Colliery Explosion. Great Disaster. Sydney
A colliery explosion occurred this afternoon at Mount Kembla mine, and 300 men were entombed. Parliament adjourned out of sympathy for the terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining & the mines, 1902
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Description of the Mine
Mt. Kembla is a mining township situated on one of the highest peaks on the Iliawarra range of mountains, being 1730 feet above sea level. It is distant about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. Gundagai
Mining in the Gundagai district still continues to improve. Ferguson, Gillmartin, and party put through a trial crushing of five tons at Reno from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appaling Disaster. 250 Men Entombed. Harrowing Scenes at the Mine Two Rescuers Suffocated. Over 100 Miners Killed. Thirty Still Missing. Sydney
A terrible explosion took place in the Mount Kembla colliery, Wollongong, at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, and the whole district is in a state of trouble and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fire in the Mine. the Secretary's Story
The miners' general secretary (Mr. D Ritchie) was in the Arbitration Court when the news came to Wollongong, as also was Mr. Sam Smith, M.L.A, a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Arbitration Court. Illawarra Miners' Case. Resumption of Sittings at Wollongong
The further taking of evidence in connection with the dispute between the Southern Colliery Employees' Association and the Southern Coal Proprietors was resumed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest from the City. Great Mining Disaster. 200 or 300 Men Entombed. THURSDAY, Evening
A terrible explosion has occurred at Mount Kembla mine, Wollongong: three hundred men en[?]ed. LATER (same evening)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Colliery Disaster. Explosion at Mount Kembla. Twenty Six Bodies Found. 130 Still, Missing. Small Hope of Relief. Two of the Rescue Party Succumb. Sydney
A dreadful colliery explosion took place at the Mount Kembla colliery shortly after 2o'clock this afternoon, when there were some 230 men in the mine. The explosion,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Colliery Disasters. Some Terrible Records
An hough the Mount Kembla disaster is one of the most appalling in history of Australian mining industiy, there have been at intervals catastrophes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Colliery Disaster the Most Sorrowful Thing in History. Heartrending Scenes. Ninety Lives Lost. Disaster Caused by a Naked Light the Latest News. Wollongong
On arrival at the colliery the scene was a most harrowing one. Large numbers of women were running about frantically in all directions, making…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining. Grenfell
Satisfactory accounts have been received from a new reefing locality at Bumbaldry, 17 miles from Grenfell. About 15 parties hold leases. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Colliery Disaster. SYDNEY
The official return shows that 95 bodies have been recovered from the Mt. Kembla Mine. Mr. Chamberlain cabled to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold in the Sea
The possibility of extracting from sea water the gold it contains suspended within it's mass has always formed a fascinating problem not to the chemist…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Arbitration Court. Illawarra Miners' Case. Claimants' Case Closed.—Respondents in Reply
The further hearing of the matters in dispute between the Southern Colliery Employees' Association and the Southern Coal Proprietors' Association was continued at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Yon Have a Bad Gold
You want a remedy that will give quick relief and effoot a pormunenb curc. You want a remedy that will relieve the lungs aud make expeotoration easy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amendment of the Mining Act
Thomas Smith writes: --" One of the measures the See Government has brought into operation is the Amended Alining Bill, which will en[?] il a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Rand Gold-field. London, Aug. 11
Several news papers report that discoveries have beeb made which show that the Witwatersr[?]nd reef, 0n which Johannesburg is situated, extends 30 miles to the eastward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Gold Discovery. Reefs Extend for Another Thirty Miles
Several newspapers report that discoveries show that the famous Witwatersand Reef, the backbone of the Johannesburg Goldfields, extends 30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
Several crushings from Cargo goldfield, Molong, have reurned satisfactory results. The July crushings of the Gibraltar mine's tributers—283 tons—at Adelong yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Fields
It appears from the estimates of the most trustworthy authorities that the coalfields of the world cover an area of about a million and a quarter square…
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