Dispute at Colliery NEWCASTLE
According to the manager of Dudley colliery, sufficient labour is now available to resume operations, but no date for working the colliery has been…
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Mining & the mines, 1937
596 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 30
Fortress Of Gold
The new £120,000 depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, which has been built for the express purpose of accommodating America's 10,000,000,000 dollar bullion hoard. Beyond the steel fence, which encircles the entire building and can be electrified, lies an open moat. The machine-gun…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Work for Many Miners One Benefit of Lord Nuffield's Munificence
LONDON Wednesday:-- Negotiations have been carried through resulting in an agreement between the trustees of the Nuffield £2,000,000 fund…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australia's Gold Yield. Worth £10,104,817 Last Year
Gold production in Australia in 1936 of 1,167,126 fine oz. was the greatest for 18 years, and was valued at £10,104,817 (Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →23 Men Perish Greek Tanker Strikes Mine
LONDON, Thursday:--A message from Perpignan states that the Greek tanker Loukia, carrying 3000 ton of oil struck…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tanker Strikes Mine And Sinks PERPIGNAN
The Greek tanker, Loukia, carrying 23,000 tons of oil, struck a mine during a storm to-day in almost the same spot as the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£10,104,817 Last Year Australia's Gold Yield
CANBERRA, Friday: -- Australia's gold yield for 1936 was 1,167,126 fine ounces, valued at £10,104,817 in Australian currency. The value of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Italy's Gold Reserves Rome
The Italian gold reserves are valued at £43.700.000 at current rates…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trouble in Tunis Mines Arabs Attack Europeans
TUNIS, Saturday:--Four Arabs were killed and many wounded when the police again opened fire on strikers in the mining district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mur-bah Chamber of Commerce Aerodrome Proposal Freight on Coal Further Dicussed
Further reference to rail freight on coal was made at last night's meeting of Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce. At a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Men Killed Tragedies in W.A. Gold Mines
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday:--Two fatal mining accidents to-day, one at Norseman and the other at Boulder, increased the industry's death roll…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Gold Field. Miners Making £40 TO £50 Per Week. Sydney
Mr. J. Pollard, who has spent 12 years in New Guinea, arrived in Sydney to—day. In an interview he said miners on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amusements School of Arts "The Mine With the Iron Door"
Two generations have thrilled to the story of "The Mine With the Iron Door." one of the most popular of all Harold Bell Wright's popular…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mobile Forces In New Offensive 12-Mile Advance But Madrid's Fall Is Not Imminent City Surrounded By Mines LONDON
A SPANISH rebel offensive, involving 30,000 men, led by Italians whose desire to maintain their prestige forbids risking defeat, was directed at Madrid to-day on the Guadalajara Sector…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →From Coal to Steel Newcastle Impressions of City and the Hunter
Mr. A. C. Pratt, of Tyalgah, who recently visited the Newcastle and Hunter River District, interviewed by a "Tweed Daily"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Huge Pay-outs of Dividends Great Return to Gold Investors
JOHANNESBURG:-- During January the gold mines of the Witwatersrand distributed in dividends to shareholders £8,750,009, which, together…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →18 Killed in Mine Explosion
NEW YORK, Saturday--Eighteen miners were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine, near Logan (W. Virginia) Rescue workers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floor "Payed with Gold" Responsible Job For Charlady (From A Special Correspondent.) LONDON, February 27 (By Air Mail)
The most responsible "charlady's" job in London is vacant. The successful applicant will be working on floors paved with gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →41 Men Asphyxiated Fighting Fire in Japanese Coal Mine
TOKIO, Tuesday: — Forty-one men were asphyxiated while fighting a fire in a coal mine at Osawa. The death roll expanded owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Victims Died From Concussion Melbourne
Medical opinion given at the inquest to-day into-the deaths of 13 men who lost their lives in Wonthaggi mine a few weeks ago…
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