Mine Disaster Recalled
To-day is the 47th anniversary of the disaster at Bulli, when over 80 lives were lost in a colliery explosion. The event has significance for…
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Mining & the mines, 1934
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Gold Stealing
Following extensive police investigations throughout Charters Towers, Normanby and Mt. Coolan goldfields, John Nelson Shadbolt, 27, mill hand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lure of Gold Hardships at Tennant's Creek
Tales of great hardships being suffered by miners at Tennant's Creek are told by three men who have reached Mt. Isa after walking 200 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Plenty of Gold CALCUTTA
India's gold resources are apparently inexhaustible. Bullion to the value of £218,925 was shipped from Bombay yesterday, making the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →India's Gold Apparently Inexhaustible
CALCUTTA, Sunday:—India's gold [?] are apparently [?] Bullion to the value of £218,925 was shipped from Bombay yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miner Killed Buried Under Coal and Stone
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--William Cart-wright (29), a shiftman, of Belmont, was killed to-day when a fall of coal and stone occurred in the John…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prospect for Coal
Before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., in Murwillumbah Warden's Court yesterday, Dominie Burke, by his agent, Mr. L. A. Salmon, applied for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bendigo Gold Field Development on Large Scale
Convinced that the Bendigo gold-field offers scope for operations on a larger scale than at present, a powerful organisation, with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal for Power House Reduction of Cost Electrical Engineer Saves Council £40 p.a
Following representations made by Murwillumbah Municipal Council's Electrical Engineer (Mr. T. E. Flynn) while in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensation Possible New Queensland Gold Find
TOWNSVILLE, Sunday:-- Celebrating the eve of his 70th birthday, W. McBow came in to Charters Towers from Lolworth Creek yesterday with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold-stealing Case Six Months' Gaol Sentence Suspended
MT. COOLON (Q'ld.), Sunday.-- A sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labor, passed upon John Nelson Shadbolt (27) mill hand,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Closed for Four Years Aberdare Mine to Re-open Shortly
CESSNOCK, Monday:—Closed down nearly four years ago, resulting in the unemployment of 650 men, Aberdare mine may be re-opened shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.l.p.'s Debt to Miners Early Settlement Unlikely
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Developments in Trades Hall circles yesterday indicated that there was no immediate prospect of the miners receiving the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Search for Gold Canadian Mines Go Deeper
TORONTO, Canada.—In every likely goldfield across Canada prospectors are, with the coming of the spring, taking up where they left off last fall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extraction of Oil From Coal Plant for Australia Negotiations With British Firm
CANBERRA, Thursday:--Negotiations with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., of London, for the immediate construction in N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Oil Extraction MELBOURNE
As the location of a hydrogration plant for extracting oil from coal would carry a far-reaching advantage to the State, the Electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Food Shortage Striking Wonthaggi Coal Miners
MELBOURNE, Sunday:--So many sought help to-day, when food was distributed to the striking Wonthaggi coal miners, that the supply ran out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Disaster Men Trapped in Blazing Colliery
TOKIO, Monday:A gas explosion occurred at the Fukushima colliery, near Fukushima city. Between 50 and 100 miners are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Entombed TOKIO
Between 50 and 100 miners are entombed in Fukushima Colliery, near Fukushima City, following a gas explosion. They are trapped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Miner's Lucky Strike
Mr. Frank F. Gibson, 28 Beatricestreet. Invercargill, who has now gone gold-mining, had a lucky strike when he bought R-U-R. After suffering…
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