Mines in the Skager Rack
It is a mistake to suppose that there are two ways by which the German Fleet can gain access to the North Sea-by the Kiel Canal or the Skager Rack. The only passage for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining & the mines, 1915
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New Coal Plant. Wollongong
The new coal-loading plant at Port Kembla Jetty was given a trial run. About 300 tons of coal were put through the loading plant on the now low-level jetty…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Mine-laying Sub-marines. Enemy's Strength
LONDON, Friday.--The latest announcement from Berlin is that the Germans have built 120 big mine-laying submarines during the last six months…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mine Fields. a Dangerous Voyage. Fremantle
Captain Prip, master of the Danish steamer Indien, which arrived from Copenhagen to-day, said that when the Indien left the Danish port thosE on board fully realised the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mining. Prices Current on 'Change
Operators stood right off the mining market on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Only two sales were recorded up to the luncheon interval, and neither was of more than…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Abermain Mine. Single Shift on Monday. Kurri Kurri
Abermain No. 2 colliery inaugurates the single-shift system on Monday. One hundred end fifty hands are temporarily displaced…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mining in the State. Lockhart
Mining matters at Mangoplah may be said to be interesting. A battery for the No. 1 gold mine is half completed. Messrs. Priest and party have opened a good show, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining. As Inactive Market. Values Mostly Unaltered
A disinclination towards speculation was shown by the fact that yesterday morning only two transactions were booked, whilst the general tone of the quotations indicated very…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Broken Hill South Mine. Half-year's Operations. Hampered by the War
The war and its effect in hampering the operations of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company looms large in the report of the directors to be presented at the annual ordinary general meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Late War News. Mine Sweeping. Wonderful Record of Pluck London, Feb. l9
The British Admiralty, in a memorandum on the mine-sweeping operations to the end of December, shows a wonderful record o[?] pluck…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Fishing for Mines. Wonderful Record of Pluck an Admiralty Memorandum. London, Friday Evening
Though work of the crows of the trawlers engaged in sweeping for mines in the North Sea and the Channel is little heard of by the public, a memorandum just issued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold from Silver. "By No Means Impossible." Sir William Ramsay's Experiments
Sir William Ramsay, the celebrated savant, has given to a correspondent of the "Matin" an interesting account of the experiments he is now engaged on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Big German Mining Concern in Australia. To the Editor of the NEWSLETTER Castlereagh-street. Sydney. Dear Sir
Reference to an arti[?]e appearing in your paper within the last two weeks and a copy of which was printed in the Illawarra "Mercury" on the 29th ult…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germans Short of Food Women Riot Over Potatoes Perils of Mine=sweepers Germany's Food. Daily Becoming Scarcer. Women Riot for Potatoes. Thrash the Officials. Amsterdam, Friday Aft[?]
Telegrams received from Berlin indicate that the food problem is becoming more serious every day. There has been rioting in the town of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Goldfields. Departmental Inquiry
The Premier's attention was recently directed to a suggestion that the Government should encourage dredging parties to wor[?] certain rich old goldfields. A commencement…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Colliery Closes
Over 200 miners and other employees were just "off' at South Bulli Colliery yesterday owing to slackness of trade. This colliery's trade was principally with Germany, and the daily output…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dearer Coal. London, Saturday Morning
The retail price of coal in London has advanced 2s a ton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Coast Mines. Industrial Troubles. Wollongong
The wages board dealing with surface hands and other employees of South Coast mines commenced its sittings at the local courthouse yesterday. The dirt question at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Finance—Mining—Produce Markets Investments Unchanged Business Good
Business in investment stocks on the Sydney, Stock Exchange during the past week continued good, has except in isolated instances, prices have not changed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Submarine Capable of Laying Mines & Blowing Up Blockaded Fleets the Submarine Automobile the Dawn of a New Type of Submersibile Can Pass Through Mines and Attack a Fleet
The time is near when the absolutely invisible submarine will become'a reality is the opinion of Simon Lake, the inventor of the even-keel submergence submarine torpedo-boat,…
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