Picking Up Fortunes. Fabulous Finds in Diamond Mine
There is scarcely a page of the history of the diamond industry that is not full of romance, as strange as any you will find in books of fiction…
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Hill End Mining Lithgow
Reports from Hill End indicate that mining operations are still very brisk. The Hawkins Hill Deep Levels mine is crushing two shifts, and will clean up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Duty on Explosives. Miners Ask for Exemption. Melbourne
A deputation introduced by Mr. Watkins, M.P., and consisting of Messrs. Baddeley and Willis, representing the coalminers, waited upon the Minister for Trade and Customs with…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Barrier Miners. Question of Hours. Vital National Importance. Conference Unsuccessful
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The conference with a view to settling the Barrier mines dispute has for the present proved abortive, but it is still possible that an agreement may be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →For the Prince Nugget of Gold Waiting Young
A public meeting of Grenfell citizens considered a proposal to form a syndicate to purchase the nugget of gold recently picked up on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Coal Field Discovery in Ireland LONDON, April 24
A report from Belfast states that an immense deposit of bituminous coal has been discovered near Lough Neagh, on the south-west border of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Smash. Engine Buried in Coal Heap. Dungog
A train smash occurred at Dungog to-day. When the Taree-Sydney mail, which arrived here at midday, was a few hundred yards from the station, the engine left the rails where…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Broken Hill Strike. Work on Small Mines. a Stormy Meeting. the Settlement Proposals
BROKEN HILL, Saturday.--The A.M.A. meeting to-day considered the question of work on the small mines out beyond the line of the lode in the Broken Hill district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold From England Big Increase to U.S.A. VANCOUVER, April 24
It is reported from Washington that the gold imports from England jumped to £7,600,000 during the first 10 days in April, while for the first three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mt. Monger Goldfield
A visit to Mount Monger showed there is little now to report about the mines there. Except for some costeening on one or two leases, and a few feet of crosscutting at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →King Island Mine
MELBOURNE, Monday.--The staff at the King Island scheelite mine has been reduced to one shift, due, it is said, to the company's arrangement with the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Notes
The B.H. Proprietary Co., Ltd., reports that for the four weeks ended March 31 no productive work was carried on at Broken Hill owing to the strike, but baling of water was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price of Gold
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday.--The High Commissioner for New Zealand in London has advised the Secretary of the Treasury that the price of gold on April 1 was £5 4s 9d per ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners and the Arbitration Court
"Boodler" writes from Yerraniderle to show the difficulty metalliferous miners in the district have experienced in having their case dealt with by the Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal for Melbourne Supplies Improving Melbourne
Coal is now coming forward more freely, and 100,000 tons have been discharged in Melbourne from the steamers of one line since the engineers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Gold. Wellington (N.z.)
Information has been received by the Secretary to the Troasury from the High Commissioner that the official price of gold on April 1 was £5/4/9 an ounce…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Handling of Coal. Position at Melbourne. State Treasurer Emphatic
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Giving evidence before the Federal Select Committee on sea carriage on Saturday, Admiral Clarkson strongly advocated the installation of mechanical…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Mines. Reduction of Working Hours. Increased Rates of Pay. Offer of Employers
MELBOURNE. Monday.--Mr. C. J. Emery, president of the Broken Hill Managers' Association, stated to-day that difficulty appeared to be experienced by sections of the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. West Australian Fields. Hampton and Mt. Monger. Development Work
WESTONIA, Monday.--Two snails on the [?] property are to be deepened to 100 feet, when cross- rutting for the lode at that depth will be commened. In the event of the lode being met with at that depth,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal-miners' Wages. Queenslanders Want Increase
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--In the Arbitration Court to-day, before Mr. Justice M'Cawley and Mr. Justice MacNaughton, the Colliery Employees' Union applied for a new award…
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