A Million Pounds in Gold!
"All in gold, please!" These are words heard many times a day by the cashier of the bank, on presentation of a cheque. And in this instance they were…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Mining & the mines, 1912
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Mining Discovery at Wandiligong
Old residents of the Upper Ovens district will be interested in the news of a piece of good fortune that has befallen a syndicate in the Bright district. Fifty years ago one…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Germany Buying Largely of Coal
London newspapers state that Germans are inquiring at Cardiff with a view of placing a limitless order for coal for immediate delivery in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Europe Ablaze. Complications over the Bathans The Great Powers Arming. Austria Mobilising. Germany Buying Coal Effete Turkey Still Suffering Defeat. Threat to Massacre All Christians in Constantinople. the Powers Alarmed. European Complications. London
The war news to-day is of a most alarming nature, going to show, as it does, that all the Powers and the United States are becoming thoroughly alarmed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Colliery Strike
The Neath colliery at Newcastle was idle to-day, owing to a disagreement about the method of working a top fly of coal. On Monday two miners went home rather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Country Edition. The following appeared in our Country edition on Wednesday :— the Waihi Mining Trouble. Fierce Battle between the Strikers and Mine Workers. Revolvers and Gelignite Used. Many Persons Injured. Sydney
Following wild scenes at Waihi, N.Z., yesterday the workers at the mine marched to the Union Hall this morning, where a fierce battle was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stoppages in Coal Mines. on Paltry Excuses. Newcastle
A serious position has been created by repeated stoppages at the different collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Mining Accident
Word was received in Corowa on Wednesday of a sad accident which happened at the Great Southern mine Rutherglon. Very few particulars are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tin Mining
At one time the mining population was considered the shifting population, but tills certainly does not obtain at Eskdale. The mining industry we could least spare,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flooding North Lyell Mine. Zeehan
A large volume of water continues to enter the mine workings, the present rain being diverted in every possible way towards flooding the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wages of Coal Miners. London
A settlement has been reached in connection with the wages question in the Northumberland coal mining industry. The coal owners and [?] have now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion in Mine. 24 Men Reported Killed. Paris
A serious mining disaster has occurred at St.Martin-de-Valgalgues, a mining village in the Gard Department. An explosion of carbonic acid gas took…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rich Gold Find. Forty Ounces to the Ton. Grafton
There has been a rich find of gold at Woolgoolga, in a creek two miles from where the main road crosses it. A quantity of stone dollied has returned not less than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Stealing
Two miners named William Morgan James and Alfred Laws were arrested on a charge of gold stealing m rather unusual circumstances, at the Virginia mine,…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Inter-state. Ardlethan Tin Mines
Warden James dealt with 64 applications in the Warden's Court at Ardlethan, 27 areas being allotted, most of them being in the vicinity of the tin mines at…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Gold in New Guinea
Considerable excitement has been caused in Woodlark Island by the discovery of gold in large quantities. In a despatch to the Minister for External Affairs, dated…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Miners Earn 19/6 a Day
About a sovereign a day in wages fails to attract miners to aid the Broken Hill mining companies, which, just now, are anxious to maintain large outputs in order to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Walwa Tin Mine. (Communicated)
The price of tin having reached the highest value yet known, viz., £230 a ton, on account of the mines in the Malay Peninsula, which finds the bulk of the world's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mt. Lyell Mine Tragedy. Recovering a Body. Queenstown
The main shaft and engine winze of the North Dyell mine have been uncovered fer the purpose of giving every chance for the fumes to escape. The shaft is entirely free…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Undiscovered Coal
Professor W. Boyd Dawkins recently gave evidence before the Coal Commission as to the existence of workable coal in south-eastern England. His investigations…
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