Firedamp Explosion. KILLS 65 MINERS. London, March 15
A terrible colliery disaster has occurred In Alsace-Lorraine. Through an explosion of firedamp in the Klein-Rosselu colliery 65 miners' were killed outright, and 12…
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Dashed to Death. Twenty-two Miners Killed. London, March 17
An appalling accident, resulting in the death of more than a score of miners, has occurred at a Prussian colliery. At the Saint Johann coal mine, in Rhenish…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Serious Mining Accident. a Fall of Earth
News was convoyed to Rutherglen early on Tuesday morning (says the " Miner") that a well-known miner named George Harris had been nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatality
Further particulars are to hand regarding the fatal raining accident that befell a man named George Harris at the Great Southern Mine near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHILTERN. Saturday. MINING
The Golden Bar Extended cleaned up to-day for the magnificent yield of 5loz. 6dwts. free gold from 40 tons of stone, an average of nearly loz…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gas Replaces Coal. New Motive Power For, Battleships. London
The well-known engineering and ship constructing firm of Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, announce an important invention in connection with the motive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GERMANTON. Monday. Dora Dora Tin Mines
For a two-months' run the Mount Pleasant Tin fining Co. cleaned up 7½ tons of tin and the Talmalmo 4½ tons. If the water holds out the next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Claim Against a Mining Co
Mr. Justice Backhouse to-day delivered judgment in the suit in which Joseph Johns sued the Rand Gold Mines for the recovery of £30 for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining at Lobb's Hole
According to the Adelong "Argus," a substantial deposit has been paid to Messrs. Reakman and Frostram by a city syndicate for the purchase of their copper mine at Lobb's Hole, and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A Floating Coal Mine
Most people would think, naturally enough, that the obvious way to discharge coal would be from the top. But, nowadays, it is exactly the reverse; the…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →The Mining Act
The departmental board detailed to draft the regulations under the Mining Act passed last session is making good progress (according to a Sydney report). The work…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Dynamite Explosion. Fifty-four Miners Killed. London, March 30
Through a mysterious explosion of dynamite a terrible accident occurred yesterday at the Driefontein Consolidated mine, on the Rand. While the miners…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Will Gold Decline in Value
No. Gold has always increased in value with the increase wealth because, as Adam Smith points out, the advancing civilisation which wealth fosters demands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stealing Gold
A peculiar case was before the court to-day when a jeweller named Arthur Watson and his wife were charged with stealing about £50 worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lost Mines of Mexico
The murder of two American prospectors in the Slerra Madre Mountains, state of Sonora Mexico by a band of Yaqul Indians has prevented…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CHILTERN. Thursday. MINING
Splendid stone showing gold [?] is now being got at the south end of the 400 feet level at the Golden Bar Extended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales. (By Telegraph). SYDNEY, Thursday. Fatal Mining Accident
A fatal mining accident occurred at Broken Hill to-day. A fall of rock took place in the Block mine and a miner named Patrick Devitt was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in a COLLIERy. Miners Rescued WITh DIFFICULTY
A great fire occurred at the pit-head of the Dodsworth Colliery at Bamsley, in South Yorkshire. The mine to the number of 160 were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight Hours Labour. in American Coal Mines. Impossibility of the Principle Urged
Mr. A. F. Pease, a well-known American ironmaster, speaking on behalf of the Cleveland (Ohio) Ironmasters' Association before the American Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Scotch Coal Combine
A coal combine has been, formed with a capital of £1,250,000. to control the output of the principal collieries in East Midlothian…
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