Fell 30 Ft. Down Mine Spent Night at Foot of Shah
How a man fell down an old mine shaft at Cardiff recently and had to remain there all night until rescued the next…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1939
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Big Coal Heap Afire Strenuous Fight at Port Kembla WOLLONGONG
As a result of spontaneous combustion following wet weather last week, a fire broke out to-day in a heap of coal containing 32,000 tons at the coke works…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Freight on Coal Anomalies "Cheaper to Rail Outside State" SYDNEY
The policy of the Railway Department was to charge less for freight on coal sent outside New South Wales than for coal transport from one point to another…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Explosives Left in Mine, Says Witness Commission Told of Danger "Detonator Caps in Screens"
The finding of plugs of powder and detonator caps by men working on the screens at Wallarah Colliery was alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flashes From Machines "Common Occurrence at Wallarah Mine" Evidence at Inquiry Official Version of Flooding at Dudley
Flashes on the electric coal-cutting machines, and damaged cables, were very common at Wallarah colliery, a machineman told the Royal Commission on Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Union Ban Coal Mined at Small Collieries SYDNEY
Steps to declare "black" all coal mined at non-union small collieries will be taken when the Miners' Central Council meets is Sydney next Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coal for Bunnerong About 3000 Tons Weekly From Northern Mines
The Railway Department is beginning to move coal from Northern collieries to the Bunnerong power-house in fulfilment of contracts recently entered into…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shot - Firing in Mines One Fatality in Five Years
A report dealing with shot-firing in collieries in New South Wales, which was read to the' Royal Commission into Health…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Solomon Island Gold Companies' Shares Rise MELBOURNE
A feature of trading on the Melbourne Stock Exchange to-day was the new peak prices for shares in companies interested in Solomon Island gold propositions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labour Unrest in Saar Miners Want Higher Wages PARIS, May 3
Herr Buerckel, the Nazi civil administrator of Moravia, hurried from Moravia to the Soar to deal with labour troubles which resulted from a demand by miners…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cost Would Be High Production of Coal-oil CANBERRA
Indications were that the cost of producing oil from coal would be so high that the Government would not be justified in encouraging the development of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Stack Being Moved Effort to Get to Seat of Fire WOLLONGONG
Owing to a fire in a coal stack at the Australian Iron and Steel Works where 10,000 tons is threatened, no-work whistles have been blown at Mount Keira,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shotfirers Too Rushed "Cannot Be Blamed For Accidents" Commission Evidence Inspection of Small Mines to Be Arranged
Shotfirers could hardly be blamed for colliery accidents, because they were always rushed and were unable to do their work properly, a witness told the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners' Federation
The District President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. T. Hoare), with his northern colleagues, visited the South Maitland field yesterday the greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Federation
Sir,—At the last Northern District Board of Management meeting I attended to put the case on behalf of the cavilled-out men against a decision of Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Aberdare Prospector Mining for Gold Labour Conditions Suspended For Three Months
John Rhone, of Greta-street, Aberdare, applied in the Warden's Court at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday for the suspension of labour conditions for six…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Japanese Miners Drowned Tokio, May 4
Fifteen miners were drowned when a ferry capsized off the island of Honshui, in the Akita prefecture. This area was severely shaken by an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil From Coal Process Canberra
In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. R. James (Lab., Hunter) referred to arrangements that had been made for an inspection of a process for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →To-day's Accidents Struck by Coal
When he was struck by a piece of coal while working on a scaffold at Aberdare Central Colliery to-day Raymond McCrohan (38), miner of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →20,000 Tons of Coal Shipped To-day
With nine interstate, two overseas and one collier loading coal and bunkering at Newcastle, the shipment for to-day is expected to be in the vicinity…
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