State Ownership of Mines
The Scottish. Miners' Conference has resolved that State ownership and control of mines includes the ownership of the instruments of all material, production…
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352 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 18
Bolton Colliery Disdisaster Effect of Modern Legislation. London
The death roll in connection with Hie recent Hulton Colliery explosion has been fixed at 344. A "Daily Mail" correspondent states that the claims of the relatives of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Water Makes Gold. Object Lesson at Mildura
Mr H. Jacob, of Irymple, near Mildura, is a successful irrigator who strongly supports Mr Elwood Mead's contention as to the productiveness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Welsh Mining Dispute
Six thousand strikers employed in the Aberdare Valley are resuming work in accordance with their recent resolution to go back after Christmas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Fatalities
On Monday night there was a deplorable accident oh the Golden Horseshoe mine (W.A.). George Barlow, Timothy Murphy, and Sam Bosandilah were working in a…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Colliery Explosion. Eight Men Entombed. Vancouver, January 4
An explosion occurred yesterday in a mine owned by the Neva Scotia Steel Company, near Sydney. Eight men were entombed, but two were subsequently…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Nine Tons of Gold
No sooner had the Commonwealth Treasury opened on Thursday last than further additions were received to the gold reserve which is being built up against the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Colliery Disaster. 203 Bodies Recovered. Cause of the Explosion. London, December 29
The work of recovering the bodies of the miners who were entombed by an explosion in the Hulton colliery at Bolton is proceeding. When the accident occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Right to Work. Scottish Miners' Demands. London, December 30
The Scottish Minors' Conference, which is holding its animal session, yesterday agreed to a resolution asserting the right of unemployed to have work provided by…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Mining
At Clear Greek, on behalf of the Relay Gold Alining Company, 150 ions of seconds and 50 tons of firsts of sand were cyanided, and yielded 18oz; also 450 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fall of Earth in a Mine
A fall of earth occurred at a mine near Mullam, Idaho, which buried nine persons. A rescue party worked for twenty hours, and was eventually successful in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolton Colliery Disaster
The fund started for the relief of the relatives of the miners lost in the Pretoria pit at Bolton closed on Saturday. The amount subscribed was £100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Sulphur Mine. Seven Men Suffocated. Rome
A disastrous fire occurred on Satunday in a sulphur mine at Tuoro, a village on the north shore of Lake Trasimeno, in the Italian province of Perugia. Seven miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News Landslide at Copper Mine. Madrid
A landslide, which had serious results, has occurred at a copper mine at Rio Tinto, a town three miles north-east of Oporto. Fire people were killed and five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welsh Colliery Trouble Rioters Attack Strike Breakers. London
The troubles in the South Welsh collieries have to some extent been unexpectedly renewed. On the eve of the departure of the London police from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Entombed in a Mine. Rescuers' Splendid Work. Vancouver January 7
Splendid work was done by a band of rescuers in saving nine men who were entombed by a fall of stone in a mine near Mullah. They worked for 20 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Mining Disasters. Overcome by Fumes. Budapest, January 8
A disastrous fire has occurred in a sulphur mine at Turo, in Hungary. Seven miners were suffocated…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →A Goldfield on Hudson Bay
Large quantities of English and Canadian capital are flowing into the Hudson Bay Territory for the purchase of mining claims on the new goldefied at Porcupine Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Tunnel Mine Flooded
The Stranger's Greek at Walhalla is in heavy flood, but oaring to the steep fall the water has been carried off without serious damage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electricity in N.s.w. Col-lieries. '
Mr. Kelberton Scott read a paper be-fore the Mining Electrical Engineers' Association on the use of electricity in New South Wales collieries. He urged that…
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