A Colliery Disaster Cage Falls Down a Pit. London
A serious catastrophe occurred at the naval colliery at Pen-y Graig in Glamor-ganshire, wales. While a cage containing 30 men was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1909
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A Mine Flooded
An overflow of water from an unused shaft flooded the Dombrevo mine near Somowice. Twenty-six miners who were at work were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South African Records Exports of Gold and Maize. London
According to "The Standard," South Africa is shipping to Europe between new and December 200,000 tons of maize. These figures, if correct, constitute a record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Flooded Polish Mine Twenty-two Miners Saved. London
The loss of life resulting from the flooding of the Dombrove mine at Sosnowiee, in Poland, with water from an unused shaft, by which 20 miners were entombed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fortunes' in Impalpable Gold
In the opinion of the Victorian Government director of geology (Mr. Dunno) there is as much impalpably fine gold left in the silt all the alluvial gold hitherts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Accident. Six Miners Killed. London, August 28
A disastrous colliery accident took place at the naval colliery, Penygraig, in "Wales. Thirty miners were descending by a cage, when the cable broke, and the cage fell…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →New Bethanga Gold Mines Satisfactory Results at the Treatment Plant
The large Edwards Duplex furnace installed at the New Bethanga mines is giving a highly satisfactory roast, and its capacity exceeds the estimate of the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →INTERCOLONIAL. Tanami Gold Find
The South Australian Government Geologist (Mr. H. Y. L. Brown) has returned to Adelaide from a visit to the Tanami new gold discovery, in the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Mi[?]ing Disaster. Polish Mine Flooded. London, August 30
A mining disaster is reported from Sosnowice, in Russian Poland. The Dombrovo mine was flooded with water from a disued shaft, and 20 men were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →South African Trade. Gold and Corn. London, August 29
The largest shipment of gold ever sent from South Africa arrived at Southampton on Saturday by the steamer Kildonan Castle. Its total value was 1,143,271…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →New South Wales. Collapse of a Coal Hoist. Sydney
The M'Myler Coal Hoist at Garrington, which was recently condemned by the Royal Commission appointed to report upon it, collapsed this morning while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Miming Royal Commission. Newcastle
The royal commission which had been appointed to take evidence regarding the discontent and frequent disputes in the coal mining trade, did not sit to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Testing a Floating Mine Three Men Blown to Pieces. London
A disaster occurred in the river Danube yesterday during the trail of a new type of floating mine. This mine had been invented by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sleeping on Gold
The practise of hiding money away in all manner of out-of-the way corners is by no means modern. In the old days, according to Gleaning's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Risks of Gold Buying
A grim record of the dangers to which gold miners are exposed is contained in the archives at the Mines Department Victoria. During the iiast 35 years 3536…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →INTERCOLONIAL. The Tanami Gold Rush
The Adelaide "Chronicle" writes:—The Government are wise in doing all in their power to render accessible the routes to far-away Tanami. At present the most…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →New South Wales. Coal-lumper's Fatal Fall. Sydney
While a coal-lumper named John Hanson, 17 years of age, was unloading the collier Bellambl at Miller's Point this morning, he fell down the hold, a distance of 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Mining Grants
The Victorian Minister for Mines (Mr M'Bride) proposes to make an alteration in the methods by which State grants are made to mining companies, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supposed Stolen Gold. Two Daylight Arrests
Constables Kennedy, of Chiltern, and Manfield, of Rutherglen, have for months past known that gold was being systematically stolen from alluvial, claims in the…
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