Wonthaggi Coal Mine Disaster
Fire has broken out in a tunnel in the Victorian State coal mine at Wonthaggi. The cause is unknown. The coal is burning and two men are out…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mining & the mines, 1924
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Burning Mine Flooded
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Continued on Trove, page 47 →The Wonthaggi Mine
Another miner was badly gassed when sealing the Wonthaggi mine. The flooding is being continued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal-trimmers Resume
Work was resumed by the Newcastle coal trimmers at the end of last week, and the idleness changed to scenes of activity along the waterfront, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Record Mining Output
The annual report of the Department of Mines was presented to Parliament by the Minister for Mines. It showed that the total value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Japanese Mine Disaster. Tokio, August 10
Fifty miners were entrapped in the Iriyama coalmine in the Fukushima province when a gas explosion occurred last night…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Railways to Coorabin Coal Mine
The districts east of the Coorabin coal field are giving support to the efforts that are being made at Corowa to have the coal field railway extended…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Huge Coal Deposits. 25,000,000 TONS
Mr. Leo Jones, geological surveyor, giving evidence before the New States Commission stated that to estimated there were 25,000,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riverina Collieries Ltd
At a meeting of the board held on August 8, it was decided to make a further call of 26, thereby making the contributing shares hold by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold From Sea-water
The modern alchemist no longer dreams of transmitting the baser metals into gold he is more concerned with the possibility of extracting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Mining Disputes Compulsory Tribunal Sitting
The compulsory coal conference which was opened to-day was adjourned till to-morrow. The official report of the proceedings shows that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mining Conference. Adjourned Till
The compulsory conference of the miners and owners met to-day, and was adjourned till Friday afternoon, when the decision of the chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Mining Disputes a Seven Years' Record
Giving evidence at the Newcastle court to-day relative to compensation claim. Mr. C. McDonald, president of the Northern Collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mining Disputes. Twelve Collieries Idle
Five additional northern coal mines were laid idle, yesterday, making twelve now idle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mine Closed Down
The Jumbunna Coal Company has had to close down their mine permanently in consequence of laber difficulties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Mining Disaster
An American cable states that 81 men have been entombed in a mine of tire Kemmerer Colliery Company, in Wyoming, by an explosion. Rescue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diamond Mine Dramas
There is scarcely a page of history of South African diamonds that is not full of romance as any you will find in books of fiction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kill or Cure! Medicines and Deadly Explosives From Coal
If you have a headache a small dose of antispyrin will generally relieve the pain, while for a really severe attack of neuralgia a few…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wonthaggi Again. Coal Miners Threaten Trouble
Serious trouble is threatened at the Wonthaggi Coal Mine, unless the management agrees to reinstate fourteen men, whe were dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal. Export Reduction
That the present position of the British coal industry is extremely grave, faced as it is with increasing foreign competition, and hampered at home by…
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