Mining
A cablegram received by the Queensland Government from the Agency-General quotes wolfram at 29 per unit for 70 per cent. ore. This is an advance of 2 per unit on the previous quotations, and is equal to £10110…
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West Australian Mines
KALGOORLIE, Monday.--The diamond drill is now in use at the 1000ft. level of the Great Bowlder's Hamilton shaft, and development in this locality may be expected at any time…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Dredging
The Ovens Valley Gold Dredging Company, Victoria, recovered 64½oz of retorted gold for a three weeks' run of 340 hours. The rah last week was a short one, owing to the holidays…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Intelligence
The Sulphide Corporation report for the week ending December 24:—Central mine, Broken Hill; 4011 tons; concentrates produced, 736 tons; average assay concentrates produced,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Colliery Trouble. More Men Go Out
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday Afternoon.—The strike has extended to Pelaw Main Colliery, South Maitland district. About six hundred men have been affected. The colliery has been thrown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Country. Southern Coal Trade
WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--The coal trade of the district has been brisk since the holidays, most of the collieries having worked well. Shipments from this port were:--Malachite 680…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Russians Seeking Coal Agents at Work at Bombay
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Russian agents are endeavoring to purchase 100,000 tons of coal at Bombay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining in New South Wales. Deepwater
Rapid progross has been made at the Wentworth Wolfram Proprietary mine at Cow Flat, the stone-breaker, rolls, and Whilfley tables being now in position. A quantity of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Transvaal Mining Dividends. Amount Disbursed During 1904
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--During 1904 the gold-mining companies of the Transvaal distributed the sum of £3,908,670 in dividends to the shareholders…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three More Forts Captured. Desperate But Unavailing Defence. Frightful Mine Explosions. Ghastly Scenes of Carnage
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The fort of Snng-shu-shan, to the east of the railway and close to Ehr-lung-shan, was stormed and captured by the Japanese at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Reductions. Probable Trouble with the Wheelers. the Pelaw-main Case. Newcastle
The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation has had under consideration the situation at Pelaw-Main colllery where the notice of general reductions has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A West Australian Visitor. Prospects of the Goldfields
Mr. E. Graham Price, a member of a well-known firm of mining engineers at Kalgoorlie and Perth, is at present spending a few days in Sydney prior to returning to the goldfields of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Balmain Coal Mine
Although no coal has yet been worked at the Sydney Harbour Collieries Mine, a 3 feet seam was struck in the Birthday shaft, at 2880 feet. It did not prove to be as thick as…
Continued on Trove, page 60 →Helensburgh. The Town and Its Coal Mine
On the northern border of tho Illawarra district there is a little town that is more noted amongst people who have travelled on the South Coast coast line for the position of its…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Bendigo Mines
The record of tho mines of Bendigo, Victoria, for the year just closed easily tops that for the previous year, and is accordingly the best since 1876, which was the closing year of…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Newcastle Mining Trouble. General Strike of Wheelers. Nine Collieries Idel. Strikers to Meet To-day
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- All but four collieries of those that work bore-hole seams have been kept idle to-day, principally as the result of a strike of wheelers throughout the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meeting of Associated Colliery Proprietors
Yesterday a meeting of the Associated Colliery Proprietors was held at the office of the secretary in Sydney to consider the position. There was a large and representative…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Coal Trade the Mining Reductions. Opposition of the Wheelers. Several Mines Stuck Up. Scandalous Strike at Pelaw-main. Newcastle
The general reduction in the rates of wages paid to the hands employed at the collieries on the Borehole seam, notified last month to come into operation from the beginning of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Pelaw Main Colliery
WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday. -- A deputation representing the employees of the Pelaw Main Colliery yesterday requested the management to allow them to resume work on the old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Laying Coaldnst in Mines
A paper on an improved apparatus for laying coaldust in coal mines was submitted to a recent general meeting of thu Institute of Mining Engineers, held at Birmingham, by Mr. J…
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