Horrible Mining Fatality
A horrible fatality occurred at the Ivanhoe Mines, Kalgoorlie. Charles Hass and a mate, George Holmes, were working on a rise between the…
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Mining & the mines, 1906
24 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
Shocking Mining Fatality
A shocking mining disaster occurred in the Vale of Coolgardie mine, Bonnie Vale, on Tuesday, and resulted in the death of three miners, members of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Priest's Gold Watch
Sarah Hughes (34), a married woman, appeared before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., at the Water Police Court on Thursday morning to answer a charge of stealing a gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Royal Commission. Further Report—coal Contracts
His Excellency Sir Harry H. Rawson made available on Tuesday the report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into certain matters connected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scotch Miners Entombed
An in-rush of water on Saturday entombed five minors at Clackmannan (Scotland). A party of resource, working from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Strike Anticipated
The anthracite and bituminous coal companies is the United States are storing immense stocks in preparation for the anticipated strike…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Barbarous Coal Fires. How to Banish Fogs
The "Daily Mail" writes that the Duke off Fire was unable to take the chair, and Sir Oliver Lodge was too indisposed to deliver his address on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Accident
A sensational mining accident happened at Bendigo on Thursday. Fred. Young, shift boss, and Char. Beavin, a miner, went down the New Chum Consolidated to see how much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine That Never Was. "Band of the Baker" Swindlers
On 26th December, the Paris correspondent of the "London Express" wrote:—Another exploit of the "Band of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Goldfields in the Fifties
Our old friend, the Rev. Fred Bevan, B.A., of Albury, and formerly of Begs and Cooma, has been giving the readers of the Begs "Standard"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The French Colliery Disaster
A miner named Berton has been rescued alive from the Courrieres collieries, wherein he was entombed on March 10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French mining Horror. Story of the Last Man Rescued
The Courrieres miner who was rescued alive from the mine, in which he had been entombed since March 10, is named Berton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Scramble. a Mushroom City
From New York on 11th January the correspondent of the London "Express" wrote:— A phenomenal rush to the mining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold From a Mud Lake. the Man on the Spot
Some comic letters, written on the banks of a lake of mud in the Republic of Colombia, South America, by the managing director of a treasure-seeking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor in Gold Mines. Australian Prospector's Story
On 21st March the London "Daily Telegraph" wrote:— If you keep on asserting an error often enough and strongly enough it stands a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elysium Gold Mines (Limited). Chapter I.
Will Guthrie sat at his breakfast table in his ding lodging gazing thoughtfully at a letter which the postman had just delivered. A somewhat bitter smile…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Mining Fatality
A terrible fatality occurred at Broke Hill on Block 14 mine on Monday morning, when Harry sutton aged 30, married, which one child, was blown to pieces, and William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Gold Robbery
A sensational robbery of amalgam from the battery house of the Golden Ridge mine, Boorora, took place shortly after 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Trouble
The 34 miners who were working at the No. 2 tunnel of the A. A. Company's colliery were looked out on Wednesday, and the collieries at South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flooded Colliery. Entombed Miners Graphic Story Op Escape
All hope for the recovery of the six miners entombed in the flooded colliery of Cardoc Vale, Hendreforgan, is now, reports the "Daily News" of 28th June,…
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