Mount Pleasant Colliery
As the following Special Rule's which have been framed and sanctioned for the guidance of miners and other employees in connection with the above Colliery, will be of interest to the…
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Mining & the mines, 1877
19 stories in Illawarra's papers
Professor Tichborne on Coal Gas
A lecture was delivered on "Coal Gas and its application to House Lighting," in the theatre of the Royal Dublin Society. Professor J. Emerson Reynolds presided…
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On the 14th February the last truck-load of dirt was hauled up at the London Mine, Thames, and four, men were waiting on the brace to descend to relieve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Mining in Northern China
In his just published Report to the Foreign Office on the trade of Newchwang, in Northern China, in 1875, Mr. Thomas Adkins, her Majesty's Consul at that port,…
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The following Reports of the Geological Surveyor and Inspector of Coal Mines, as to the probable depth at which workable coal would be obtained in the…
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The inquest on the bodies of the five men who lost their lives by the inundation of the Tynewydd pit was concluded on May 17. Mr. Pickard, who represented…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Assessment of a Gold Paddock in the Mudgee District
The most interesting appeal case heard in connection with the Cudgegong Council batch (says the Independent) was that relating to the assessment of the Log Paddock. The valuers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"How to Supply Coal to Sydney at Ten Shillings per Ton"
In a letter appearing in a recent issue of the 'Herald,' from Mr. John Usher, jun., of Woollahra, on the coal fields of New South Wales and Great Britain, that gentleman made the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wages and Earnings. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—Four correspondent "Collier," in your issue of last Tuesday, asks where I got my information about miners' wages, &c. I beg to inform him that it was from the miners and from those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bulli Coal Company
The following report was laid before the halfyearly meeting, held on Tuesday last, and adopted on motion by the Chairman, Mr. G. W. Allen:— 1. The sales of coal show an increase on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. O-borne Wallsend Coal Company
As mining matters are engaging some general attention in this district at the present time, the following Special Rules and Regulations now adopted in connection with the management of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Coal Cannot be Delivered in Sydney at 10s. per Ton. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—Mr. Biggar evidently meant in your issue of the 2nd instant, in replying to "Collier" and myself, to kill two birds with the one stone, and I have no doubt he believes both to be powerless in…
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A highly interesting inquiry was held under authority of a Royal Commission appointed in the spring of 1875, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal-cliff Coal Mining Company
It is at all times a matter of intense satisfaction to have to record the progress of mining enterprise and operations in Illawarra, which more than any other spot in this hemisphere is destined to become…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exciting Scene in a Mine. (From Correspondent of the Olago Daily Times.)
An exciting scene occurred at the Caledonian mine, Thames, on the 17th September. At half past 9 it became reported that gas had burst into the Caledonian shaft, smothering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Discovery at the Clyde River
Mr. Charles De Boos, Gold Warden for Braidwood, reports as follows to the Minister for Mines :— Warden's Office, Braidwood, October 19…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Colliery Explosion at Blantyre. London, October 27
At the colliery explosion at Blantyre 219 persons perished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"To the Consumers of Coal."
SIR,—In your issue of to-day is an advertisement under the above heading, and signed " G. Bullen," in which the advertiser informs the public that he is about to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News by the Last Mail. Terrible Colliery Accident. Loss of 200 Lives
On Monday, Oct. 22, an explosion, perhaps the most disastrous in the history of coal-mining in Scotland, occurred at the village of High Blantyre, about eight miles…
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