The World's Coal Resources
The duration of the coal resources of various countries has been calculated by a German statist. In a century or two, he estimates, exhaustion will overtake…
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Mining & the mines, 1900
1,022 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 52
The Naming of the Gold Coast
When the Portuguese, who were the first European explorers, first landed in the Bight of Benin, they found the native women washing gold dust out of the sand on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Bundesrath's Gold. Returned to Its Consignees
LONDON, Friday.—The Hanseatic Court has returned the Transvaal gold brought from Delagoa Bay by the steamer Bundesrath to its consignees…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Wales Coal
Owing (says the "Leeds Mercury," of 6th October) to a scarcity of tonnage, the demand for steam coal at Cardiff this week has fallen off appreciably, and for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meeting of Colliery Proprietors
A special meeting of the committee of the colliery proprietors of the northern district will be held in Sydney on Friday afternoon, to discuss matters of vital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District the East Greta Colliery Accident
The man John Hunter, who, on Wednesday last fell from the middle level to the bottom of the No. 1 tunnel in East Greta Colliery, a distance of 420 feet, died in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Victorian Coal Mines
The strike of miners at the Gippsland coal mines is seriously affecting the coal supplies of the Railway Department (says the "Argus "). Two hundred and forty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →That Troublesome Mine
Sir,—I interpret "Northumbrian's" letter to imply that there is no real grievance in connection with the altered system of weighing at Burwood Colliery. He says…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Outtrim Miners
The first distribution of "strike pay" to the Outtrim, Vic., miners, was made on Tuesday afternoon. As yet, and until the systematic levy which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Royalty on Gold
In September last an action was heard in the Supreme Court in which the Attorney-General, representing the Crown, sued the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company, Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minmi. Miners' Meeting
The monthly meeting of Dunckenfield and Back Creek Lodge was held on Thursday night in Wile's Hall. Mr. J. Mitchell in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sea Pit Miners
The monthly meeting of the above miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel on Thursday evening. The attendance was moderate. Mr. T. G. Wilson occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Versus Man
The steamship Deutschland develops power at the rate of 1 horse-power per hour for each 1½lb of coal consumed. While this is the top-notch economy in marine engines…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Outtrim Miners. Sydney
The executive officers of the A.L.F., Messrs. Watkins, Edden, Ms.P., and J. P. Cockrane, have received a communication from the Outtrim miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government and the Transvaal Mines
Sir Charles Dilke, in a speech at Coleford last week, stated that there were untouched mining rights in the Transvaal, valued by the Mining Department of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Work at the Collieries
Activity in the coal trade is still the order of the day, all the pits being kept going at high pressure to meet the ever-increasing demand. Full time for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Lambton Colliery
The wheeling difficulty at New Lambton, which kept the pit and tunnel idle on Friday and Saturday, has been settled. The wheelers, who were in receipt of 4s 6d per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Miners
The monthly meeting of the Wallsend miners was held on Friday evening in the School of Arts, Mr. C. Richardson in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greta. Miners' Meeting
The monthly meeting of miners was held at the Masonic Hall on Friday evening last, Mr. A. Phillips, check-weighman, presiding. Correspondence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal in Paris
The Paris correspondent of the "Pail Mail Gazette" writes:—The price of coal is the burning question—c'est lie cas de le dire!—in which Parisians are chiefly…
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