Wheelers Give In. Settlement of a Coal Strike
NEWCASTLE,Saturday.— The miners' man agement committee, at a meeting yesterday afternoon, passed a resolution directing the suspension of the Back Creek and Duckenfield…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining & the mines, 1908
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Airly Miners Determined. Free Labourers Get Bad Time. Lithgow
Reports have been circulated that about only half a dozen members of the Airly Miners' Association were on strike—that they were practically loafing on the contributions…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Serious Mining Trouble. Threatened in New Zealand
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday. -- Serious trouble threatens again at the Denniston mines, in connection with the hours of labor under the bank to bank system. The men are threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hundreds Killed the Monongah Mines Explosion Horrors of a Great Disaster
The disaster which has overtaken the (Monongah mines, in West Virginia, is so full of horrors that it must stand pre-eminent in the list of minings catastrophes (writes a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Newcastle Creep. Inspector of Coal Mines' Report. Possibility of Recurrence. the Area Affected
The Inspector of Coal Mines, Mr. A. A. Atkinson, made an inspection on Tuesday of the area affected by the creeps at Newcastle, and the result of his investigations…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Coal Crisis. Several Mines Still Idle. a Complicated Situation. Newcastle, Saturday Night
There is very little change in the coalmining situation. The Maitland miners are paid on an ascertained selling price of 10s per ton, and they want payment on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Coins Unpopular
The monetary stringency in New York has revealed the extraordinary unpopularity of Gold coins with the public. In consequence of the influx of gold, there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Found in Miners' Shaft
As Arthur Deevor, a fossicker, who is camped in the scrub to the east of the new cemetery, in Ballarat North, was passing an abandoned shaft 17ft deep, in Vale Park, he detected an offensive…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners Entombed for 46 Days
Three miners-Bailey, Brown, and Macdonald-who had been entombed in the Alpha shaft of the Girowx mine. Ely. Nevada. since December 4, were rescued on the 18th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Electricity in Mines. the New Regulations
The Minister for Mines yesterday referred to his visit to the Mt. Kombla mine. I wanted to have a look in things, both…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill, Saturday Night
The failure of the negotiations with the Proprietary Company over the concentrates contract is still tending to keep the British and Block 14 mines idle, while…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining and Finance. Answers to Correspondents
MAGNET : I. The Code's Creek Central mode a profit of £S74 for the half-year ending November 30 last. 2. The cause for the rise in Mt. Drysdaies was the rich core from a diamond…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bright District Mines
BRIGHT (Vic.), Saturday.--At the mine the air compressor and rock drilling plant is practically completed, and the company will formally start the now machine on next. Some excitement has been caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Weekly Coal Export
The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during last week amounted to 115,587. tons of coal, of which 57,520 tons were shipped to Commonwealth and New Zealand ports, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Coal Trade
During the past week the coal trade has been very brisk, the total exports considerably exceeding one hundred thousand tons. All the mines, with the exception of half a dozen,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Minmi Collieries Resuming. Wheelers Accept Advice. Newcastle
Acting on the advice given them by the officers of the Colliery employees' Federation the wheelers at Back Creek and Duckenfield mines have agreed to resume work on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Employees' Federation. Mr. Curley's Services
At a meeting of the committee of the Colliery Employees' Federation held on Saturday a letter was received from the proprietors' association intimating that as the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining. Burraga
As a result of the shortage of water at Lithgow, where the Lloyd Copper Company's smelting workshops are situated, it is understood that work at the Burraga mines win have to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Notes
The output of ore from the Hercules mine (Tas.) for the week ended January 18 was 350 tons of sulphides to Zeehan. A fall of 15/ per ton in the price of copper…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Yields
During the week the following yields were reported:- DREDGING RETURNS. Gladstone Tin Development (Tas.), 12cwt tin oxide…
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