Cobar Mine. Work to Be Resumed. Sydney
The Great Cobar Mine, which recently closed down owing to lack of coke supplies due to the Southern coal strike, will resume work next week…
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Mining & the mines, 1913
448 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 23
Labor Affairs. British Miners. Syndicalists Defeated. London
The Northumberland Miners' Council by forty-two votes to.nineteen defeated a Syndicalist motion urging the organisation of all grades of labor with a view to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Regulations. Sydney
Instructions have been given to the Great Cobar North Mines to construct ventilation drives between the various levels as a safety provision. This is an enforcement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Smyrna Mines. Another Steamer Sunk. Constantinople
As the steamer Nevada, flying the American flag, was leaving Smyrna yesterday she struck two mines in quick succession, and a third explosion occurred within two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northumberland Miners. London
The Northumberland miners have secured an increase of 6¼ per cent. In their wages…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Richest Mine. Underground Water
It is not surprising that the settlers of the dry belts of Queensland and New South Wales turned their attention, after experiencing a few droughts, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Paved Streets. an African Instance
Travellers assure us that at Axim, on the Gold Coast of Africa, gold may be picked up on the streets. One Briton, naturally, thought of this as a mere figure of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Vend
It was cabled last week that the Privy Council had dismissed the appeal of the Commonwealth Government in the Vend case. It is just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Union. Melbourne
The President of the Federated Mining Employees' Association of Australia told a gathering of the Bendigo branch of the Association that if a strike occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Natural Refrigerating Mine
A natural refrigerating chamber, which has [?]g been known as the Sweden Valley Ice Mine, and which is [?] curious that it has often been regarded as apocryphal,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany's Tower of Gold
Even the modern burglar with his oxy-acetylene gas would find some difficulty in getting at the France-German war indemnity stored up in the Julius…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South African Politics. Limiting Work Hours in Mines. Capetown
Mr. Smuts, speaking in the South African Assembly, said he was not sanguine of anything better being done in the immediate future in regard to a naval…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accident. Burned Men Rescued. Pittsburg
Thirty miners have been Imprisoned following upon an explosion in the Susquea-0 anna Coal Co.s shaft in the Shamohim district. Six men, much burned, have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal at Urbenville
The residents of Urbenville are likely to be blessed with coal in the near future, as a measure has been opened up in that district. The butter factory is going to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strike at Government Mine. Melbourne
Over 700 miners and wheelers are now on strike at the State Coal Mine, Victoria. Efforts are being made to effect a compromise…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Thieves. Robbing a Battery House. Melbourne
On Saturday night thieves entered the battery house at the claim of Frenchman's Reef Co., Daylesford, Victoria, and carried off the battery plates, on which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Strike Threatened. South African Miners. Johannesburg
A strike of the Kleinfontein miners for the recognition of the union threatens to lead to a general strike in South Africa. The trade unlons have been instructed to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor Affairs. State Mine in N. Z. Idle. Wellington
The Greymouth State Coal Mine, New Zealand, is idle owing to a dispute with the engine drivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor Affairs. Northern Miners. Proposed Court Declined. Sydney
The Minister for Labor, the Hon. A. C. Carmichael, has received a communication from the secretary of the Colliery Employees' Federation declining the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Coal Mine. the Strike in Victoria. Melbourne
The men employed at the state coal mine in Victoria numbering about 500. have decided not to return to work pending the settlement of the dispute and a…
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