At Bulli Mines
BULLI, Friday.--The coal trade has commenced the year with a very busy week's work, all the collieries having worked full time, with the exception of the holiday--New Year's Day--…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mining & the mines, 1908
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Electricity in Mines
Mr. Perry, as Minister for Mines, proposes to shortly visit several of the coal mines in the State in which electric plants have been installed. Probably the best equipped gold mine in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weekly Coal Export
The local quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week amounted to 83,678 tons, of which 38,768 tons were shipped for Commonwealth and New Zealand ports, and 44,889…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Colliery Strikes. Demands of Themen
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The shoters and fillers in the Pacific, Rhondda, Northern Extended, and Northumberland collieries, all of which are in the Teralba district, demand, all increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →General Strike Feared. Serious Situation at Newcastle. Six Collieries Idle. Section of the Hands Come Out. Miners Against the Action
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Contrary to general expectation, the advent of the new year has been accompanied by a crop of industrial troubles which it is feared will result in a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners' Accident Fund. Helensburgh
A meeting of the employees of the Metropolitan Colliery was held at the School of Arts last night for the purpose of electing a local committee to conduct the business of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In and About the Mines
The eastern crosscut from the south level of the Columbia Extended has intersected quartz of good quality. The gold-bearing country at this point should be overhead…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Newcastle. Coal Export Trade. Newcastle
The total quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ended to-day amounted to 83,657 tons, compared with 66,359 tons during the preceding week…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Zealand. Coal Exports. Wellington
The coal exports from Westport last year totalled 645,149 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mount Lyell Mine. a Fine Development. Melbourne
At the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company the bore at the 1000ft level has been extended a further 19ft through good ore, which is now continuous for the last 27ft,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →South Clifton Colliery Idle. Boys Strike Again. Increase Promptly Refused. Clifton
Through an unexpected development, the South Clifton colliery this morning was thrown idle. One of the clippers had a grievance, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Northern Labour Troubles Wise Counsels Prevail Colliery Employees Return to Work Newcastle
An aggregate meeting of wheelers, shiftmen, trappers, and other colliery employees, not being members of the Miners' Federation, wan held on Arnott's Paddock today…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mount Bischoff Tin Mine. Rich Tin Ore Disclosed. Launceston
Some rich patches of tin ore were met with during last fortnight, in the brown face on the Mount Bischoff mine. The lode in the winze from No. 6 level west is 5ft wide, and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Floating Mine. Danger to Non-combatants British Proposals Rejected
Probably the most noteworthy achievement of the Hague Conference was a negative one viz., the rejection of Great Britain's proposal to abolish floating mines, on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Goal Trcuble. Teralba Miners Determined. Mass Meeting of Wheelers
NEWCASTLE, Saturday Afternoon.—Officers of the Miners' Federation have succeeded in inducing the Dudley and Burwood wheelers and other daily wage hands, who were on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Southern Coal Trade. Advance in Hewing Rates Sought. Brisk Trade
WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Considerable anxiety evinced by the district officers at the present time owing to several resolutions in reference to a demand for an immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Labour Trouble at Cobar. Great Cobar Copper Mine. Strike of a Shift. Cobar
Serious trouble has occurred at the Great Cobar copper mine, resulting in a strike affecting about 60 men. It appears that three men lost a shift on New Year's Day, and as…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Broken Hill Mines. Number of Men Employed. Effect of the Lead Slump. Broken Hill
The official figures from the mines show that at the end of December there were 8937 men at work, as against 10,030 at the end of September last. Allowing for casuals, etc,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coal Trouble Imminent
Serious developments in connection with the coal—mining trouble at Newcastle took place on Friday. There is a grave probability that all the good…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Elingamite's Gold
Captain M'Kenzie's party, which proceeded in search of the gold lost in the steamer Elingamite, which was wrecked at the Three Kings on November 9, 1902, has recovered a good…
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