Horrible Mining Fatality
A horrible fatality occurred at the Ivanhoe Mines, Kalgoorlie, on Friday. Charles Hass and a mate, George Holmes, were working on a rise between the four and five hundred feet levels…
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Mining & the mines, 1906
142 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 8
Life in the Mine
TALES OF HEROISM AND SADNESS When the pit’s mouth blazes forth like a great Vesuvius, and rock and soil and machinery are cent hurting through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Wonderful Mine of Oak Forest
A Russian timber delaer has dissloved a valuable nine of oak. it exist in a river in south Russia, has layers three or four feet deep. scattered over one hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Promising Gold Field
The Minister for Mines has received the following report from the warden (Mr. T. A. Smith) at Trunkey respecting a rich reef being worked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Commission
Mr. E. W. Knox, who supplied a strongly worded minority report on the railway coal contracts has resigned from the Commission, being unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Commission’s Report
The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the letting of coal contracts by the Railway Commissioners and into the inharmonious relations existing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining at Tuena
Tuena, Wednesday.âDiggers on the Abercrombie have started to work their claims again; the river having nearly stopped running, and giving them a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refused Applications to Lease Land for Mining Purposes
It is notified that it is intended to refuse the undermentioned applications for Dredging Leases, and that notice of such refusal will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Mine Manager Killed
The Maritzburg correspondent of the Johannesburg “Daily Mail,” South Africa, writing on December 14 says: Mr. Pitcarin, manager of the Buffalo…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Entombed
Owing to an inrush of water, five miners working in a mine in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, on Saturday, were entombed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The White Cement Minz. a Lost Gold Field
A writer in “Chambers” Journal” on the subject of “Vanished gold mines,” writes:— The story of the “White Cement” mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Kimberley Diamond Mines
When Barney Barnato first went to Kimberley, there was a certain old gentlemen in the diamond-buying line upon whom Barney and his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Bottomless Well of Gold
It would be an immense benefit to all mankind if the stores of gold now held by individuals in India could be made available for general use. Ever…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Barbarous Coal Fires.” How to Banish Fogs
The “Daily Mall.” writes that the Duke of Fife was unable to take the chair, and Sir Oliver Lodge was too indisposed to deliver his address on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Good Mining Year
The mineral product of New South Wales for the year was valued at £7,017,940, or an increase of £629,176 on that of the previous year. As a matter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glascow Fire Tracedy. Death Roll Thirty Mine Lodging-house Panic. Firemen Beaten Back by Frantic Men. Blind Man’s Gallant Rescue
The most disastrous Are experienced m Scotland for half, a century occurred yesterday morning at a model lodging house for men in Watson street, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Madagascar Goldfields
A Reuter telegram from Paris, dated 24th November, states that the decree making further regulations with regard to the gold mines in…
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A Major’s Creek correspondent reports mining matters on the Creek as excessively dull. The only claim at work is Snobbs,’ which is now down…
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All the Governments of the civilised world,and the various heads of State, have condoled with President Fallieres in connection with the colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine That Never Was. “Band of the Baker” Swindlers
On 26th December; the Paris correspondent of the “London Express” wrote:— Another exploit of the “Band or the…
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