Coal Tests on the Railways. Melbourne
In view of the successful test recently made on the railways of a mixture of brown coal and Newcastle coal, the representatives of the Great Morwell and the Yarragong Coal Companies…
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In view of the successful test recently made on the railways of a mixture of brown coal and Newcastle coal, the representatives of the Great Morwell and the Yarragong Coal Companies…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A largely attended public meeting was held here last night, in response to an advertisement from the Progress, Committee, to discuss the action of the Legislative Council in throwing out the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The mine manager reports for week ending April 8: -- "No. of yards sluiced, about 4500. Race and flumes in fair state of repair. Distance pipe lines extended,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, April 11.—A delegate meeting of the Transit Trades Federation has passed a resolution recommending the Federation of Labor Unions to direct a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In reply to a question in the House last night Mr. Copeland said: The cross area of the Urana goldfield reserve was 22,000 acres, of which 8800 acres have already been alienated, leaving a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible mining accident has taken place in the workings of the Great Western Colliery, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales. An explosion of fire-damp caused…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We are informed that an extraordinary general meeting of the above company was held on Tuesday, 11th inst., at Mercantile chambers, and that it was decided not to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A wash up of 9¼ "paddocks" at the Tumbarumba Flat Sluicing Company's claim, on Saturday, yielded nearly 24oz. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday. -- At the South mine, for the week, 99ft. of prospecting in the shape of drives and crosscuts has been done, but nothing has been revealed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday Night. -- A terrible mining accident occurred to-day in a colliery at Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHARTERS TOWERS,—Wednesday.—A good gold-bearing leader has been cut in the Brilliant Extended. The 1540ft deep shaft is now in the formation. This is the deepest gold-bearing stone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Mining market yesterday business was quiet, and sales were effected at weaker prices. Proprietary shares sold at 66s 6d, and Tens at 32s…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- Owing to the manager of the Burwood colliery declining to allow No. 3 pit to be worked on tonnage rates, as at the other mines, a strike has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special meeting of the delegates from the various lodges in the Miners' Association was held in the Rouse Assembly Rooms on Tuesday, for the purpose of further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The disastrous fire which has occurred in a colliery at Pontypridd, Glamorganshire Wales, was caused by sparks from the pit engine, which ignited the gas that had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, April 11.—A terrible explosion occurred at the Great Western Colliory, near Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, South. Wales, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Some very nice exhibits of the results of gold prospecting at Murchison, West Australia, were to-day shown to the officers of the Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The dispute at Burwood Colliery has reached an acute stage. On Wednesday the scrutineers appointed by the miners' lodge proceeded to the pit to draw the cavils in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--The quarterly meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board was held yesterday. Mr. Adam Cook presided, and the whole of the lodges were represented,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-The Stockton Coal Company is to be again prosecuted for allowing the colliery to work before the Government officials have pronounced it to be in a safe…
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