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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,402 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 71
An extraordinary general meeting of the Redhead Coal-mining Company was held this afternoon to consider certain important business according to advertisement. After…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN connection with the actions brought by the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board against various companies owning collieries here to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MINER named Andrew Ritchie met with a fatal accident in the No. 2 section of the Back Creek collieries yesterday morning. Definite information as regards the accident is not to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE regular monthly meeting of the Sea Pit miners was held in the Merewether Hotel on Thursday evening. The attendance was fairly good, and Mr. Joseph Halliday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE decision given by Mr. Justice Owen that the Greta Collieries, Limited, be compulsorily wound up, taken in conjunction with a report with a report by a committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE determination of the Greta Coal Company to go into liquidation spells absolute ruin for a time to the once thriving town of Greta. Although…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →IN a recent Natal Government Gazette is a bill to be introduced into the Legislative Assembly by a private member, providing for the extension…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION from the Victorian coal importers waited on the Treasurer of that colony, as the Minister controlling the Tender Board and as their representative in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE re-arrangement of the coal duties contemplated by the present Ministry was (remarks the Hobart Mercury) the cause of some rather heated debate in the Assembly,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Payable gold has been discovered 14 miles from Brisbane, on the Logan-road. SIR THOMAS M'ILWRAITH'S HEALTH Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith continues to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The prospectus of the Great Boulder Mining Company, Hannan's Rush, Coolgardie, will shortly be issued. The capital is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.—A terrible explosion of firedamp occurred to-day in a colliery at Karwin about 28 miles from Troppau, in Austrian Silesia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT seems that one of the difficulties to be contended against, in the working of the Leigh's Creek Colliery, the now celebrated coal mine of South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADVOCATES of State socialism point out that their views are not by any means new and wonderful, but that they simply contend for the extension…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British Acting-Consul at Batavia writes:— "It still remains uncertain in how far the quality and cost of the Ombilioen and Keotei coals will enable them to compete in the open market with English…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN, at the beginning of this year the selling price of Newcastle coal was reduced to 8s per ton, with a corresponding decrease in the hewing rates paid to the miner from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday.—The coal miners employed in the pits in and around Hamilton, Lanarkshire, numbering 10,000, have resolved to strike at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A syndicate has been formed to develop a mining property at Crowe's Nest, to the west of Mount Morgan. Ten tons of stone yielded 50oz of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE usual weekly meeting of the Greta Miners' Lodge was held in North's Hall yesterday, Mr. W. Kennedy in the chair. The roll was called, and the minutes of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Back Creek Miners held their usual monthly meeting in Wile's Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. Jas. Marsden in the chair. The secretary (Mr. Leighton) read the…
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