Lambton Colliery
Our correspondent writes: The Lambton Colliery management handed the terms to the men yesterday in writing, and they were considered at a miners' meeting held in the…
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Mining & the mines, 1895
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Seaham Miners
Our West Wallsend correspondent writes:—The difficulty at Seaham is about at an end, as the miners hive agreed to allow the manager to have his own way re the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at Hetton Colliery
JOHN PHILLIPS, the chairman of the Hetton Miners' Lodge, met with an accident in the Hetton mine yesterday morning. He was engaged at the time drawing a sprag, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ripening Gold Ore
THERE is a man in Salt Lake who claims that he has discovered a vegetable compound that "ripens" gold ore. According to his theory ore is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wages Cost of Producing Coal
THE cost of the production of coal is usually made up of three different general items—wages, royalty, and administration and miscellaneous…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mining Situation. Matters Generally
MATTERS appear to be daily settling themselves in the coal trade, and arrangements are being come to between the managements and the miners at the various collieries where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lambton Colliery
Our Lambton correspondent writes:—The conference between the management and miners of the Lambton Colliery resulted in a settlement being arrived at. The men…
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THE settlements arrived at during the last seven days at the Glebe and Seaham collieries dispose of the last of the principal disputes in the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Murchison Goldfield. Reports from the Mines. Cue
THE Austin Gold Mining Company's battery has started on the island and has been crushing since Sunday midnight. Some distributers working a lease known as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →San Francisco Coal Market
Mr. J. W. Harrison, in his coal circular dated San Francisco, March 2, says:—"It is seldom that the amount of coal loading and en route from 8wansea is almost equal to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How Coal is Taken to London
BEFORE the days of steam locomotion coal came to London (writes an English paper) seaborne by sailing ship, or inland by canal barge. To get the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CABLEGRAMS. The War in Chitral. Particulars of the Siege. Explosion of the Enemy's Mines
LONDON, Thursday.—The latest accounts received from Chitral regarding the siege state that the garrison suffered considerably owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation. Work Resumed at Seaham. The Lambton Matter Settled. Strike at Gertlee
THE drawing of the cavile at the Seaham Colliery took place yesterday, and work was proceeded with at once by the unionists. It was thought that a recommencement would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal-mining in Russia
A COMPANY has just been formed with a capital of £2,200,000, to be known as the Societe Anonyme des Charbonnages Prokhorow, to acquire the Prokhorow collieries in…
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OUR Lambton correspondent writes:—"Some excitement prevailed in Lambton and New Lambton on Saturday morning over the re-engaging of miners to resume work at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →East Greta Coal-mining Co, Ltd. Half-Yearly Meeting
THE eighth half-yearly meeting of the above company was held at the company's office, Bond-street, Newcastle, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Disaster in Scotland
LONDON, Friday.—Through an explosion in a colliery at Denny, near Glasgow, several coal-miners are reported to have lost their lives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Victorian Coal Industry. Coal Creek Company. Shameful Revelations
THOUGH it is known that the Victorian coal industry costs the taxpayers a large sum, there is (writes the Melbourne Argus) a prevalent belief that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Coal in Italy
VICE-CONSUL DE ZUCCATO, of Venice, reports that there was a decrease in the importation of steam and gas coal from the United Kindom in 1893…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Beach Mining. The New Zealand Process
MR. JAMES J. MAHER, of West Maitland, has forwarded a letter he received from a friend in New Zealand, giving an interesting account of beach mining in that colony. In…
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