Minimum Wage in Mines
The Court of Appeal has decided that the Minimum Wage in Coal Mines Act does not empower the joint district boards to ascertain the minimum wage earned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining & the mines, 1913
318 stories in Murray's papers · page 16 of 16
Squandered Gold. £200,000 Spent on a Bedroom
If you want to see what money can do, you should pay a visit to that mile of millionaires’ mansions, New York’s Fifth Avenue, where £20,000,000 has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Industrial Turmoil. 30,000 Miners Idle. London
The number of workers thrown idle by the railway strike in South Wales and the stoppage of the collieries is growing steadily. There are now 30,000 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial Turmoil. Dublin Strike and Miners' Federation. London
The executive of the Miners' Federation states that district reports decline to call a general strike to assist the Dublin strikers, but approve of increased…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Gable News. Great Cobar Mine. London
Mr. Harvey, a director, reports having visited the Great Cobar mine. He recommends the reorganisation of the whole staff, and that a change in the general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welsh Colliery Disaster. Heartrending Scenes
The terrible colliery disaster at the Senghenydd pit on Tuesday, 14th October, by which 428 miners lost their lives, was attended by many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shocking Mine Disaster. Cage Falls 950 Feet. Seven Men Killed. Vienna
A shocking mine disaster occurred on Saturday at Erna. A cage in a local pit broke away, and fell a distance of 950 feet to the bottom…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Biggest Diamond in the World. Rival to Cullinan Found in Same Mine
The second largest diamond in the world has ben in the Premier' Mine Transvaal. According to a report from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold at Tallandoon. a Handsome Xmas Box
A piece of stone weighing 51 ounces in the rough, and which, when treated, returned 46 ounces of smelted gold, was taken out of the Quandong reef, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detonating Like Thousand Cannon. Pathetic Scenes at Mine Mouth Newcastle (Colo.)
Eyewitnesses describe the mine explosion as equal to a volcano eruption. Flames and smoke shot from the mouth of the mine, and the whole mountain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cablegrams. Awful Mine Disaster. Explosion Like Volcanic Eruption. Thirty-eight Men Perish. San Francisco
A telegram from Grand Junction, in Colorado, reports that a serious mining disaster has occurred near Newcastle, Colorado…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cult of the Fetish on the Gold Coast
In his annual report, Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Gold Coast, describes many interesting particulars of the cult of the fetish, in the Northern Territories…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Austrian Miners Entombed. Two Rescued After Eight Days Ten Men Perish. Vienna
Last Tuesday week a number of minors were entombed in a colliery at Divaga, in the Gorz district, owing to a sudden inrush of water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Magnate Shot. Sir L. Phillip's Injuries. Cape Town, December 11
Sir Lione Phillips, a partner in the well-known firm of Wernher, Bert and Co. was shot outside the Rand Club, at Johannesbur, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Noah's Salt Mines
In Trans-Caucasia, in the Upper Aras Valley, lies one of the most wonderful mines of rock salt in the world—Mount Kulpi. The deposits of salt in this spot…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →At the Rescue Station of a Colliery Disaster
The recent terrible tragedy at the Universal Colliery at Senghsnydd, South Wales, must have made only too clear to everyone that for deadly horror, few…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Deserted Mining Town
The last train has left Mereur, Utah, the once prosperous mining town of four thousand people and live smelters. The orders were issued by the Salt Lake offices…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mining Disaster. Thirty Eight Killed. New York, December 17
Thirty-eight deaths are known to have been caused by the explosion in the Vulcan mine, near Newcastle (Colorado), and although more than this number were below…
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