Straight Australian Down in the Coal Mines
COAL miners in Gippsland (V.) have lately been experiencing a taste of capitalistic chivalry. For a long time after the stubbornly fought strike in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining & the mines, 1907
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Colliery Closes Down
Owing to alleged danger from the electric coal-cutting machines, the men of the No. 1 tunnel at the Hebburn colliery, Kurri Kurri (N.S.W.) refused to work. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Price of Coal a Serious Rise. Export Duty Required. London
A serious rise in the price of coal has revived the agitation for the re-imposition of the export duty of 1s per ton. The large exports are embarassing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines and Miners
The Stanthorpe Tin Co.'s dredge (N.S.W.) won 1 ton for 117 hours' sluicing last week. A quantity of scheelite ore from Manilla is being sent to Sunny Corner for…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Hebburn Colliery Trouble
The Hebburn (N.S.W.) coal-miners are still out, and there does not seem to be any immediate prospect of the trouble being settled. The committee of management of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Gold Stealing
The Bendigo Miners' Association at a largely attended meeting, held on Sept. 7, to discuss the gold stealing evil, resolved:- That the Government bo requested to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Series of Accidents to Miners
A chapter of accidents to miners occurred at Broken Hill on Sept. 6, the day of the dust-storm. A miner named Kelly, working in the 400ft. level of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mining
From 1887 to 1907 (both years inclusive), Parliament voted a sum of £435,678 to the prospecting board, and the actual expenditure (exclusive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reported Gold Find
A telegram from Kalgoorlie says: A blackfellow came into Pin Gin with a fait parcel of heavy gold, which he says he got some 150 miles to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Harden Gold Robbery. Accused Before the Court
At the Murrumburrah Police Court on Friday, Thomas Hickman and Geo. M'Bean were charged with breaking and entering the extractor house of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Pine Grove
As there have been a good many false reports about the Pine Grove rush, a correspondents ends us the correct report. Starting from the prospecting claim,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
All the surface ha[?] at the Phoenix copper mine, O'Connell (N.S.W.) have been discharged, but the miners are still working. The Australian gold production for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal-miners of Gippsland
Eight or nine years ago a man in search of work couldn't have struck a likelier spot than Korumburra. The Coal Creek, Outtrim, and Jumbunna mines were in full…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining on the Rand. Employment of Natives
Though the employment of the number of natives in tie Rand mines is increasing, the cost of mining is also increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Strike
Coaling operations for the French mail steamer ceased this morning ,owing to the Unionists refusing to work with non-Unionists…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining
J. Bradley's application for a mineral lease of 40 acres, on Yarran: gobilly River, Lobbs Hole, has been refused…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unionist Coal-lumpers. Object to Free Laborers
Unionist coal-lumpers employed on the wharves refused this morning to work with free laborers employed as shovellers. Other unionists were put on in their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
"Splendid ore" is reported from the Feld-worth Silver-mine, Yerranderie (N.S.W.) The Reform Tin Company's dredge (N.S.W.) has been moved to a new site…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Price of Coal
The selling price of Newcastle coal for next year will be discussed at a meeting of colliery owners within the next two weeks. It is stated that no coal can be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illicit Gold Buying
Many extraordinary statements, some of them evidently exaggerated, have been made in Victoria of late about the extent to which illicit gold buying—and that means…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →