Miners' Risks
A MINER named James M'Ilvene, employed at the Greta Colliery, met with a nasty accident yesterday through a fall of coat. He was conveyed home with as little delay as…
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Mining & the mines, 1896
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British Coal Mining Industry. Lapse of the Board of Conciliation
LONDON, Friday.—The Coal-miners' Board of Conciliation has lapsed. The employers desired to reduce the wages of the miners, but the representatives…
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The total amount of coal tipped at the Government wharves for the week ended Saturday was 59,010 tons, as against 50,143 tons for the corresponding period during last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Socialist Congress. Nationalisation of Collieries. "A Ghastly Failure."
LONDON, Monday.— The International Congress of Socialist Workers in London has passed resolutions demanding the nationalisation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation
The resumption of work at the collieries and the constant employment found for the men are making things in general present an animated aspect. The miners, however, are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous Colliery Explosion. Forty Men Entombed
LONDON, Tuesday.—A disastrous explosion occurred in a colliery near Neath, Glamorganshire, South Wales, to-day. Forty miners are entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Temperatures in Coal Cargoes
Captain W. H. Langford, of the barque Inveresk, now at Brisbane, in a letter to Mr. R. B. Wallace, under date August 2nd, writes as follows:—"You will, of course,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hetton Colliery. Condition of the Workings. Mr. Mathieson's Opinion
WHEN asked yesterday if he had anything to say upon the report made by the three check-inspectors of the Hetton Colliery as to the condition of the workings, Mr. Alex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. Colliery Explosion in Wales. the Entombed Miners. Rescue Work
LONDON, Wednesday.—Further particulars of the colliery disaster at Neath, South Wales, which entombed 40 miners, state that 200 men had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Train
SOME time previous to the strike an application was made to the Railway Commissioners for a train to run night and morning to Burwood Colliery for the convenience of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Combustion of Coal Cargoes. Sydney
A ROYAL COMMISSION has been issued to Professor Richard Threlfall, M.A, and Mr. Edward Fisher Pittman, F.G.S., A.R.S.M., to make full inquiry into the cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Treating Gold Ores. The Cyanide Process Explained
IN view of the likelihood of huge works being erected in this district for treating gold ores, a brief explanation of the valuable cyanide process, and how, by the cheap…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining
THE mines of the district are now pretty well in full swing, though the men are none too well pleased with the new rates of pay. Many of them…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Coal Output
Though the quantity of coal exported to places outsides the colony for the week ended yesterday barely exceeds 38,000, it is the opinion of good judges that the output—all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Position at the Mines
The present demand for practical miners is unprecedented in the history of coal-mining in Newcastle (writes a suburban correspondent). Abundance of work in a community…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Coal Industry. The Conciliation Board
A CABLEGRAM in yesterday's issue stated that the British Coal Conciliation Board had lapsed This board has in the past been a powerful factor in preserving industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great North-western Silver-mining Company
THE prospectus of the Great North-Western Silver-mining Company, Zeehan, Tasmania, appears in another part of this issue. The capital is £15,000 in 60,000 shares of 5s each…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation. a Better Feeling. The Output for the Week
UNLESS anything unforeseen happens to disturb the tranquillity of the situation, mining matters should, according to present indications, go on smoothly for some time to come…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in a Colliery. Outbreak at the Burwood Mine
DENSE volumes of smoke were observed early yesterday morning issuing from the old furnace shaft of the Burwood Colliery about a mile to the rear of Merewether, but it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation. Colliery Rates at Wallsend. Affairs at Burwood
IT is understood that, as the result of a deputation, Mr. Alex, Ross, the colliery manager at Wallsend, has agreed to pay the miners the old terms for working certain…
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