In a Western Mining Camp
A gentleman intorested in gold and silver mining writes:—"Assayers are the common butt in all mining camps, and, as a rule, I believe, they 'get it in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining & the mines, 1910
502 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 26
Special Notes for Special Readers. Has Australia a Heart of Gold?
If the Ar[?]tunga Gold Field is really "hills of gold" as described by the per[?]vid correspondent of the Daily Mail, London. It will exercise a very important influence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Black Damp" 900 Miners Cease Work. in a Whitehaven Colliery. London
As a sequel to the recent horrible disaster by explosion in the Wellington Colliery, at Wellington 900 miners employed in the pit adjoining the ill-fated colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whitehaen Colliery Disaster
Generous contributions have been received, towards the fund formed for the relief of sufferers from the recent disaster in the Wellington Colliery, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hand Drills in Mines Transvaal Government's Prize White and Native Labor Contrasted. London
The prize of £3000 offered by the Transvaal Government for the most effective hand drill for mining purpose has been divided between the Holman and Saskol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining News
At the Great Northern Extended Consols (Rutherglen) they are opening up new ground which continues to give payable prospects. The south drive was in good…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold for Sawdust Waste
It has remained for far-away Norway to furnish the timber merchants of the world with an object lesson in the utilisation of waste, and give the nations a hint…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Colliery Disaster. Panic at Whitehaven. Men Cease Work. London, May 28
The explosion of firedamp in the White haven Colliery, which was attended by great loss of life, has alarmed the men employed in an adjoining pit. These men,…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Wanted a Gold Mine. to Buy a Machinery Plant for Culcairn
At the meeting of the Culeairn Shire Council on Thursday, Mr. J. J. Greene, the newly appointed engineer, submitted a road for a comprehensive road making…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Colliery Combine
Messrs. Minter and Simpson, solicitors, accepted service this afternoon of writs issued against the Associated Colliery Proprietors for an alleged, restraint of trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion in a Coal Bunker
An explosion occurred on board H.M.S. Victorious, 14,900 tons, yesterday, which might have been attended with disastrous consequences. The battleship was lying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pennsylvania Coal Strike
The 12,000 coal miners who hare been oat on shake at Scranton, Pennsylvania, for higher wages and better conditions of labor, hare decided to return to work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Libelling a Mining Expert
John Chambers, a mining expert, claimed the sum of £1000 as damages in a suit for libel heard to-day, from Henry Trueman, one of the directors of the Tooloon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Little Billabong Goldfield
Forsythe and party have completed a crushing at the battery lately erected on the field, and it" turned out very satisfactory. They are now crushing about 50 tons channel is 6ft. wide, confined between two smooth walls of sandstone and slate. In this channel several rich leaders are showing strongly, giving every indication as…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Guarding a Million. the Federal Gold Reserve
If Prime Minister Fisher carries out his intention of having a note issue for the Commonwealth it will be necessary for the Federal Government to have a gold reserve of at least…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Hardie's Retort. zHY the Miners Had to Die
Mr. Keir Hardie has made a stinging retort. He declares he adheres to his statement that in all probability when it was decided to wall up the mine over 200…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cablegrams Whitehaven Disaster Fire Swept Pit Re-opened. Search for the Bodies of the Miners. London
The Wellington, pit at Whitehaven, the mouth of which, owing to a fire last month, was bricked up in order to quench the flames, thus leaving 133 miners to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outward Religious Symbols. Three Miners Killed
The Vatican authorities have protested against thee Royal Order recently issued at Madrid, authorising the use by Non-Catholic Churches of outward symbols of their A sad mining accident is reported from Tyldesley, Lancashire. Four miners were working together in a colliery, when a portion of the roof fell on one of them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Whitehaven Colliery Disaster
The fund established by the Rand "Daily Mail" (Johannesburg) in aid of the sufferers by the Whitehaven Colliery disaster has now reached a total of £1100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident in a Mine. London, June 11
Great alarm was caused among the inhabitants of Gelsenkirchen, a mining town of Westphalia, in Prussia, on Friday, by a violent earth tremor. It was believed that…
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