Small Mines Meeting of Vigilance Committee
The Vigilance Committee recently formed at Cessnock for the purpose of dealing with the small mines question met in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1936
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No Suspension Maitland Deputies' Award Colliery Owners' Application Fails
The Industrial Commission comprising Justices Cantor, Webb, and Ferguson, on Tuesday last, dismissed an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oil From Coal Sir David Rivett's Investigations
The Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Sir David Rivett), who has been abroad for nearly six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Shipments Newcastle Exports
The total quantity of coal, Including bunkers, exported from Newcastle this week to places beyond the State was 59,552 tons, compared with 57,613 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Overtime Rates Mining Mechanics
The dispute at South Bulll Colliery In respect to the payment of overtime rates to mechanics employed working on Saturday afternoons and Sundays…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Oil From Coal Council Newcastle Meeting Concern Possible Change of Sites
Concern was expressed at a meeting last night of the Northern District Oil from Coal Council regarding the possibility of a change of site from Northern New South Wales to Victoria for the projected Oil from Coal plant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hebburn Mines
Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2 Collieries worked to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oil From Coal
When the suggestion was made last week that it was possible the Federal Government might favor Gippsland, Victoria, as a site for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extraction of Oil From Coal Claims for Victoria Cause Alarm
Expressing concern at statements made in favour of the extraction of oil from Victorian brown coal, the Northern District…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aberdare Extended Colliery
Owing to a dispute concerning a working place, Aberdare Extended Colliery was idle yesterday. The colliery resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abermain Miners' Picnic
In their first picnic held for ten years, the Abermain miners were favored with glorious weather on Saturday last, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elrington Miners' Smoko (Contributed.)
A grand smoko was hold the Rugby league rooms on Saturday night, under the auspicies of the committee of Elrington Miners' Lodge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Modern Gold Digger Enjoys Radio and Morning Shower
If gold prospectors have shades, the mighty battalion of bygone days that hover around the diggings at Ballarat must have been intrigued on a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search for Gold in N.Z. WELLINGTON, N.Z.
Forty men will be employed for six months in an immediate Investigation of the auriferous belt in the neighbor-hood of Reefton, in the north-west of…
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Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries worked today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall of Coal Cessnock
Walter Lucas, 57, of Hall-street, Cessnock, a miner at Eirington collery was admitted to hospital to-day with a lacerated scalp caused by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Trade Brisk Astle
A[?] figures released at Newcastle [?]stom-house, the quantity of coal shipped to places beyond the State was 235,502 tons, valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Exports Newcastle
Coal export to all sources from Newcastle for the first elevon months of 1980 total nearly 2,500,000 tons, an increase of 44,880 tons over shipments…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Dump Fire Catherine Hill Bay
Fire which broke out in a small coal dump at Wallarah colliery on Wednesday morning now threatens the main dump, containing thousands of tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Miners Trapped by Fire One Conveyed to Hospital
While working in a shaft at Tingha two young miners found that the top of the shaft, which was timbered with stringy barley, was blazing. The lads…
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