Miners Take Up Wheeling
The wheelers at the Wallsend colliery refused to work on Monday because a demand made by them for a full day instead of three-quarter times as is usual after the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mining & the mines, 1908
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Terrible Colliery Explosion. Appalling Loss of Life. London
An explosion attended with frightful loss of life has occurred in the shaft of the Cathlen Coal Mine, at Jasovka, Russia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fearful Mine Disaster 200 Lives Lost. London. July 3
An explosion in the shaft of the Cathlin Mine at Jusova, Russia, killed 200 men. Of 73 rescued, ten succumbed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Colliery Explosion. Over Two Hundred Bodies Recovered. London
Up to the present 228 bodies have been recovered from the Kathlen colliery, Jusovka, Russia, in which a terrible explosion occurred last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Mine Explosion
By an explosion in a hathlin mine, in Jusooka, Russia, many miners were imprisoned. Seventy of them were rescued, and the bodies of 228 others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
A Tasmanian tin-mining comparer is getting excellent results operating in the Straits of Malacca, and raise as much as a ton and a half of tin a day. At present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike at Bulli Colliery
Some 700 men at the South Bulli colliery have been laid idle by the refusal of the management to re-instate one of the clippers who had the misfortune to be unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →General Telegrams. Gold Yield. Sydney
The gold yield of New South Wales for the past six months shows a decrease of 26.426 ounces. Valued at £112.248…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victoria. Extravagant Mining Management. Exposures by Labor-member McGRATH
The public of Victoria were aroused recently by the grave allegation of misdeeds on the part of certain gentlemen connected with the mining industry, who, in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wade's Act Flouted. Sydney Labor Council Stands Firm. Balmain Miners to Be Assisted. What Will Mr. Wade Do Now?
A meeting of far-reaching importance to the cause of Trade Unionism, and carrying with it great issues, was held by the Sydney Labor Church last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining in Shallow Ground. Large Areas Shut Up. Demand That They Shall Be Opened
Throughout the Victorian goldfields there is an immense area of ground that could be worked for quartz down to about 150 feet from the surface. Generally the main…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woodcutters Strike. Serious Consequences. Kalgoorlie Mines Shut Down Sydney
A private telegram received in Sydney this afternoon from Kalgoorlie is to the effect that every mine is shut down owing to the wood-cutters'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kalgoorlie Mines. a Grave Situation. Wood Cutters on Strike. Sydney
A private telegram received in Sydney this afternoon from Kalgoorlie, indicates a grave position of affairs in Western Australia. Every mine, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining
Tilden's Burrowa syndicate, working mines at Cullinga, beside the extension of the Christmas Gift lode, are putting through 60 tons of stone at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines and Miners
A rough clean up at the Ballarat and Castlemaine dredge, Ballarat, realised 50oz. 14dwt. A final at New Chum Gully returned 54oz. 12dwt., making 105oz. from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian State Coal Mine. Discoveries on Crown Lands. Leases Not to Be Given to Speculators
There seems reasonable hope that it will not be a long time before the Victorian Government works a coal mine of its own. The Premier (Sir Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mt. Magnet Miners' Strike. an Abortive Conference
Efforts by the executive of the Amalgamated Minors' Association to bring about an amicable settlement of the Mt. Magnet, Tas., strike have failed. The president…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kalgoorlie Wood-cutters' Strike. All the Mines Close Down
Early last week trouble arose between the wood-cutters and carters in Kalgoorlie and the firewood companies owing to the latter's attempt to force upon the men a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →More Gold in Victoria
A. rich quartz reef has been discovered on Crown land near Avoca (Victoria) The country in being pegged out in all directions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Mortality. Natives in Mines. London, July 10
The mortality among the Nyassaland natives in the Rhodesian mines exceeded 500 per 1000 per annum…
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