£10,000 DAMAGE Big Fire in Colliery Workings Gutted Wallarah Miners Rescued in Time
The biggest and most spectacular fire in the history of Catherine Hill Bay completely destroyed the workshops of the Wallarah…
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Mining & the mines, 1936
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Volunteer Crews Three Ships Leave Port Others to Follow Seamen Seek Support of Miners
The Iron Crown (Interstate Steamships Ltd.), Koonda (McIlwraith, McEacbarn Ltd.), and Craigend, the agent for which is G. P. Whiley, left Newcastle yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery to Resume Work
Abermain No. 2 Colliery will resume work on Monday. The mine has been . Idle for three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Miners for Elrington
Eight additional miners will commence work at E[?]ington Colliery on Monday. A special meeting of the lodge will be held on Sunday to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Meetings at Week-end Seamen, Miners and Unemployed Shipping Strike
Mass meetings of seamen, miners and unemployed will be held in the North on Sunday to discuss the introduction…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Unions Are to Confer Policy on Strike Assistance for Seamen More Ships to Sail Sydney
The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W, Orr) said to-day that a meeting of mining unions would be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Delegates Addressed
On behalf of the Central Strike Committee, the leader (Mr. J. Keenan) addressed the afternoon session of the Miners' Conference and outlined the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Miners' Elections
As the preliminary step in the annual election of officers of the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union nominations closed on Monday night, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Miners at Elrington
More miners are to be employed at Elrington colliery when work is resumed after the holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price of Gold
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended December 27 is at the rate of approximately £8/0/4…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Propositions Dropped
The decision by the big Anglo-Queensland Mining Company not to exercise important options over two big Queensland mining propositions, one in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Kurri Mines to Start on
The two Kurri collieries, Richmond Main and Pelaw Main, will resume operations on Monday. Richmond Main has been idle for the past…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallarah Colliery Workmen Clearing Up Ruins Hopes for Resumption
Workmen have begun to clear away the debris and ruins of the workshops which were destroyed in the fire at the Wallarah colliery, Catherine Hill Bay, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sun Stop Press Miners and Ship Strike
Sydney, Friday.—The conference of mining unions in Sydney to-day de-decided unanimously to call aggregate meetings of all miners on all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold and Minerals Insignificant Increase Reports From Fields
The gold production of Australia is estimated at £8,500,000, compared with £7,500,000 in 1934. The increase on the year's activities is thus estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Revival Australian Production £8,000,000 Last Year Melbourne
The steady revival in the gold-mining industry of Australia is reflected in the estimated gold yield for 1935 of 900,000 fine ounces, valued at about £8,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Loadings Improvement Last Year Newcastle Trade Increase of 431,904 Tons
Yearly returns made available by the Berthing Master (Mr. E. W. Keats) of the quantity of coal loaded at the cranes at Carrington for 1935 disclose that there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Money in Low Grade Gold Big Dividend in W.A. Show Melbourne
Second on the 1935 list of gold-mining dividend-payers, Wlluna Gold Corporation Ltd. provides a notable example of long-sighted mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Race Reviews For Moorefield To-morrow Bachian May Atone in Gold Cup Cid And Bombus Will Be Dangerous
The Peter Moore Gold Cup has attracted an excellent field of 15, with Silver Jubilee topweight with 9.5. Bachian, who was only beaten in the last half furlong of the A.J.C. Handicap, is expected to win from Cid and Bombus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Moves Awaited in Shipping Trouble to Frame a Policy Mining Unions' Conference Strike Issue Sydney
Attention in the shipping world to-day is centred in the conference of mining unions, which is meeting at the rooms…
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