Germans in Belgium. Raising Coal. Amsterdam
The Germans are employing 40,000 miners at work in the collieries at Mons, Li[?]ge, and Charleroi. They are sending the coal and timber…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1915
602 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 31
Clearing the Baltic. of German Mines. Copenhagen
A flotilla of Swedish torpedo boats is engaged in clearing away the German mines which suspended shipping between Stockholm and Gothland for Several days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Coal Dust Explosions
The behaviour of a coal-dust explosion depends primarily on its initial cause, and on the degre of agitation during its first moments, as well as on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Resins in Coal
The heating value of coal depends en the ingredients it contained as well as the geologic processes to which it has been subjected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosions in Mines. British Committee's Report
The sixth and last report of the Home Office (England) Committee on Explosions in Mines contains an account of a number of phases of the investigation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Brown Coal
Mr. Hyman Herman, Director of Geological Survey in Victoria, has issued the following report:— "On the 16th October last, in company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. the Afternoon Shift
The position, so far as a settlement of the strike is concerned, on its face value, has not improved, but the fact remains that the parties have been brought…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hydraulic Mining Cartridge. a Substitute for Blasting
A description was given in a paper by Mr. James Tonge, read before the Society of Engineers, London, of an hydraulic mining cartridge, which is designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Jesmond Colliery
The trouble at Jesmond Colliery remains unsettled. A meeting of the miners employed at the colliery was held at Shaw's hotel Plattsburg, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dudley Colliery
In consequence of the trouble with the wheelers, Dudley Colliery has been idle since Monday. The wheelers are paid 2½d per ton, and have made a claim for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian Ship Wrecked. Struck an Austrian Mine. Rome
The Italian merchant ship Varesa struck an Austrian mine at Pola. The whole of her crew were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Afternoon Shift Proposals
The quarterly meeting of the Colliery Employees' Federation delegate board was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. There was a full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minmi Miners
The quarterly meeting of the Back Creek Duckenfield Miners' Lodge was held in Peel's Hall. Minmi, on Thursday evening, Mr. W. M'Blane presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Western Mining Award. Sydney
The applications for suspension, of certain clauses of the award of the Coal and Shale Mining (West) Group, No. 1 Board, pending the hearing of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Matters. the Afternoon Shift
Mr. W. Brennan, secretary to the Federation, has forwarded to Mr. N. J. Clark, secretary to the Proprietors' Defence Association, a letter, the text of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collie Coal
In proposing the toast of "The Collie Mining Industry," at a social held in Collie (W.A.), recently, Mr. C. E. Street, the local station master, said that as far…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yorkshire Miners. Ballot for Strike. London
A ballot has been taken in West Yorkshire, subject to the decision of the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Dudley Trouble Settled
A special meeting of Dudley miners and wheelers was held yesterday morning at Adamstown. Mr. W. Cox presided. Mr. A. Lewis treasurer of the Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burwood Colliery
Burwood Colliery was thrown idle on Monday. Half a dozen chitter pickers employed on the travelling belt, refused to join the union, and the other boys…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Colliery
Waratah Colliery was thrown idle on Monday afternoon. One of the clippers was instructed to clip on and clip off, a work he declared he could not do, and…
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