Adelong Splashes Mining
Results of the trial crushing of bulk ore sent to Cockle Creek for treatment from the promising show at Bangadang are to hand, and give the wonderful return of 4ozs…
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Treasure Trove. Boys Find Bag of Gold. Many Claimants
For the first time in thirty years the St. Helens (England) coroner held on inquest to determine whether a bag containing £150 10s in gold, found by two boys in a hole three…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dangerous Work in Collieries Workmen Object. Sydney
Owing to miners objecting to drawing out timber from those parts of the mine, where pillars had been extracted while the pit is working. The West…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yorkshire Miners. Big Amalgamation Scheme, London
Yorkshire miners who struck work are expected to resume on Easter Tuesday, The wages loss will amount to half a milton pounds weekly. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Troubles Sewer Miners Idle. Alleged Short Payments. Afternoon Mining Shift. Question of Abolition. Sydney
About 130 men working on the sewers at Adamason are idle, owing to dissatisfaction respecting the rates of pay. The men state that they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Despairing Miners Find Big Diamonds
Alter working a diamond claim in South Africa with scant success for seven months, reward came to Mr. Bowker by the discovery of a fine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Expect Gold Panic in Three Years
Mr. Moreton Frewen anticipates a [?] panic in England within the next two or three years, because of the great drain of British gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrified Bones in a Mine
Miners at the Usworth Colliery, County Durham, have made a gruesome find. While hewing in the Maudlin seam they broke through into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Birds to Aid Mine Rescue. Show Absence of Oxygen
The enumeration of canary-birds among the necessary implements of the miner might cause surprise, but these pets are life-savers of the first order when their services are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Think What It 15. a Sydney Gold Mine. (To the Editor.)
sir:—just recently there was sold a block of land Fronting Elizabeth Market and Cashereagh streets. the area of which is 2 roods 17 pre…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Africa. Unworked Gold Area. Evidence Before Commission. Johannesburg
Experts have testified before the Dominions Commission that only one-fifth of the known gold-mining area of the Rand is being worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Coal. Orders Taken Away From England. Berlin
The "Vosaische Zeitung states that during the last two months, foreign coal orders amounting to over a million lons, which were formerly placed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yorkshire Miners
The Yorkshire miners have decided to accept the terms of the Conciliation Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Save Coal
The coal bill in winter is a very serious item of household expenditure. There are many patent grates certified to reduced the consumption of coal to a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Man Engine" Used in Cornish Mine
In one of the mines of Cornwall, England, a curious device, known as a "man engine," is in use for conveying the miners to and from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner Killed. by Coal Waggon. Newcastle
John M'Manus, while at work at the M'Miller hoist at Carrington, Newcastle, was run over by a coal waggon, which so seriously injured his left leg…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colorado Coal Strike
President Wilson has appealed to Mr. Rockefeller to bring about a settlement of the Colorado coal strike. Mr. Rockefeller replied that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Disaster. Two Hundred and Fifty Men Entombed New York
A terrifie explosion occurred at the New River Colliery Company's mine to Beckley. West Virginia. Two hundred and fifty men, who were below in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Baths for Coal Miners. SYDNEY
Mr. Cann intends next session to introduce an amendment of the Coal Mines Regulation Act of one clause, which will make it compulsory for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining
Mr. Cotton, who has charge of the O'Dwyer mine at Bangadang, informs us that the mine has been floated [?] Melbourne by Mr. A. E. Langford, for…
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