Extraordinary Colliery Accident
A colliery accident happened at Aberrant, Aberdare, resulting in the entombment of 340 men. The winding gear broke, with the result that an ascending cage laden with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1888
19 stories in Mid North Coast's papers
Quartz Mining
The Deep Creek gold and mineral field is distant about 4 miles north of Deep Creek, being 9 miles from Nambucca Heads and 6 miles from Bellinger Heads—or distant from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Explosion
A terrible explosion recently took place at St. Helen’s Colliery, Workington, Cumberland. The pit took fire while a shot was being fired. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Discovery 63 miles from Taree
It having become known in this district that payable gold had been discovered about 75 miles from Taree, at a place above what is known as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Miners' Strike
DURING the last week great excitement has prevailed in this and the other colonies, on account of the miners in the Newcastle district having signified their intention to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extracting Gold from Refractory Ores
THE European Mail says:—A new process for the recovery of gold from refractory ores has been patented by the assistant to the Professor of Chemistry at the University of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Home. Gold and Silver
Along her father's field they strayed All flecked with cowslips yellow, A little dainty gold-haired maid, A sturdy nine-year fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Meeting
A meeting was held at the School of Arts, Kempsey, on Monday night, to bring under the notice of the Minister of Mines, the claims of the district in the prospecting vote,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle Difficulty Miners Struck Work
The Newcastle miners withdrew their tools from the pits at four o'clock. The strike has therefore commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Department of Mines, Stock Branch, Sydney, August 10, 1888
Gentlemen,—Referring to a letter form Mr. A. E. Pountney, secretary to the Progress Committee, for Mines on the 10th ultimo, asking that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal for the Highlands
The following letter, which we publish verbatim et literalim, was received by a coal merchant in Glasgow awhile since:-- "Sur…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Minister for Mines
BEFORE the re-assembling of Parliament, the Minister for Mines intends to pay a visit to Tamworth, and he will then go…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Upper Manning Goldfield
THE new diggings at the Upper Manning are still progressing, though not much concerning them has been made public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners' Strike. No Hope of a Settlement. Sydney, Friday, 4 p.m
There is now every prospect of the strike at Newcastle being indefinitely prolonged, and coal shores have fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Win Gold
A vain man's motto is "Win gold and wear it." A generous man's "Win gold and share it." a miser's "Win gold and spare it." A profligate's "Win gold and spend it."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grains of Gold
Solitude in the audience chamber of God. Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the multitude. Diffidence is, perhaps, quite as often the child of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Miners' Strike Settled. Work to Commence on Monday. Sydney, Friday, 1 p.m
THE Minmi miners have signed the Newcastle district agreement, and work at all the mines will be commenced on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Poetry. That Old Sweetheart of Mine
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fish of Gold That Sang
It way a merry fisher's wife--Her baby her breast--Looked out to sea, with love and glee, When the sun went down the west…
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