Mining Trouble. Presidential Conference
LONDON, Friday.—The conference between President Roosevelt and the representatives of the mining companies, whose employees are now on…
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Mining & the mines, 1902
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Dashed to Atoms. Terrible Mining Accident
LONDON, Friday.—A shocking colliery accident has occurred at Ponty-pool Monmoutshire. The winding rope at the Tirpintwys Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early Newcastle. New Zealand Gold Rush. Chronicle Clippings. No. Iii
Old residents, whose memories reach back to the sixties, will recollect the stir caused all over the colonies by the discovery of gold in New Zealand. Business was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greater Newcastle. New Coal Fields. South Maitland District. No. 22. PELAW-MAI[?]N
Great as the progress has been at Heddon-Greta and Stanford-Merthyr, Pelaw-Main has developed much more rapidly. The settlement on this estate—…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The correspondent of "The Times" at New York, reports that the President of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt, has formulated…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Fourteen deaths have occurred from an explosion in the Black Diamond Colliery, in the State of Washington…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Eight thousand coal miners have gone out on strike in the Pas de Calais Department of France as a protest against…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta. Re-starting Anvil Creek Colliery
Several men were employed yesterday morning repairing the tunnel, preparatory to re-starting the tunnel Creek mine. Mr. A. Mason has arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electricity in Mines and Its Risks
Electricity is felt by nearly all mining engineers to be the most convenient agent for distributing power about the colliery, but though the number of accidents that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Industry. Statements of the Inspector
During the year 1901 there were 1899 persons employed above ground connected with the collieries of the northern district of New South Wales, and 7258 below…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Troubles. Difficulty in Pennsylvania
LONDON, Monday.—President Roosevelt is continuing his efforts to mediate between the miners and the coal-owners, on the basis that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Troubles. America Importing Coal
LONDON, Tuesday.—At present 200,000 tons of Welsh coal are being despatached to New York and Boston, at enhanced prices. Newcastle coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta. the Colliery
After the unsealment of the Greta mine, Mr. Jeffries, with carpenters, descended the shaft, and found it in good order. On reaching the bottom the mine was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plattsburg. Co-operative Colliery Fund
The fortnightly meeting of subscribers to the Co-operative Colliery Fund for the relief of accidents, has been held. The income for the past pay amounted to £14…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The council of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy has issued an appeal to its members to discourage the use of the term…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anthracite Coal in America
In view of the immense and turbulent strike among the anthracite coal miners in the United States, an account of the coalfields, published in "Engineering,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold on the Rand
LONDON, Tuesday.—Mr. E. P. Rathbone, the well-known mining engineer, states that, assuming operations in the newly-discovered gold field on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Troubles. France and America
LONDON, Wednesday.—No less than 570,000 miners, constituting two-thirds of the French colliers, have gone out on strike for a 10 percent…
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About three o'clock this morning a disastrous creep, resulting in a fall, occurred in the southern workings of the Central Broken Hill Company's mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Colliery. Sydney
Mr. A. A. Atkinson, Chief inspector of Coal Mines, to-day received a telegram from Mr. J. T. Tenant, inspector of collieries, to the effect that smoke had been…
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