Gold
A little disc of minted gold In my astonished hand I hold. For multiples of this same disc, All men hold dear in life they risK…
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Mining & the mines, 1911
384 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 20
Balmain Colliery Board. Sydney
Mr. Herbert Lethbridge, in giving evidence before the Balmain Colliery Wages Board, stated from time to time that fresh capital had been put into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strong Labour Movement. Hours of Miners. London
There is a strong Labour movement in favour of an international treaty regulating the labour of miners on the basis of a universal eight hours, calculated from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Coal Mines. Sydney
The Cabinet has completed the draft of their bill in connection with the proposal to establish State coal mines. The measure is now ready for presentation to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Inundated. Montreal
The sea burnt into a colliery at Port Hood, in Nova Scotia. The workings have consequently been abandoned, and the mine is useless…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Federation. London. Friday Night
The executive committee of the Miners Federation of Great Britain has rejected the South Wales miners' appeni to financially support the Rhondda Valley strike…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Gas Explosion. LONDON.Saturday
Three seamen were asphyxiated by an expiosion of coal gas in the bunkers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Vend Cases. No Evidence for Defence. Sydney
When the vend prosecutions were resumed before the High Court to-day, Mr. Knox and Mr. Campbell, counsel for the defendunt, stated that they did not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boring for Oil. a Talk with a Mining Expert
"So far there has only been one indication in New South Wales of any likelihood of a natural supply of petreleum occurring, and that was not at Grafton."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Possible Strike
A ballot of the Northumberland coal miners is being taken on the question of a strike to ensure the abolition of the three-shift system…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Common Among Miners
"Like many other miners I contracted severe cold through coming out of the hot mine into the cool air" says Mr. W. Crouch, of Tabina-street, Broken Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Medals
YESTERDAY Mr. J. A. Petersen, jeweller, Casino, showed as thirteen gold medals which he has recently made to the order of the R.R.A.H. and P. Society. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Federation. London
The South Wales Miners' Federation have issued a manifesto to the British miners pleading for a national strike in favour of a minimum wage in all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Romance and Tragedy of Gold Rush. San Francisco Fields
Modern history anords[?] hardly any parallel in point of popular [?]inoldest, to the developent of the [?]Pache coast centres of the childed states, begnining with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Colliery. Sydney
The Wallsend Colliery has been thrown idle through the action of 50 wheelers refusing to continue work excepting under increased rates. The stoppage has thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scotch Gold Find. Miners Busy Working. London, Friday Night
The Marquis of Stafford has opened a gold mining camp at Kildonan in Scotland. The miners are busy 12 hours daily. Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatality. New York
It is announced that twenty-two miners have been killed in an explosion at the Cascade Colliery at Sykesville in Pennsylvania, which dislodged huge masses of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spontaneous Ignition of Coal
The results of a bacteriological investigation of the spontaneous combustion of coal have suggested several interesting conclusions. Cultivations were made both in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal in Papua
The Port Moresby correspondent, writing in reference to the diacovery of the new coal-fields Papua,described in the "Herald" on June 27, says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dr. Ormiston's Mining Leases
On Thursday last Mr. Warden Perry held a Warden's Court all Wilson's Downfall. The principal case was a summons by comelius J. Peoples agaist R.F.F…
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