Duty on Explosives. Attitude of Miners
The executive of the Coal and Shale Workers' Federation has been giving consideration to the effect of the new tariff on the price of the class of explosive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1920
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Miners' Mistake Burning of Effigy Sir G. Fuller Not Present
A sensation was caused yesterday at Bellbird by a large number of miners from the local colliery dragging an effigy of Sir George Fuller through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saving Waste Coal
The coal industry in Great Britain has been excited lately by rumours of a new method of washing such coal as washery-waste refuse in pit dumps, screen waste,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broken Hill Miners. Assistance From Newcastle
The executive of the committee recently formed in Newcastle to assist the wives and families of the Broken Hill miners met at the Trades Hall yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Mining Conference
An important conference of colliery proprietors and representatives of the Miners' Federation will, it is understood be held in Sydney on Thursday. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australia's Wealth Iron and Coal Reserves
Iron and coal are the master keys of the industrial world. When they occur in proximity to one another (and near a seaboard) the position is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Southern Miners
Mr. J. M. Walker, secretary to the Coke Workers' district of the Coal and, Shale Federation, returned to Sydney yesterday, after being for some days occupied in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Safety Lamps
Miners' lambs have undergone Modifications and adaptations to various fuels in the century of their existence, but have changed little in principle. That was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Constitution of Coal
The banded texture of all bituminous coal, which seems to be built up of a succession of (generally thin) dull and bright bands, had long been familiar to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Mine-sweeping Invention
H.M.S. Vernon is the home of the engineering training and experimental school of the British Navy at Portsmouth, and we are only now beginning to learn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seaham No. 1 Colliery to Re-open
In a short time West Wallsend will be again to the [?]ore as a mining township, as it is intended to reopen Seabam No. 1 colliery which, for a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Whitburn Miners
A special meeting of the Greta Miners' Lodge was hold yesterday. A letter was read from Mr. W. Brennan, the general secretary, in regard to the proprietors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Coal Trade Prospects Food for Europe First
The increased activity which has recently sprung up in Newcastle overseas coal trade (says "The Daily Commercial News and Shipping List") is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Ships in Port Busy Week Ahead Demand for Coal
There is great activity in the Newcastle shipping and coal trade at present. This is evidenced by the fact that the oversea tonnage in port this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Coal Control
The "Daily Chronicle" states that the Government intends to discontinue rationing for home consumption, but will continue to fix prices at the pithead and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Monthly Coal Export
The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during last month was 382,508 tons. Shipments for Commonwealth and New Zealand ports comprised 269,721 tons, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Village Threatened
A moving mountain is threatening the destruction of forty houses at Marday, a mining village in Glamorganshire. The pressure is bulging the walls and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Disputes
Matters in dispute at Whitburn, Bellbird and Greta collieries will be considered at conferences with the parties in Newcastle to-day. Mr. C. M. M'Donald,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Richmond-main Colliery
Richmond Main Colliery was idle yesterday in consequence of a dispute with the wheelers. It was stated they refused to work the horses, stating that they had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ships, Beware Tathra Heads Mine
The district naval officer in Sydney yesterday issued a notification that a floating object, supposed to be a mine, was observed yesterday morning…
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