South Australia. Adelaide, Monday. Golden Chance Mine
Over 100 tone of stone from the Golden Chance mine which had been crashed at the Government Battery at Artiunga, in Macdonnell's Ranges, has returned an average of…
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Mining & the mines, 1898
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West Australia. Perth, Monday. Gold Export for March
The total export of gold from West Australia for March is 76,480ez, worth £286,444 sterling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Welsh Miners' Trouble
LONDON, Monday.—At the recent conference between the representatives of the coalowners and the delegates of the miners who are on strike…
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LONDON, Monday.—It is stated that Great Britain will treat coal as contraband of war in the West Indies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Welsh Miners' Strike. Ballot on Delegates' Powers
LONDON, Monday.—A ballot of the Welsh coal miners has been taken with regard to the acceptance or otherwise of the recent demands of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Gold Find in Westralia. a Reef in the Sand. Albany
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused by the discovery of a gold-bearing reef near Denmark Saw Mills. The reef, which outcrops for 130yds, is 30yds wide, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disaster in a Colliery. Thirty-six Miners Killed
LONDON, Wednesday.—A fire broke out in a colliery at Whitewick, Leicestershire, and 36 miners, who were entombed in the workings, perished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Permanent Relief Fund
FOR years past this journal has advocated the formation of a permanent relief fund for miners. The operations of some of those fund in England are so beneficent that they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Accident in Geeta Mine
A FATAL accident in the mine at half-past 3 o'clock yesterday. James March whilst working in his bord was struck on the head by a soldier which had been set to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Permanent Belief Fund. to Be Compulsory. Conference in Newcastle. Minister for Mines Present
THE conference convened by Mr. W. W. Young (the Mayor of Stockton) to deal with the establishment of a permanent relief fund was held at the Council Chambers yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Wallsend Colliery
Sir.—Another of these arbitrary and illegal ants, for which the wheelers of this district have become notorious, took place at the pit on Tuesday…
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A MEETING was recently held at Newcastle-on-Tyne between the Wages Committee of the Durham Coal-owners' Association and the Durham Country Mining Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General News. Indian Coal
The production of coal in India seems to be progressing. The output for 1896 is now officially reported at 3,848,000 tons as compared with 3,538,000 tons In 1895, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Mining Association
THE annual meeting of the Mining Association of Great Britain was held at West-minster recently, Mr. William Fletcher (Cumberland) presiding. The report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experiments in Mining Explosives
The endeavours put forth from time to time by chemists and others to discover a safer and cheaper explosive than gunpowder for the blasting of coal have been many and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Welsh Miners' Strike Injury to Industries. Board of Trade Asked to Intervene
LONDON, Thursday.—The miners' strike is stated to be involving southern industries in Great Britain in a loss of £300,000 weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dudley Calamity Continuation of the Inquest. Evidence for the Management. No Complaint About the Ventilation. the Mine Said to Be Well Bratticed. More Evidence at to Gas
THE sorenial Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Dudley Colliery disaster and as to the cause of the deaths of the two men, Thomas Dorrity and John Benson…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →He Went to the Rush. a Good Goldfields Yarn
MANY a good yarn is told by miners of the old digging days in Victoria when money was thrown about like water, and when scarcely a fortnight passed without some phenomenal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Explosions in Coal Mines
Sir,—I hereby suggests scheme for lessening the loss of lives in coal mines with explosions, that is, to have safety breathing pipes laid in the floor in the main roads in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waratah Miners. Distribution of Relief
A MEETING of the Waratah miners was held on Saturday morning at Adamatown. The meeting was convened for the purpose of deciding how the relief available for the…
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