Price of Gold
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended June 12, is at the rate of approximately £7/17/7½ per…
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Mining & the mines, 1936
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Mining Students
Accompanied by the Sub-Registrar of the Cessnock Technical School, the mining students recently paid a visit to the Catherine Hill Bay colliery, where they…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Aberdare Central Coal Cutter
It is anticipated that the position in regard to the introduction of an electric machine into Aberdare Central will be clarified at a conference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Northern Mines Burwood Dispute Settled
A dispute over the cavil occurred at the Burwood colliery of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. yesterday, and the men returned home…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Closed Down Old Lambton Colliery Worked for 74 YEARS Link with Early Newcastle
Old Lambton colliery, one of the oldest and best known of the pits on the Newcastle and Maitland Coalfields, closed down last week after having been worked for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Quiet Week Newcastle Coal Trade 43,340 Tons Exported
Following last week's unusual activity, coal shipments cased this week. Shipments, including bunkers, for places beyond the State, totalled 3,340 tons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Power Restored Rothbury Estate Mines Work Not Held Up Police Investigate Explosions
The power which was cut off from five small mines on the Rothbury Estate early on Thursday night, following the deliberate blowing up with gelignite of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Labour Papers "No Need for New Company" Miners' Officials State Case Sydney
Officers of the Central Executive, the Northern District, the Southern District, and the Western District of the Miners Federation to-night issued the following…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gold and Minerals Gulgong and Mudgee Alluvials Reports From Fields (Contributed.)
The historic goldfields of Gulgong and Mudgee are apparently destined to important changes in the operations of their alluvial areas. Test boring of the leads is…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wallarah Colliery
Four miners, two machinemen, and a wheeler received their notices at Wallarah colliery at the last pay. The miners and the wheeler had been working as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Disputes
The Acting-President of the Northern Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kellock) attended a conference at Fairplay Colliery (New Lambton) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall of Coal
James Walsh (30), of Northcote-road, Aberdare, was struck on the head by a fall of coal while at work at Aberdare Colliery to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →40 Hours for Miners Madrid
The Government has gazetted a 40-hour week for underground coal miners and a 44-hour week lot surface workers at mines to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hamilton Disaster 47Th Anniversary To-day Miners Entombed
To-day is the 47th anniversary of the Hamilton pit disaster, in which 18 men were entombed, seven of whom were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hebburn Colliery
Messrs. E. Todd and P. Quinn, who have put the case for the senior members of Hebburn No. 2 Miners' Lodge on the question of sharing the work,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Stealing Charges Lucknow Mine Cases Sydney
Richard Brooking, senior, a farmed of The Hut, near Orange, and father of the accused of the same name, gave evidence for the Crown at the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hebburn No. 2 Colliery
After hearing addresses by the Hebburn delegates (Messrs. P. Quinn and E. Todd), Abermain No. 1 and Cessnock No. 2 Miners' Lodges last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kurri Mines Working
The two Kurri collieries, Pelaw Main and Richmond Main, were again working to-day. NO PROSECUTION.—Wagga,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Found in Tin Charge Against Two Men Alleged Theft From Mine Sydney
The finding of £585 in notes and more than 9oz. of gold in a tin under a manger at Lucknow was described in evidence at the Quarter Sessions to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forty-hour Week for Miners
Madrid, June 21.—The Government has gazatted a 40-hour week for underground coalminers and a 44-hour week for surface workers at mines to come into force…
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