Efficiency in America Mining Officials Impressions
Business and transport efficiency impressed the manager of Abermain No. 2 colliery (Mr. A. Donne) when he toured the U.S.A. recently to get first-hand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1937
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Sale of Gold to Brazil New York
The U.S. and Brazil have signed an agreement by which Brazil will buy 50,000,000 dollars (£12,500,000) worth of gold from the U.S.A. for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Open Door Began the Trouble Cause of British Mine Disaster London
A brick placed so as to keep a door open, was a preliminary cause of the explosion at Wharncilffe Colliery Yorkshire on August 4 1936 in which 57…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Meet To-day Owners and Miners' Claims Bearing on Strike Threat Sydney
The decisions reached by a conference of coal-owners to-morrow will have a vital bearing on the threatened crisis in the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Big Increase Coal Shipments for Half Year 1,696,954 Tons Exported
The coal trade at Newcastle recovered in the first six months of 1937. The increase in shipments more than offset the big reduction for the corresponding period…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mine Explosion in U.S.A. 70 Men Caught And 10 Saved Alive New York
Twenty bodies were brought to the surface after a mine explosion at Sullivan. Indiana. In all 70 men were imprisoned by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Company's Office
A new office for Hebburn Ltd, is to be erected at Weston. It will be in brick, with the usual appointments. A contract for the work has been let to Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Elrington Mine Conference
Officials of the Northern Miners' Federation. Elrington lodge and the Hebburn Co. to-day discussed matters in dispute, including "dirt fires."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold and Minerals Confidence in Gold Reports From Fields (Contributed.)
The late reaction against gold on the London Stock Exchange was taken too seriously in some quarters, especially in the case of South Africa. The world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Quiet Week Newcastle Coal Shipments
The coal trade was quiet at Newcastle this week. Shipments, including bunkers, for places beyond the State, totalled 53,350 tone—about 10,000 tons less than last…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Big Coal Parley Parties to Meet Next Week
Next week will probably determine whether there is to be a strike in the coal mines throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →F. McGRATH'S Strong Hand Gold Deposit and Sydney
It will be necessary to make two visits to the barrier to dispose of the Juvenile Handicap. Even so, 18 will possibly start in each division. The first division may…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mine Disaster 70 Trapped by Explosion 20 Bodies Recovered New York, July 16
Seventy men were trapped by an explosion in a coalmine at Sullivan, Indiana, yesterday. So far 20 bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cause of Disaster Ventilation Doors in Mine Propped Open Discipline Criticised London, July 15
A brick placed to hold open doors which were hindering cleaners, was declared to be one of the preliminary causes of the explosion at Wharncliffe…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Meet Miners Coalowners Decide Strike Steps Separate Conference With B.H.P. Company SYDNEY
A conference of the colliery proprietors from the Southern, Western, and Northern Coalfields to-day decided to confer with the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Agreement with U.S.A. Brazil to Buy £12,500,000 Worth of Gold WASHINGTON, July 15
America and Brazil have signed a financial agreement which is understood to provide for Brazil to purchase gold amounting to 50,000,000 dollars (about…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Central Miners Resume
Aberdare Central miners returned to work to-day, thereby bringing to an end a stoppage that threatened to last long…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Coal Negotiations Begun
THE opening conference on the miners' log begins to-day with a meeting between the miners' representatives and the B.H.P. Company. The B.H.P. is comparatively a new factor in the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Link with Past Gold Found in Mexico Rumours of Long Lost Mine Mexico City, July 16
Rumours of a fabulously rich lost goldmine, worked by the Spanish conquistadores, have been revived by a report that miners in the Chiriqui Province have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At Mine Conference To-day
Messrs. C. Nelson, J. Simpson, T. Hoare and H. Scanlon, who represented the Miners' Federation at the conference with the B.H.P. Company to-day to discuss [?]…
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