State Coal Mine
Mr. Pittman (Government Geologist), with Mr. Atkinson (Chief Inspector of Coal Mines), and Mr. Humble (senior inspector) were to go to Lithgow on Monday to select…
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Mining & the mines, 1911
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Safeguarding Mines
In October last Mr. Winston Churchill (Home Secretary) appointed a Departmental Committee, with Mr. C. F. G. Masterman M.P., as chairman, to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lost Coal Trade. London
Owing to the colliery troubles in South Wales Americans are exporting 350,000 tons of coal to Harve and Italy whence the returning vessels call at Spain for iron ore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Federal Gold Reserve. Melbourne
The sold reserve at the Federal Treasury weighs eleven tons and is valued at £1,451,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Starving Miners. Effects of a Strike. London
The "Daily Express" reports that hundreds of the families of the 12,000 striking miners at Mid-Rhondda are on the verge of starvation, Women and children often…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Vend
AN important meeting of the Coal Vend Association was held at Newcastle. There was a large representation of coal proprietors. The proceedings were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Mining Troubles. Sydney
Mr. W. Kearsley, M.L.A. for NorthuMberlarid, has placed before the Minister for Labour (Mr. Deeby) a proposal for the establishment of a permanent court for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Coal Trade
The Delegate Board of the Miners Federation gave consideration on Wednesday to a proposition forwarded by the Abermain Lodge to the effect that representations…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining Camps Destroyed. C[?]rson City (Nevada)
An avalanche destroyed the mountain mining camps of Lundy. M[?]no and Jordan and there are over 20 dead. Rescuc partics are snow shoeing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£24,000 Dinner Service. Silver and Gold for a U.S. "Copper King."
Senator W. A. Clark, the Montana "copper king," who has overshadowed all other plutocrats of the United States with the magnificence of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Coat, Mine. Sydney
The Cabinet has docided that the question of establishing. a State co[?]l mine should only be dea[?]t with by the Cabinet. as a whole and not by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unemployed Miners. Proposals for Relief. Sydney
Some miners out of employment at Newcastle are not satisfied with the proposal of the Minister for Works to provide employment on public works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Mining Reports. Sydney
One hundred ounces of gold were obtained from one hundredweight of stone from the Long Tunnel mine at Gundagai. The last Bullfinch crushing of 237 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal on the Upper Clarence and Richmond
GIVING evidence before the Decentralisation Commission in Sydney Mr. Pittman, under-Secretary for Mines, stated:—They knew there was coal in the country which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Find. Sydney
Another rich find has been made at Rice's mine on Long Flat near Gundagai, about 90 pounds weight of specimens yielding 180 ounces of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rivertree Silver Mines
RIVERTREE silver mines promise to show as much activity in the near futures as they did many years ago, when the Rivertree Proprietary Company, the Wongibar, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rich Gold Find. Sydney
Further particulars of the rich gold field at Gundagal show that 269ozs. of gold have already been taken out, while a number of rich specimens have not yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Measuring the Mine
Mr. John Gray, the treasurer of the Royal Anthropological Institute, has invented a machine which is said to give a very good idea of mental…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Discovery. Sydney
A 300th stone yielded 350 ounces gold at the Long. Tunnel mine near Gundagai, while a large body of crushing ore is in sight that is estimated to go 50 ounces…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mine Enplosion. Pittsburgh (Kansas)
Five persons were killed by the explosion at the mine of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway…
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