High Prices for Coal
A SOUTH AFRICAN paper says:—"If Johannesburg does not progress, as we all hope and expect, it will be greatly owing to excessive charges, concessions and royalties…
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Mining & the mines, 1890
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San Francisco Coal Market
RESPECTING the San Francisco coal market, the following is from J. W. Harrison's circular, dated March 8:—Since the sailing of the last Australian mail the following…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal in British Columbia
ACCORDING to the Monetary Times of Toronto, minerals to the value of two and a half millions were raised in British Columbia last year. The coal production on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →District News. Greta. Miners' Meeting
THE usual monthly meeting of the miners took place on Tuesday evening, but no business of any importance was transacted. Mr. Dix, general secretary, was present, and read…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian News. New South Wales. Coalcliff Colliery Dispute
THE unfortunate dispute between the Coalcliff Company and its employees still exists, without any alteration or disposition to give in on either side. On Wednesday Mr. J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Mining Notes
WEBB'S silver mine have ready for dispatch 10 tons 11cwt 3qr 4lb ore; average assay, 127oz to the ton. No. 1 South Eastern Gympie have put…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria. Another Brown Coal Seam
Mr. Jas Stirling, Government Geologist, has reported the discovery on a small flat in the Mitchell River Valley, about a mile from Mount Lookout, near Bairnsdale, of a seam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Risks. Fatal Accident at Stockton
AN accident, attended with fatal-results, occurred to an old miner named Isiah Lees, in the Stockton pit about 20 minutes to 9 o'clock on Thursday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Wealth of Nova Scotia
THE Halifax Herald Publishes a North Sydney dispatch, from which it appears that during 1889-745,000 tons of coal have been mined in Cape Breton, against 240,000 in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →San Francisco Coal Trade
FOLLOWING is a report of the coal trade at 'Frisco, dated February 15:—During the week there have been the following arrivals of coal: From Australia, 1853 tons; from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle and Stockton Coal Company
THE ordinary half yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Newcastle and Stockton Land and Coal Company Limited was held on Monday last at the registered office of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. the Mining Exhibition
Mr. Oscar Meyer, Commissioner for New South Wales at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, has been appointed to represent the colony at the Universal Mining…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Adelaide Letter. ADELAIDE, April 1. Our School of Mines
APPEARS to be in bad way, if all that is said of it be correct. It has now been inexistence about 12 months, and considering the way it has been ''puffed up,'' should certainly be in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Latest Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Truck Gold
VERY rich gold has been struck on the Lord Hopetoun (late Root Hog) claim, Hillgrove, at the 130ft drive. The reef said to be 20in wide, showing splendid gold, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alarming Accident in a Colliery
AN alarming colliery accident recently occurred at Werndd Colliery, Caerphilly, Wales, by which twelve men were seriously injured. The engine working the drift ran…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Explosion at Mossfield Colliery
IN the House of Commons on Monday, February 24, Mr. Fenwick asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had been called to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →German Miners Dispute
THE Social Democratic party in the Reichstag have expressed themselves decidedly against the strike of miners under present circumstances. The Socialist paper the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Miners' Life Preserver
BY an inrush of water into a colliery at Pontypridd in April, 1877, five miners were imprisoned for 10 days without food, but were ultimately released by the rescuers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Found in Kent
SIR EDWARD WATKIN, the chairman of the South. Eastern Railway and Channel Tunnel Companies, has for the past two or three years been directing his attention to a search…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Westport (N.z.) Coal Trade
THE Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has had a steamer launched at Dumbarton, and named the Rotokino. This vessel has been specially built with a view to…
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