Shocking Colliery Explosion
AN explosion of coal gas recently occurred in the 4ft seam of the Nantmelyn Colliery, Aberdare, owned by the Aberdare Morthyr Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1893
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The Western Collieries. Sydney
THE difficulty in connection with the proposed reduction in the lowing rate in the Lithgow district has not yet been settled. The miners have offered to submit to a reduction of 2d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Craze for Gold. Adelaide
A craze for demanding all payments in gold has set in, and the press is protesting against it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conditions of Coal Mining. to the Editor
Sir,—In your issue of Tuesday last there appears a letter from Dr. Robertson on the "Conditions of Coal Mining," from which, according to his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inspection of the Greta Colliery
IN accordance with the decision arrived at by the recent conference between a sub-committee of the associated colliery proprietors and the district officers of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Mining Accident
LONDON, Monday.—A terrible accident has occurred in a mine in Michigan, U.S. Ten miners were coming to the surface in the cage, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence. Decrease of the Export of Coal. to the Editor
SIR,—The numerous quotations of facts so recently published in your journal show that the people of San Francisco, China Japan, Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Coal in £1000 Lumps
THE monument of coal being prepared by an American mining company, in sections of about two tons each, for erection at the World's Fair, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Southern Collieries
THE activity experienced in the coal trade at Clifton during a portion of last month has diminished considerably. For the last two weeks the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Burwood Colliery
THE management of the Burwood Colliery have decided to find room for the miners who were cavilled out last week as early as Possible. When work was resumed on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →South Australia. Adelaide, Wednesday. Fatal Mining Accident
A terrible accident occurred at the Moonta mines this afternoon, when two men were killed and one injured. John Thomas and Ernest Paull had their heads shattered by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Collieries
THE dispute concerning the hewing rate at the collieries in the Lithgow district is yet unsettled. Up to the present the proprietors have shown an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Copeland Cobark Gold Mine. Raymond Terrace
THE directors of the Copeland Cobark Gold Mining Company met here on Tuesday afternoon. It was unanimously resolved to erect machinery, including a 15-head…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Western Collieries. Sydney
THE Western Miners' Association held a meeting at Lithgow last night to consider the proposed reduction in the hewing rate from 2s 4d to 1s 10d per ton. It was decided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Closing of a Colliery
OWING to the slackness of trade the proprietors or the New Anvil Creek colliery have decided to close the mine. For some weeks little or no work has been done, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Southern Collieries. Woonona Difficulty Settled
ON Tuesday, Mr. George Henderson and Mr. Settle, the Southern miners' executive, had an interview with the managing proprietor, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Stockton Miners
A SPECIAL meeting of this lodge was hold last night, Mr. J. Leitch, chairman, presiding. The business of the meeting was the discussion of Bone and Bone's broken skip case…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining in Chili
IN a paper on "Chili, Mining, Metallurgical and Industrial," before the French Civil Engineers, M. Charles Vattier observes that one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Situation in Queensland. Two Tons of Gold Arrived. BRISBANE
The North Brisbane Corporation has arranged with the Union Bank to carry them on, and there has been no need to discharge employees…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal-mining in South Australia. Discontented Shareholders
THINGS are evidently not going smoothly in the new coal mine at Leigh's Creek, South Australia. When the seam was discovered some three years ago experts with their usual…
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