In and About the Mines
Gold-dredging yields: Araluen Redbank, 31oz. 18dwt. for 125 hours' work; Araluen Central, 9oz. for 96 hours. The directors of the Great Britain Sluicing…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining & the mines, 1913
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Western Australian Mines. Kalgoorlie
The Associated Northern Company has cabled to London:—"Victorious Leases, No. 4 level, east drive, extended from 115 to 140 feet, values 236s per ton. over a width of 5 feet."…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Broken Hill Mines. Broken Hill
Mr. H. A. Green, who has been in chare of the Murex experimental plant at the Debavay works for the past 12 months, left for England last night, having completed the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →A Fall of 50 Feet. Down a Colliery Shaft
Trank King, 35, a carpenter, residing in Moore-street, Balmain, had a remarkable escape from death yesterday morning, when he fell down the shaft at the Sydney Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Mining. Silver and Copper Lower
In consequence of further weakness on the other markets rates for copper and Broken-hill shares were lower on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Two Pits Idle. Mining Disputes. Newcastle
Burwood pit has been idle all this week. Lambton B. pit was thrown idle this morning. At a late hour this afternoon the men bad expressed no intention of returning to…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Scarcity of Water. Mines Closing Down. Two Hundred Cobar Men Off
The conditions at Cobar, by the long-con tinued spell of dry weather, have become so acuto that one large mine has had to close down, while others are threatened with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Russell's Fate. Miners' Mass Meeting. Attended by Cabinet Cabinet Minister. Wollongong
Mr. Carmichael, the Minister for Labor and Industry, was present at an aggregate meeting of miners, which was held this afternoon. The subject of the meeting was the refusal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World’s Progress Hunting for Gold with Wireless Waves
Wireless telegraphy for locating precious ores now being carefully tested out by German scientists, with enough success to give hope of eventual practicability. The use of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Trade. Large Increase Last Year. Losing Eastern Markets. Newcastle
The quantity of coal exported from Newcastle last year exceeded 5,000,000 tons, and was valued at £2,617,694. The increase on the coal exports of 1911 is…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Beggar's Fortune of 680,0000. Strong Box Full of Notes and Gold
An old man known as "Father Daniel," but whose real name was Jean Baptiste R[?]t[?]n, died suddenly last mouth to a gi[?]y [?]van in which he lived at Cour[?]le, just…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. Price of Copper Improves. London Weak in Barriers. Local Market Follows This Lead
The sudden change for the better on Thursday afternoon, especially in the case of silver stocks, proved evanescent, for the market opened yesterday morning with share values…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mining Trouble in the North Outlook More Hopeful. Stoppage Not Wanted by Either Side. Newcastle
The mining situation in Newcastle is decidedly better to-day than it was a week ago. One of the main reasons for this is that the colliery proprietors do not want a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining' Unrest. Men Waiting Patiently for the Action of the Proprietors. Colliery Troubles. Newcastle, Saturday Night
The mining crisis position may be said to be now at a standstill pending the action or the proprietors, who next week are to meet to consider the request of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Accidental Find of Coal
After the pit had been, closed for six years, a fine seam of coal has been accidentally discovered at the Hartington Colliery (Derbyshire) of the Staveley Company. The seam, four feet…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Uncle. Maiden and Ring
Miss L. Smith writes to say that she pawned a ring with a city pawnbroker for a few shillings, and was so unwise as to leave the ticket for the ring in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vastness of American Coal Measures
The known coal fields of the United States embrace a total area of 310,296 square miles, to which may be added something over 106,000 square miles of which little is known,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The King's Weight in Gold
If the King of England, when he went to Calcutta, had not set his face against the proposition, he would have been weighed in gold, and the amount required to make him tip the scales…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Trouble Over Hours. a Greta Colliery Hung Up. NEWCASTLE
The Broxburn Colliery at Greta, has been idle the best part of this week owing to trouble over the hours of starting and ceasing work. To-night the miners' officers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Coal Bunker. Newcastle, Saturday Night
A fire occurred in the coal in the starboard bunker of the Adelaide S.S. Co.'s steamer Yankolilla while lying in the basin in the harbor this morning…
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