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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Mining & the mines
18 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers
At Friday council meeting the following discussion ensued:—The President: I have the honor of reporting that on December 21st ult. their…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The vacuum cleaning of coal mines is a new idea for preventing risk from dust, to which explosions are often due. An electrical firm has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, — Alderman Pain asks" What docs it cost to cart coal to the gas wo[?]ks?" Some questions now-a-days seem to take a fortnight or longer to answer. For instance,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Her mme in the church register was Elimore Balley, but the "Gold Ladye" was such & fitting title that her really true name was quite discarded in favour of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"[?] was resolved at yesterday's meeting of the Court of Common Council that his Majesty the Cham of Tartary be invited to a dejeuner at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are so accustomed to think of the recesses of the earth as "cool depths," especially in hot weather, that it is curious to read of the intense heat experienced in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →If anyone could be suddenly transported back through the ages, and placed in a forest during the period when coal was being formed upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George Lackaday always made a point of walking home from the cay when the evening, or rather the afternoon, was fine. So that if he left his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The furnaces of the world are now burning: about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has refused leave to appeal in the cases, Wollondilly Council, New South Wales v. Bartlett, and same v. Colon Peak…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About fifteen years ago, Dr. John Scott Haldane, who had studied conditions in Cornish colleries, suggested that canaries could be used with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What is said to be the strangest period through which this earth has passed is the one that was responsible for the formation of coal. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A series of amazing robberies are reported from Nevada, where a hundred niners in the goidfields have been looting several mines and steailng large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The experiments with submerged coal which commenced at Portsmouth in 1992 have been resumed. In May, 1903, live crates of coal, each holding two tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The remarkable increase in the world's Sold production in the last ten years has given ground for much speculation of what will be the result if the same ratio of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The fact that oil can be used for the purpose of saving filings and other small particles of gold and other precious metals, in jewellers' shops,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Morris and Co's auction room, Bowral, is to be seen a most interesting piece of mechanical work in miniature. It is a model of a gold mine in actual working. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the pocketless age the reign of the hand-bag continues (says the "Daily Telegraph"). But the hand-bag of to-day is not extravagant in size;…
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