Western Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Vote £100 to Newnes Lodge
Evening News · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 6
LITHGOW. Tuesday.—At an aggregate meeting of the Western Miners' Association to deal with a recommendation of the delegate board, it was decided to grant £100 from the funds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increased Wages. Coal Carters' Appeal Industrial Board's Award
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 8
The Trolly and Draymen (Coal Carters') Industrial Board met yesterday, Mr. T. E. Spencer presiding, and delivered its award in the matter of the dispute in the coal-carting industry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain's Coal Output. Decrease of Tonnage for 1908
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 5
LONDON, Monday.--The output of coal of the United Kingdom for 1908 totalled 261,506,379 tons--a decrease of 6,306,473 tons on the figures for the previous year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Territory Mining. Port Darwin
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 10
Chief Warden Playford is favourably impressed with Davis's new alluvial tin discovery, 12 miles south-cast of Pine Creek, but is unable to express any decided opinion, owing…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining in the State. Cobar
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 10
Before the Warden to-day, the Shuttleton Copper Company was granted a three months' suspension of the labour covenants. Mr. Kendall, of the Great Cobar, Limited, gave…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal-lumpers' Union. Continuation of the Broken Hill Levy
The Star · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 6
The only business of importance transacted at the meeting of the Coal Lumpers' Union this morning was connected with the Broken Hill lockout levy. It was decided, after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Cobar Copper Mine. Two Furnaces in Full Swing. Cobar
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 10
Two furnaces are now in full swing at the Great Cobar copper mine, and it is believed the improvements made to the smelter will prove effective. The mining prospects are now…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal at Kurri Kurri. Successful Boring Operations. Kurri Kurri
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 8
Woodhouse and Sons, who have been boring at Heddon-Greta for some time, reported last week the discovery of a second seam of coal on the Heddon-Greta Company's estate, about…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News From the East. Hongkong Plague Season. Tracing an Absconder. Mining in the Philippines. Port Darwin
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1909 · page 6
The steamer Aldenham arrived from Hongkong on Sunday morning, bringing Hongkong files to March 2. It appears that the Hongkong plague…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Southern Coal Trade
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 10
CLIFTON, Tuesday.--The coal and coke trade at this centre of the district is very brisk, aud full lime has been worked by the majority of the collieries, and good prospects for a busy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Colliery Troubles. the South Greta Dispute
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 10
WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday .--The trouble at the South Greta colliery was further discussed at a well-attended meeting of men to-day, when the delegates appointed to visit the South…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining Notes
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 19
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald
Dredging Returns.—Araluen Valley, 40oz for the week; Associated No. 1, 48oz for 128 hours; Associated No. 2, 46oz for 138 hours; Turon River No. 2, 30oz for 136 hours;…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Central Mine. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 11
At the Central mine both crosscuts have entered mullock at 1100ft off the blind shaft, showing the ore body at this point to be 26ft wide. It is still doubtful, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In and About the Mines
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 14
On March 9 the manager of the Tingha Consolidated wrote:--"Expect to complete compounding engines at dredge No. 2 to-morrow evening; will then resume sluicing with this…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coal Trade Depression. Maitland
The Star · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 3
The boom in land and business which was associated with the development of the large collieries on the Maitland coalfield has been temporarily arrested by the depression in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Boulder Proprietary Mine. Kalgoorlie
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 11
The management of the Great Boulder cabled to London on Saturday as follows:—"Main shaft, at the end of 235ft level going south and north, in country; branch level, 64ft to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining. the Share Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 11
According to a cable published in the "Herald" on Monday, the spot price for copper was £55/17/6, and private cables received yesterday morning stated that the "middle"…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tin-mining. Tingha
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 11
The Melbourne Cope's Creek Tin-dredging Company's No. 1 barge cleaned up with a return of 21½ tons for last month, and the prospects ahead look very promising…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →B.H. South Mine. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 11
The B.H. South mine last week sent away 977 tons of concentrates. The 725ft west crosscut was taken to 85½ft in low-grade ore. Stoping was then started. The bottom of F1…
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