A Colliery Blown Up
An awful explosion occurred at Ferndale Colliery, Glamorganshire, early in the month of June. About half an hour after the colliers, of whom six hundred…
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Mining & the mines, 1869
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The Thames Goldfields
Napier, July 25.—Splendid returns have been obtained from the Long Drive claim. About 460 stones were crushed, which yielded 2036 ozs. retorted gold. Some stones were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest from New Zealand. Horrible Cannibalism by the Hauhaus. Alliance of Rewi and Te Kooti. Detachment of the 18Th Ordered to Auckland. More Splendid Yields of Gold at the Thames
By the arrival of the Blackbird, steamer, on Sunday, we were put in possession of New Zealand news to the 27th of July, some of the items in which are very startling. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hulfe Gottes Silver and Lead Mine
IT is always a very gratifying task for us, as journalists, to watch the progress of any colonial industry, more especially when the source of industry has sprung up in our very midst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To the Shareholders of the Hulfe Gottes Silver and Lead-mining Company (Limited). Per favor of the Newcastle Chronicle
GENTLEMEN—Observing that the Board of Directors have advertised for "tenders" to further sink the shaft which I opened during the period of my management, and put down to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Miners' Ball in Oregon
The costumes, as a rule, were more suggestive of ease than, elegance scarlet shirts and buckskin ' pants' were in the ascendant. The boots, as a rule, were worn outside…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Colliery Explosion - Loss of Fifty - Eight Lives
On Wednesday, 28th July, an explosion of fire - damp, which has resulted in the loss of fifty - eight lives -and the number will pro-bably be increased -took place in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Colliery Disturbance Near Sheffield
At a late hour on Saturday night, a very serious took place between some unjonist and, non - unionist colliers near Sheftield. The scene of the affray is the Maner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Western Collieries
On Tuesday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Lucas, M.P., and Messrs. Montefiore, Alex-ander Brown, Lipman, and Thomas Sawyell, had an interview with the Hon. the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Supply of San Fran- Cisco
The supply of mineral coal is an important matter in our civilisation for fuel, which makes manufacturing productions one of the chief sources of natural wealth in modern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Iceley Copper Mines
It is surprising how little is known in Sydney of a very extensive and important coppermining and smelting establishment carried on for some years past in the Western district of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Protection for the Colliery. Townships
The cry 'almost-eVery Where throughont the colony; and especially in the larger towns, is, that, the police force is too numerous,,and that. the.services Of many of the constable might be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extraordinary Rescue of Men From the Great Northern Junction Mine
Of the ten men originally engulphed in the mine from the effects of the great flood at Ballarat, nine have been got out alive and well the last to be rescued, Thomas Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Bessemer on Colliery Explosions
Mr. Bessemer, in a letter to the London Times, says he has no doubt, that if scientific men would turn their attention to the sub-ject, that means would be found to render the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fearful Colliery Accident in Saxony. Upwards of Four Hundred Men Killed. Dresden, August 5
Early on Monday morning last, intelligence was received here that, at a short distance from this city upwards of four hundred men had fallen victims to a terrible colliery accident…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMERICA. Via California, later news from the Atlantic States, to the 9th September, has reached the S. M. Herald. the Pennsylvania Coal Mine Calamity. New York, September 7
A special from Scranton, Pennsylvania, says there were not less than 130 nor more than 150 people in the Avondale mine when the accident occurred. Some men who went…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Riot
On Monday, a greatdemonstration of colliers belonging to the South Yorkshire Minors' As-sociation was held at Hyde-park, Sheffield. It is estimated that upwards of 5000 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest from New Zealand. the Thames Goldfields
We are indebted to Captain Kiddey, of the Amateur, schooner, which vessel arrived here on Thursday, for files of Auckland papers to the 30th ultimo, from which we subjoin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Accidents and Official Inspection
The fact that, in point of safety, the English collieries, which are subjected to very limited governmental inspection, compare favourably with those of Belgium, where a strict military…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Denudation of the Shropshire and South Staffordshire Coal Fields
The aid which experience in mining lends to science is every now and then simply repaid, and Unit with interest; and instances are of almost daily occurrence which show that the…
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