Cabinet Reconstruction. Miners' Association Protests. Sydney
The Secretary of the Amalgamated Miners' Association expresses the opinion that it would be preposterous to amalgamate the portfolio of Mines with that of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1914
717 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 36
South African Miners. Drawing the Court Line. Capetown
The Transvaal Miners' Association has issued a statement to the effect that it will refuse to admit colored men to its ranks in spite of the Labor Party Conference…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pneumonia in South African Mines. How to Combat It. London
The second report regarding the prevalence of pneumonia in the Rand mines has been published, and states that the normal blood serum of whit[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Fatality. Finding of the Jury. Launceston
At the coronial inquiry into the deaths of the miners John Kirby and Thomas J. Reid, who were killed in the Tasmania mine on January 2, the jury returned a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eleven Days in a Coal Bunker
An amazing discovery was made (says the Cape Town correspondent of the London "Telegraph") while the Union Castle coasting steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]Eleven Days in a Coal B[?]nker
An amazing discovery was made (says the Cape Town correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph") while the Union Castle coasting steamer Tiger was being inloaded at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Beach Mining for Gold
This week there arrived in Ballina a very large shipment of mining machinery in the form of an up-to-date hydra[?]tic sluicing plant to the value of £4000. This large…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Labor Affairs. Miners Strike. Sydney
Trouble has occurred at Gibraltar Mine at Adelong owing to the contract system. Practically all the miners are out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Out Off. Rioting at Jaegersfontein. Spread to the Cape Expected
No trains are running to the Rand mines, which have no more than a few days' supplies. The natives employed at the mines will be shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Beach Mining
What may prove an industry of far reaching benefit to Ballina and incidentally to the whole of the Northern Rivers is at present (says…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Explosion. Twelve Men Killed. Birmingham (Alabama)
An explosion due to gas originating from coal dust entomised twelve men employed by the Davis [?]reek Coal Company, though thirty men working near the [?]eventeenth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accidents. an Alarming Increase Washington
Becoming alarmed at the increase of mine accidents, during 1913, when there were 2360 deaths, the greatest number since the Federal Bureau of Mines was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TELEGRAMS. Strike Off. Huntley Miners Cry Enough. Auckland, N.Z.
The Huntley miners have decided, by a large majority to declare the strike off. It is expected that the mines will be in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local and General. Beach Mining
A company has landed £4000 worth of machinery at Ballina to try and recover gold from the sands there. The beach mining is not new on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Senghenydd Disaster. Result of the Inquiry. the Coal Dust Problem. London
At the Senghen[?] inquiry Mr. Atkinson, the Chief Inspector of Mines, invored the theory that an electric spark ignited the gas and did not agree with the theory that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Indian Sign." Californian Gold Rush Story
Nine persons of ten will tell you, if you ask them, that the reason [?]e McGoorty [?]eat [?] Smith so [?] the other night was because he had the Indian Sign on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mail Arrangements Upset. Mines Not Greatly Affected
The English mail from Durban missed yesterday in consequence of the strike. The labour situation throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Export. a Record Year. Sydney
During the last year the amount of coal exported from New South Wales was 3,236,621 tons as compared with 5,030,309 tons for 1912, and the value of these…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Idle. Horses Forced "Out." Sydney
The South Clifton colliery is idle today owing to the strike among the men in charge of the horses. Yesterday the miners turned up as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rich Gold Find. Sydney
A rich [?] of gold has been made near Trunkey, and over eighteen ounces was realised from a crushing of ten tons, for which the record price of £4 2s 6d per…
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