Technical Education for Goal Miners
Recognising the claim of the coal-mining community to participate in the advantages of technical education (says an inspired paragraph in the Sydney papers), the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1891
77 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 4
Strike of Boys at Bulli Colliery
A peculiar complication has arisen at the old Bulli colliery, which demonstrates how delicate an organism is the union of drivers and wheelers, and how great difficulties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal in South Australia
The bore at Leigh's Creek, South Australia (says the Mining Standard), is down about 1450ft. Progress has been much slower lately, probably on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Thrilling Story. Entombed for Nineteen Days.—four Miners Rescued From Death
THE following sensational account of the wonderful rescue of four miners from a flooded coal mine is given in the New York papers:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metropolitan Coal Company
The Metropolitan Coal Company loaded their first steamer this week. This was done at Darling Harbor, where two of the Government cranes have been erected for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas at South Bulli Colliery
That treacherous, invisible, and insidious foe of the miner, gas, which left such a deadly record at the Bulli mine in 1887, has (says the Bull Times) a [?] made its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal on the Clarence and Richmond Rivers
A reporter of the Evening News writing of the Grafton district, has the following on the recent discovery of coal there:— Near a place called Ooraki, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Curlewis Colliery Dispute
Things seem to be again mixed at the Curlewis Colliery at Tamworth (says the Newcastle Herald.) Mr. Thomas Dix, the general secretary of the association, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Coal Used for the Manufacture of Briquettes
The manufacture of briquettes from the Victorian coal is a subject which is touched upon in a report furnished by Mr. J. Cosmo Newberry to the Mining Department…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Men Dashed to the Bottom of a Mine Shaft
A distressing mining accident is reported from Ashland (Pa.) The miners employed in the Locust Gap Colliery were alarmed by hearing a loud crash in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The South Australian Coal Discovery. Adelaide
The speculative section of the community here has been on the tip-toe of expectation, and at the same time the steadygoing residuum has been much interested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal in Western Australia
The Government Resident, reporting in a coal discovery at Collie River, states that the seams already discovered are sufficiently good ro encourage further prospecting. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Export of Australian Coal
THE letter from Mr. John Young , which appeared in our Saturday's issue (says the Sydney Morning Herald) throws further light on a very grave question…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike of Coal-lumpers
A difficulty which resulted in a temporary suspension of loading operations occurred on board the ship County of Flint on Friday evening. The steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal in India
THE production of coal in India during the year 18[?]0 shows a large increase over the output of 1880, and this increase is general throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Enginemen's Association
According to arrangement made by the Trades and Labor Council, Messrs. W. A. Murphy, M.P. for Balmain, and J. B. Nicholson, senior member for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Important Motion. National Insurance for Miners
Notices of motion at the opening of a session are simply to be regarded as the planting of the acorn which may if circumstances are favorable, develop into a mighty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strike of Coal Lumpers
When the steam collier Kanahooka went alongside the steamer Damascus on Wednesday evening last to deliver a cargo of coal, the union coal lumpers on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Piece of Gold
[Francois Coppee, who was born in January, 1842, is known chiefly as a poet, and is, indeed, considered by some critics as the greatest poet now alive in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A National Mining Insurance Fund
Mr. N. Melville, M.P., and Chairman of Committees in the Assembly, has addressed the following circular to the various mining lodges in this and other district:—…
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