Swedish Difficulty. Want of Coal Copenhagen
Great anxiety is felt in Sweden owing to the non-arrival of coal from England Gas works and private factories are in a desperate position…
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Mining & the mines, 1915
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The Dardanelles. Turkish Mine Destroyed. Enemy's Enormous Losses. Paris
An official communique says:—The Turks on Friday attacked at several points on the Dardanelles front by mining, which they have not hitherto adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District. Colliery Mechanics' Association. Question of Levies
A decision of interest to the Colliery Mechanics' Association was given at the Industrial Court, West Maitland, yesterday, by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., in two cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Letters to the Editor. the Mining Position
Sir,—No one could conceive of a more selfish and senseless effusion than that of "Dieu-et-Mon-Droit" for the public's perusal. It a proprietor will not allow a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the British Line. Mining Activity. London
Field-Marshal Sir John French reports that the situation has been uncharged since the 15th instant. There has been considerable mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters to the Editor. the Mining Position
Sir,—Permit me to offer a few short comments on Mr. R. K. Archdell's better in your issue of September 18, and also on the mining position generally. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in a Colliery. Seventeen Miners Killed. London
A fire has ocucrred in the shaft of the Exhall Colliery at Nuncaton, in Warwickshire. There were 250 men bolow, and 200 were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland Government Mines. Brisbane
Mr. Hamilton, the Minister for Mines, states that he has secured several areas for State coalmines on the Bowen coalfield, and there will be a State coalmine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. the Stop-work Notices
The fourteen days' notice of the termination of the present terms of employment, which have been served on colliery proprietaries as the outcome of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters to the Editor. the Mining Position
Sir,—I arg[?]d in my letter of September 18th that if any party to an agreement repudiates that agreement when it sees a chance of bettering itse[?] of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Matters. Conference Granted. No Cessation of Work
Mr. Justice Higgins, in the Federal Arbitration Court, Melbourne, on Thursday granted an application on behalf of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Matters. Work at the Pits
There was more than usual activity at the district during the pay ending on Saturday, and half the collieries got in full time. This activity was due…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Employees' Federation
Sir,—I wish the public to see how the federation have treated a few of their old members. I don't suppose that one-half the members knew there was an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Welsh Mining Trouble. London
Upwards of 20,000 Welsh anthracite miners have determined to strike unless the owners uniformly Interpret Lord St. Aldwyn's latest award…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hebburn Miners
The quarterly meeting of the Hebburn miners was held in the Olympia Hall on Sunday morning Mr. G. Avis occupied the chair. Mr. Prescott was appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →King Coal
We may get some idea of what a great coal strike would mean in war time from another part of Mr. Lloyd George's speech. "Coal," he said, "brings meat and bread…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tasmania's Coal Output
The report of the Tasmanian Department of Mines for 1914 sets out the coal production in that State in that year as 60,794 tons, valued at £270,853. being an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. the Compulsory Conference
Mr. N. J. Clark, secretary to the Colliery Proprietors' Association, left Newcastle on Monday for Melbourne, where he will attend on Thursday a compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Humidity of Mine Air
An investigation of the humidity of mine air with especial reference to the coal mines in Illinois has just been completed under a co-operative agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Burn Coal Like Oil
Crude oil as a competitor of coal may (says "Coal Age") have a solar plexus blow dealt it soon if the invention contemplated by an official of the…
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