The Loss of Energy in Burning Coal
With the coal consumption of many countries in the last ten years having been more than in the preceding century, it is humiliating and appalling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining & the mines, 1909
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Barrier Trouble. Lively Scenes Enacted. Proprietary Mine Picketed. Officials Not Allowed to Return
The war beeween the unions and the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. has now commenced in earnest. On Saturday the mine was closely picketed, all the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Developments. Railway Line Blown Up. Hooting and Stone Throwing. Mine Entirely Closed Down. Broken Hill, Monday Night
A section of the railway leading from Railway-town to the mines, was blown up during the night, by whom it is not known. The damage is not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Spirit of the Mine
JIM McGRATH, the landlord of "The Lucky Digger" hotel, walked slowly up and down the rapidly rotting boards of his verandah. His eyes wandered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines and Miners
Mining operations throughout Victoria were practically suspended' during Christmas week. Work in the mines generally was resumed on the 4th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Coalminers. Illawarra. the Coal Trade
After the cessation of work caused by the intervention of the Christmas and New Year holidays, the mines of the district are again in full swing, with brightened…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Miner's Complaint Classed As an Accident. Opposition of Mine Owners
The new edition of the New Zealand Workers' Compensation Accidents Act classes pheumoconiosis, or miner's complaint, as an accident, for which affected…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Broken Hill Miners Locked Out Proprietary Company's Illegal Act. Commonwealth Arbitration Court Flouted
Since withdrawing from the miners' committee the Proprietary officials have propounded various schemes for a new working agreement, but, in every instance, the basis…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Barrier Crisis. Isolating the Proprietary Mine. the Railway Line Cut. Monday's Outrage. Men Seriously Injured. Supporting the Unions. Broken Hill
The situation arising out of the dispute between the combined unions and the Proprietary company shows no change. Some excitement prevailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lobb's Hole and Kiandra Mining
C. WORTES and Sous have removed the Kiandra elevator plant on the Jack Isles plat, and will be at work in the course of three weeks. Individual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Romance in Real Life This Foundling's Mother. and the Gold Digger
A young women without money or home abandoned her child on the high road between Scarborough and Whitby in the hope that some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand Miners. a Threatened Strike. Wellington
The Waihi miners in New Zealand have unanimously decided to decline to undergo medical examination and pledged themselves to come out in a body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Killed
An explosion in a mine in Illinois killed 25 miners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Owners Make War
Right in the midst, of the [?]ason of "Peace on earth, goodwill, to men," even while the bells were ringing out their fraternal message, the big mineowners of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines and Miners
A nugget of gold over an ounce in weight is reported to have been found in Forest-street, Bendigo, on the 7th inst. Forest Creek Hydraulic Company…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Cause of Explosions in Coal Mines
The important investigations which Professor William Galloway, the well-known South Wales mining engineer, recently made into the action of coal dust in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Colliery Disaster. Fifty Miners Killed. Hundred Others in Danger. London
All explosion in the Link Branch mine, at Switchback, Virginia. U.S.A., has killed 50 miners. It is feared another 100 are doomed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mine Explosion 50 Men Killed. London, Jan. 13
An explosion in the Link Branch coal mine, Switchback, Virginia (U.S.A.) killed 50 men. It is feared that another 100 are doomed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Before the Court
Before Mr. Barnett, S.M., at the police court this morning, Thomas Payne, aged 27, a trucker, was charged with assaulting Constables Hunter and Withers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining in Victoria. Outlook for the New Year
The following, showing the number of mining companies registered in Victoria from the years 1901 to 1908, has been compiled by Mr. W. Grant Mendell, who for…
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