Winning Gold from Beach Sand
For years efforts have been made to save the gold and platinum from the black sands of the North Coast beaches. Many processes were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1917
810 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 41
Mining Fatalty. Sydney
A miner names J. Gill was killed by a fall of stone at Clifton colliery yesterday. His mate was badly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Supply
PETROGRAD, Saturday.--The Ministry is considering the question of the State trol of the coal supply. It intends to create a Ministry of Labor and to revise the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Famine
COPENHAGEN, Monday.--The city is threatened with a coal famine. It is expected the theatres will be closed from 1st May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Centre of Mining Towns
LONDON, Monday.--The actual occupation of Lens is explainable by the fact that Lens itself is merely the centre of a circle of mining towns and villages forming a vast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Ice Mine
Unbelievable as it may seem, there exists at Coudersport, Pennsylvania, an ice mine. It was discovered some 18, years ago by a farmer who, noting a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor Affairs. N.z. Miners' Strike Unchanged
WELLINGTON, Tuesday.--The New Zealand strike situation is unchanged. Laborites have offered to find homes for 1000 women and children from the mining districts during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Save Your Silver and It Will Turn Into Gold
Seventeen and sixpence saved now, whether in one sum or by means of the simple sixpence, will be worth £1 to you in three years if invested in war savings…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →N.z. Coal Strike. a Miner Arrested. Alleged Breaches of Avar Regulations
WELLINGTON, Wednesday.--The coal strike in New Zealand is spreading. A miner arrested at Otago had been addressing men in terms involving alleged breaches of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor Affairs. N.z. Miners' Strike
WELLINGTON, Thursday.--It has been made clear the New Zealand coal miners' strike is directly aimed at conscription. Additional mines have been reported idle and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Trouble
SYDNEY, Friday.--The Colliery Employees' Federation urges its members to refrain from striking without first trying to have their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners and the I.W.W. SYDNEY
Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the Coal and Shale Employees Federation, said to-day that there was no likelihood of the New Zealand coal trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Employees' Grievances
SYDNEY, Friday.--The Colliery Employees' Federation urged members to re[?]ram from striking without first trying to have their grievances adjusted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor Affairs. New Zealand Miners
SYDNEY Friday.--The Sydney conference of coal employees decided to assist the New Zealand miners where necessary, and prevent any unnecessary extension of the strike…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.z. Coal Strike Not Extending. Opposed to Any General Cessation
SYDNEY, Friday.--Mr. Willis, secretary "of the Coal and Shale Employees' Union stated this morning there was no likelihood of the trouble in New Zealand extending to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World's Gold Production
The "Statist" estimates the world's gold production in 1916 at £95,725,000, or at about £2,000,000 less than in 1915. Of this total £60,188,000 was the output of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal Lodged. Mrs. Egan and the Miners' Association
SYDNEY Monday.--The defendants in the recent action in which Frances Egan, a married woman, secured damages from the Barrier branch of the Amalgamated Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.z. Miners to Resume Work
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A cable from New Zealand says:--It has been definitely decided that the miners will resume work to-morrow. The statement that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.Z. Coal Strike Over. Wellington, N Z.
It was reported last night that the coalminers' strike was over. Later it was announced that the miners would resume work to-morrow. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Idle
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Over 400 men are idle at the Woonoona collieries owing to local disputes…
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