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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The ordinary general meeting of the Natal Steam Coal Company (Ltd.) was held recently at the offices, 6 Old Jewry. E C. The chairman (Mr. D. Citreon), in moving the adoption of the report and accounts,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Does anyone except a practical chemist ever stop to think of the substances which we get from pit coal, and the almost inconceivable variety of their uses ?…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New York, May 3.—A terrible mining disaster occurred at Scofield, Utah, on May 1. An explosion occurred in one of the mines there when all the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Let us take a pound of what we will call average coal, containing, say, 10,000 heat units. This would be somewhat smaller in size than a man's fist…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is every likelihood of a bill to regulate the working of coal mines being passed in the coming session of Parliament (says the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The monthly meeting of the above miners was held on Friday evening, Mr. C. Richardson being, in the chair. Correspondence was read from Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With what difficulty the Boers were kept from wrecking the Rand mines, until matters of more pressing moment left them no time for business,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Saturday.—Kruger commandeered a total of two and a half million pounds sterling from the Rand Mines. The officials commandeered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the week ended at 6 o'clock yesterday morning the quantity of coal shipped at the Government cranes at the dyke totalled 51,545 tons coal and 30 tons coke. There were 48,821 tons of coal and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commenting upon the present position of the Do Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a London contemporary makes the following remarks:—"The actual state of affairs is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The coal cargo of the ship Windsor. Park became heated on the voyage from Newcastle (N.S.W.) to San Francisco, and 800…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With reference to a recent proposal that the Government should appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the available coal deposits left in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At a special meeting of miners, Mr. J. Mitchell in the chair, the correspondence, as read was received and dealt with. It was moved and seconded,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The adjourned cases against the managers of the Black Creek and Duckenfield, Stockton, and Wickham and bullock Island collieries for "not paying" persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the week it appeared as if there would be serious trouble over the cutting question at Burwood Colliery. On Monday the manager gave instructions that before a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two men were recently drowned in the workings, of the Elswick South Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the lives of 30 others placed in jeopardy. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The daily average of coal shipped during the week ended yesterday by the Government cranes at the dyke was 11,222 tons, taken by foreign, intercolonial, and coasting vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Final arrangements were made to-day to refer the dispute at the South Bulli Colliery to arbitration under the terms of the Conciliation and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a meeting of the Lancashire Coal Sales Association, held in Manchester on Tuesday (states the "Manchester Weekly Times," of 27th April), an important…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Ascot Heath races were continued to-day, when the principal event resulted as follows:—…
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