How Gold can it be. There Is No Limit to Heat
What is the coldest possible temperature? Is there, then, any limit to the degree of coldness that can be obtained or imagined? As we know of no definite upper…
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Mining & the mines, 1911
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Mining Disaster. Finding at the Inquiry. Vancouver
An inquiry has been held regarding the disastrous explosion which occurred in the Bellevue colliery at Crows' Nest, in the Rocky Mountains, British Columbin, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Porcupine Creek. Success of New Goldfield. Vancouver
English and Canadian capital is flowing in to purchase claims on the new goldfield at Porcupine Lake on the borders of Hudson Bay. Many free gold veins have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Coal Mines. Three to Be Established
Mr. Edden (Minister for Mines), with Mr. Pittman (Under-Secretary for Mines) and Mr. Humble (Chief Inspector of Coal Mines) went on a visit to Wonthaggi (Vic.) for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Engineers
The annual meeting of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers was held in Melbourne on January 16. In moving the adoption of the balance-sheet the chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Electricians' Certificates. London
Mr. Kelbtern Scott, in a paper read before the Mining and Electrical Engineers' Association on the use of electricity in New South Wales collieries, urged that when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Effect of Gold Production
THE economics branch of the Science Conference in Sydney him been parliamentary happy throughout its deliberations in the choice of topical subjects. Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goal Mining. Sydney
Mr. A. Edden, Minister for Mines, re turned to Sydney to-day from his inspection of the Victorian State coal mine at Powlett River…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Exploring New Guinea. a Nine-foot Coal Seam. the White Man's False Teeth
A paper describing an exploration in 1908 of the Purari River, New Guinea, was submitted to the geographical section of the Science Congress on Friday by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Grievances. Sydney
The miners nt Shortland Colliery, in the Newcastle district, threatea to give 14 days' notice unless their grievances are redressed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collieries Closing Down. Sydney
A number of the northern collicries are closing down owing to the slackness of trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Collieries
According to reports from Newcastle the Lymington Colliery is to be closed down for three months, and it is generally understood that the Burwood Extended,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trafficking in Gold
The Premiers of New South Wales and South Australia have agreed to copy Victorian legislation to prevent illegal trafficking in gold…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Train Bolts. Sydney
A heavily laden coal train became unmanageable while descending a steep grade near Adamstown, in the Newcastle district, yesterday afternoon. Gathering speed as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Federation and Kethel and Co
The Delegate Board of the Newcastle Miners' Federation considered a motion from the Durwood Lodge that the trustees appointed by the almiated unions should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Entombed. Rescuers' Gallant Struggle. Paris
The collapse of a claypit at Vincsville, in Normandy, entombed two miners. Rescuers lowered sixteen loaves, some soup, fifty quarts of cider, and a quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Coast Seandal. Miners Herding in Huts. Ten People Crowded with Typhold Patient
The principal assistant medical officer of the Board of Health (Dr. Willis) has been investigating health conditions on the South Coast coalfields, and has reported a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Refuses Coal Mine. Sydney
The Minister for Mines has declined the offer by the Muswellbrook Coal Coy, of the property said to be suitable for a State coal mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Housing the Miners
The report of the President of the Board of Health, Dr. Ashburton Thompson, on the recent visit of Dr. Willis, the principal assistant medical officer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Re-opening Gold Mines. London, Wednesday Afternoon
The Duke of Sutherland is re-opening the gold diggings at Kildonam, a Sutherland parish, 83 miles N.N.E. of Dingwall. Gold was mined there in 1868-9 and…
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