Miser' Gold Hoard Dies in Workhouse and Leaves £700 in Gold
The golden hoard of a Monmouth woman miser, who, when she died at Monmouth Workhouse, was thought to be in poverty, has been discovered,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New England · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1922
221 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 12
The Coal Trouble. Compulsory Conference Proceeding
The colliery proprietors and miners having failed to agree at their conference last week, a compulsory conference was commenced this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silver Spur Mine. Hopeful Reports
Developments in the Silver Spur mine, near Texas continue to keep manager Edgar Hall in an optimistic frame of mind. As a mine it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gympie Gold
Gympie as a goldfield is evidently not yet played out. The best crushing reported at the field for many a day has just been returned from No. 4…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reduced Wages Action by Miners. High Court Injunction Sought. Sydney
It is officially announced that steps are being taken by the Executive of the Coal Miners' Federation to obtain an injunction from the High Court against…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Emmaville Mining a Big[?] Preposition Miners on Good Tin
When the bottom dropped out of the metal market, and bismuth fell from 12/6 per lb to 2/6, Black 14 Mine at Bismuth, 23 miles from Deepwater ceased…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Burnt Creek Gold Removal a Tale of the Northern Diggins. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xiv (Continued)
I didn't believe for one moment the had been on top of the boulder. A man wanted to be active and supple, and Dawkins was anything but that. And…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Miners' Strike
It is explained that in the event of a coal strike the electrical supplies of the city can be maintained for over three months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Burnt Creek Gold Removal. a Tale of the Northern Diggings. (All Rights Reserved.) CHAPTER XVII.—(Continued.)
Early on Saturday morning I took a hundred bare of gold from the race, and placed them in the cart, and after eating a hearty breakfast, I started in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →King Coal
Before the war the best Newcastle coal was 11/ per ton. To-day its price is 21/9 per ton. The colliery proprietors hold out no prospect of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Quartz Find. Yields 110ozs. Gold
A quartz nugget weighing 150ozs. was found in old alluvial working at Paynes' find, in the Yalgo district, West Australia. When smelted in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Coal Strike. Electricity Can be Maintained
It is explained that in the event of a coal strike the electrical supplies of the city can be maintained for over three months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Burnt Greek Gold Removal. a Tale of the Northern Diggings. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xix a Scene with Dawkins
When the auctioneer had left me, the more I thought of what he said, the more complex the matter appeared. I had no love for Dawkins, and for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important Coal Discovery
Four of the biggest firms in this State, including Messrs. Wm. Langley and Sons, are finding a quarter of a million capital to develop a discovery…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Tribunal Injunction Granted to Workers. Sydney
Justice Higgins, sitting in the High Court in Chambers, granted an application on behalf of the Workers' Industrial Union, Mining Section, restraining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Mining
Few people realise to what an extent the air is to-day being "worked" for raw materials. Many millions of pounds worth of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Burnt Creek Gold Removal. a Tale of the Northern Diggings. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xii. Back to Burnt Creek
Bradford came back from Sydney such improved in health, and he gave me an account of his dolngs. One [?] he told me interested me very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany or Glen Innes? The Australian Gem Industry Great Mining Development. The Work at Sapphire. World's Biggest Field American Money Stabilises the Market
Prior to the war the two most prosperous manufacturing towns in the world, per head of the population, were Ids and Oberstein, on the Rhine in Germany These towns grew wealthy—not on local production but on the cutting of Australian gems. It is the aim…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Burnt Greek Gold Removal. a Tale of the Northern Diggings. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xxii (Continued)
"Very strange," said Nines, "It must be someone who knows the place, to be riding about here in the ascertain light, amongst these races,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New England Mining. Big Silver Lode
For some time past there has been an air of suppressed excitement at Drake owing to the discovery of a silver loe which is variously reported as…
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