The Periscope Mine
The Huns, I am told (says a writer in the Evening Standard”), are again making extensive use of the so-called “periscope, mine,’ an ingenious device…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining & the mines, 1918
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Lymington Colliery Dispute a Favorable Agreement. Sydney
The he miners' representatives conferred with Mr. J. B. Holme, Indnstrial Registrar, to-day. After a lengthy discussion an arrangement for the settlement of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Labor on the Rand Miners Want Increases. Johannesburg
In view of the fact that the mine workers generally are demanding increased wages, it is understood that the Chamber of Mines has suggested a general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accidents at the Barrier Miners' New Movement
A custom adopted by the members of the A.M.A. in Broken Hill is to cease work when a fatal accident occurs, and for the men on the succeeding two shifts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enemy Mine Field
A Wellington (N.Z.) news item states that an enemy mine field has been discovered ten miles off shore to tho north of the extreme point of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wymah Wolfram Mining Co. N.l
The third several meeting of shareholders in the above company was hold at Scott's Hotel, Melbourne, on Friday, June 14, Mr. Lewis Phillips, chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industry and the War Labor in South Africa Views of Mining President. London
Mr. Wallers, president of the Chamber of Mines, speaking at a dinner arranged by the Industrial Conference, said that Johannesburg lately had been full of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Outside Minefield
The Foreign Office announces thai the British Government has expressed regret that a mine laid outside the proclaimed minefield had sunk a Dutch pilot boat and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Famous Salt Mines of Wieliczka
When the Russians made their sensational advance upon Galacian Cracow, early in the war, they had in view an object about which they said little but knew a great…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →The Wymah Wolfram Mining Co., No Liability
The third general meeting of share-holders in the above company was held cott's Hotel. Melbourne, on Friday, 14th Jane. Mr. Lewis Phillips, chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Two Miners Entombed Inrush of Water
A sudden inrush of water at Messrs. J. Wright and Co.'s colliery at Tivoli, Queensland, on Thursday morning resulted in the mine manager. W. Barnes, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Other Items Berlin Denies Laying Mines for Hospital Ships
Reuters' Amsterdam correspondent says that a message from Berlin has officially denied the British Admiralty statement, cabled on the 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mooratunka Dredging Scheme. Will the Murray Be Polluted? Enquiry by the Mining Warden at Corowa
Mr. J. Laidlaw, P.M., sitting as a Mining Warden at the Corowa, Police Court on Friday last, under instructions from the Minister of Mines,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Even Coal Strike Threatens
According to the Amsterdam correspondent of "The Times," there have been strikes at all the munition factories of Budapest. A. stoppage of the postal and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Save Coal
When sifting cinders, do not throw away the ashes. Put them in a corner; mix together 1oz. of oxalic acid and 1lb. of common salt, pour over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Children's Story. How We Held the Mine
"Telegram, sir." "With these words the bell-boy at the Iturbide Hotel, in Mexico City, accosted me in the lobby as I returned from a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Desert Gold Will Visit Australia in the Spring. Wellington
to send a team of horses to Australia for the spring racing carnivals. Desert Gold will be one of the horses to make the trip. As was the case this year, the net…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Wimmera Sunk. by Mine Off New Zealand Coast Eighty-two People Missing. Sydney
An enemy, mine has accounted for another Australian steamer in our home wasters. The Wimmera, of the Huddart Parker line, while on a voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty Miners Killed by Dynamite. (Reuter.)
In Virginia (Minnesota) lightning exploded dynamite in the Silver[?] mine, and killed 20 workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wimmera Sunk by Mine Twenty-five Persons Perish Sydney
A telegram received early this morning by the Navy Department, states that a searching expedition picked up 31 additional persons from the Wimmera, bringing…
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