Meerschaum Mining
In Asia Minor meerschaum mining is an important business. Pits are first dug, and as soon as a vein of meerschaum is struck horizontal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1913
448 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 23
Gold Exports. a Heavy Increase. Sydney, Thursdsay
During the past year gola valued at £12,000,000 sterling was exported from the Commonwealth to the United Kingdom, of which nearly four millions were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Coal Miners. Trouble Expected. Sydney
Trouble is expected on the Maitland coalfield in consequence of the refusal of the miners to walt any longer for the joint committee to deal with the matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland Coal Miners. Meeting Holds Up Ten Colleries. Sydney
Considerable uneasiness is felt in business circles in consequence of the decidion of the Maitland miners to stop ten big collieries on Monday in order to hold an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Russell Case. Smith Coast Miners Restless. Sydney
The position on the South Coast at present is not such as to inspire confidence. The miners demand to know whether the Associated Coal Ownors endorse the Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Scattered. Train Smashes Motor Car. London
While conveying gold to pay wages at Purfleet, a motor car stuck in a railway crossing, and the train smashed the car. The occupants escaped without injury, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining on the Clarence
In its retrospect of 1912 the "Clarence and Richmond Examiner" deals thus with mining on the Clarence:—"There has been a distinct…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Out Again. Ten Mines Possibly Idle. Sydney
The Burwood colliery, which employs about five hundred men, was thrown idle this morning in consequence of a dispute between, the management and the wheelers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Wages Raised. London
The Coal Concilliation Board has raised miners wages in the Federated area five per cent, which now is 60 per cent, above highest standards on record…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer's Coal a Fire. Mal[?]
The Clan Macrae's bunker coals got afire, and in shifting them they damaged the coal on deck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lead for Gold. Theft of £10,000
A remarkable robbery of £10,000 in gold, coin from a consignment of £200,000 despatched from the Bank of England to the offices of the Credit Lycnnais in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burwood Colliery. SYDNEY
Burwood Colliery resumed work this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scottish Miners. London
The Scottish Miners' Federation has lodged a claim for a 25 per cent. advance in wages…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rumoured Shipments of Gold. London
Rumours are current in the city that gold shipments are about to be made to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Southern Miners. the Reinstatement of Russell. Sydney
The management of Mount Kembla mines has declined to reinstate Russell. The Minister of Labour, therefore, has decided to bring the matter before the Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Theft. Committed in England. London
An analysis of the lead substituted for gold in the Alexandria consignment shows that it was ordinary English lead, suggesting that the theft was committed in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lanarkshire Miners. LONDON
The Lanarkshire miners' strike has been settled, the owners consenting not to employ non-unionists…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Fatality. Ex[?]losion at Broken, Hill. Sydney
An explosion in the South Mine, Broken Hill, caused two men named Marshall and Davis to be seriously injured. The former died in the hospital shortly after being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Situation. a More Hopeful Outlook. May Be No Split for Months. Sydney
Mr. Watson, President, and Mr. Brennan, Secretary of the Mine Employees Federation, refuse to make any statement to the press in regard to their interview with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Monument. Sydney
A monument was unveiled at West Wyalong to-day in memory of the six miners who were killed at the Barrier Mine last January…
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