from Newcastle during September to places beyond the State as cargo and bunkers amounted to 228,343 tons, valued at £190,344. For…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Production Statistician's Returns
A statement issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) shows that the production of gold in Australia for the month of August,…
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