West Wallsend. Miners' Meeting
A special meeting of the Seaham miners was held on Wednesday evening in Watson's Lodge-room. Mr. D. Evans occupied the chair. Mr. J. Paterson read and explained the…
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Mining & the mines, 1904
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District News. Wallsend. Miners' Meeting
As special meeting of the Wallsend miners as held at the Masonic Hall on Thursday evening, for the purpose of dealing with the business transacted by the delegate board at…
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Apparently there is no habitable place on the globe where New Zealanders do not penetrate. According to information received in London some excitement has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' Meeting. Nationalisation of Mines. Regulating Selling Prices. Auxiliary Arbitration Courts
An aggregate meeting of the members of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at Arnott's Paddock, Melville-street, Newcastle, on Saturday, to consider…
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Sir,—I am instructed by the Northern Extended miners, in reply to a letter in your paper of last Thursday's issue, signed "Mope Hawk," in which the names of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News. Teralba Distress Among Miners
On Saturday night the local schoolmaster. Mr. H. Wilkinson, in compliance with a requisition, convened a public meeting which was held at the School of Arts for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Explosion
LONDON, Monday.—A terrible explosion has occurred in a coal mine at Tercio, Colorado. Sixty of the miners were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockton Miners
A special meeting of the Stockton Miners' Lodge was held last night, Mr. E. O'Toole presiding, in the absence of the president, Mr. W. Donnelly. The meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Naval Coal Supplies
The statement made that the naval authorities are dissatisfied with the coal supplied from the Westport collieries in New Zealand is just now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Trade Difficulties
The case of the miners of the district, who are suffering severely from the depression in the coal trade, is one that calls for sympathy. Without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal for the Navy. Newcastle Owners' Views
The statement made in the metropolitan press to the effect that tome dissatisfaction was being felt with respect to the Westport, New Zealand coal, supplied for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ocean Mining Leases. Thickness of Rock
On behalf of the Mines Department, Mr. Halligan is now engaged in the Stockton Bight, in the tug Powerful, making experiments as to the depth of covering over the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal for the Navy
Referring to the matter of the coal supply for the navy, a colliery proprietor stated yesterday that Newcastle coal was tested 18 months or two years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brilliant Mines. Charters Towers
Twenty-four men were working in No. 4 level at the Brilliant Mine to-day, pumping on the lire for a time, and on going back six of them were overcome by fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brilliant Mine Disaster. Charters Towers
The inquiry Into the deaths of the men who lost their lives through the fire in the Brilliant mine was opened to-day before the Warden. Mr. Cusack, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Lambton Coal Company. Sydney
Mr. Justice Walker, sitting in Equity Jurisdiction, was occupied to-day with the matter of the Companies Act, 1899, the New Lambton Land and Coal Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in an American Mine
About a month ago a systematic effort was started to extinguish a fire that bas been raging for fifty years in one of the mines of the anthracite coal regions is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining in the Arctic
In temperate or hot countries the process of extracting gold from a placer deposit is extremely simple—if the gold is there (writes Mr. Arthur Inkersby, in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Work at the Collieries
Some of the collieries did better during the fortnight which ended on Saturday, but Dudley was the only pit to work full time. At ten other places pretty regular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electricity Direct From Coal
No doubt the problem of directly converting the chemical energy of burning carbon into electricity is theoretically capable of solution, but it will require…
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