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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,446 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 123
MATTERS are not nearly so bad in this district as many of us imagine thorn to be—they couldn't be—and they would be a far lot better If we would only determine to act with courage and determination. Yesterday this paper published returns made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All collieries on the South Maitland Coalfields will be Idle on Wednesday next, when a stop-work aggregate meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mines Department recognises the danger both of explosions and of gas poisoning in the Greta area, and has asked the Greta councillors to warn the people not to approach close to the area from which the smoke fumes are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following report of an inspection made in No. 8 slant north-east and portion of the north-east dips in Richmond Main Colliery has been supplied to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. John Sneddon, Check Inspector, Stockton-Borehole Lodge, writes—"I notice-comments by Mr. I. Hoare, District Check Inspector, and Mr. T. Hoare,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It has been decided to increase employees at the Bulli Colliery by 54 men beginning with the first shift worked next week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The price at the Melbourne Mint is approximately £6/3/10 per ounce standard, of, 22 carat which is 1/2 per ounce higher than the price ruling during the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The hoarding of money, in whatever form, whether by banks or financial institutions, or by the individual in an old stocking, beyond the wage and capital…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →With a smoke pall hanging like a fog over the town on calm evenings and the air laden with sulphurous fumes, Greta is in hourly fear of an explosion from fire in the workings in the old Anvil Creek mine, which is blazing furiously underground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with the theft of 26cwt of coal, the property of the Railway Department, on April 14, Victor Skinner, 21, labourer, was fined £5, in default imprisonment for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) agrees to grant the South Maitland deputies the conference…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Seventy-two per cent. of the estimated output of 21,400,000 ounces of gold throughout the world in 1931 was won from mines in the British Empire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It has been decided to increase the number of employees at Bulli Colliery by 54, commencing with the first shift worked next, week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold was quoted to-day at £5/10/6 per oz fine, a rise of 7d on the previous day's quotation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The trouble caused at Greta from the smoke and gas issuing from small subsidences in the roof of the old Anvil Creek Colliery, Greta originated some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fires in the Anvil Creek mine took a sensational turn shortly before 11.30 to-day, when the dense volumes of gaseous smoke pouring from the cavity burst into flame…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Looking into the mouth of the crater of the old Anvil Creck Colliery at Greta. Since the mine caught fire people living in the locality have been startled by explosions and driven from their homes by acrid smoke fumes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reginald Toby, of Station-street, Waratah, Daniel Donoghue, of Dawson-street, Waratah, and Daniel Meehan, of Prince-street, Waratah,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia was the first British Dominion to produce millions of pounds' worth of gold in one rear. From alluvial mining after the discoveries of 1851 there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock residents are also worried concerning an underground colliery fire. For some time residents of East End have complained…
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