Meeting of the Borehole Miners
Yesterday rooming, a meeting of the Borehole miners was held at the gasworks for the purpose of making such arrangements as might be found necessary under the present…
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Mining & the mines, 1873
157 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 8
Coal-cutting Machinery
We learn from advices recently to hand from the coal-producing districts of England, that after many trials and successive disappointments, there is at length every prospect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Isis River Silver and Lead Mine
The following is the Mining Manager's report, read ut the Shareholders meeting, on the 24th January, 1873 :— MY DEAR SIR—According to your request,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Laurium Mines. London, February 3
Intercourse between Greece and Italy has been suspended in consequence of the differences which have arisen with regard to the Laurium Mines Question…
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We learn, from private telegram, that all the miners at Wollongong, Bulli, and other Southern collieries are out on strike. The reasons assigned as the cause have not yet come to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Miners' Conference at Durham
The representative miners from various parts of the country have been very busy this week in discussing, in the Durham Town Hull, their past successes and their present…
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Sellers of shares find that it is daily becoming more difficult to dispose of any other description than those of dividend-paying companies. There is plenty of money offering for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Colliery Accidents
Yesterday was a day fraught with accidents at two of our coal mines, both of which ended fatally. The first occurred at the B Pit, Wallsend Colliery, by a fall of coal, by which…
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The other fatal accident occurred at about eleven o'clock yesterday, at the Waratah New Tunnels, to a miner named Ambrose Luton, by it similar cause, viz., the falling of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Labour Question—coal. London, Feburary 9
The colliery stike continues. House coal is 50s. The introduction of Chinese labour is threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exports—coal and Iron. London, February 9
The exports from the United Kingdom for the month ending the 31st January, 1873, show an increase of four millions Stirling, owing principally to the increased value of coal and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Colliery Accident at Waratah
On Monday morning another fatal accident occurred at Waratah, to a miner named Ambrose Luton, who was employed, with his brother, in the tunnels. A fall of coal crushed…
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The S. M. Herald of the 18th instant, says: —The excitement about Hill End shares has not yet abated, and large amounts have changed hands for shares in several of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Profits in England
The history of the coal trade, like that of nations, is evidently capable of repeating itself. In January, 1853, coal began to rise in price, and in the course of twelve months the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MINING. Tuesday evening
The upward tendency in the price of Hill End shares seemed to have stopped this morning, and sales were made at about yesterday's rate until about 'Change hour, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Miners' Strike. London, February 17
The strike of the miners in Wales is coming to an end; 400 of the men will resume work to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Question. London, February 18
The price of coal has advanced in several of the manufacturing districts. Yesterday, the question was discussed in the journals. An appeal has been made to the Government, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Fatal Colliery Accident
Another fatal accident (making the third during the past week, from like causes) happened, on Saturday last, at the Redhead Tunnels, to a miner named William Miller, by a…
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Yarrangobilly Copper Mine. — The mining manager reports that Samuel's shaft is now sunk 61 feet, yielding good yellow ore of about 27 to 30 per cent., at the rate of two to three tons per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MINING. Saturday Evening
The S. M. Herald says:—The Share market was flat to-day, and prices without alteration. Krohmann's G. M. Co.—The mining…
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