Mining. Yilgran Goldfield
Reports from Western Australia indicate that more interest is being shown in mining propositions on the Yilgarn field than has been the case for several years. In the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining & the mines, 1924
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When Coal Was Unpopular
There was a time when coal was not welcomed in London, the London "Morning Post" states. "Henry III. granted a charter to the people of Newcastle, empowering them to dig…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Curlewis Colliery Closing Down Threatened
The Curlewis Colliery failed to secure an order for coal from the Railway Commissioners for 1924. This will result in the mine being practically forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Tin Outlook
Commenting on the sharp rise in tin early in November The Statist describes that metal of essentially an Empire commodity, of which the chief buyers are located in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Empire Exchange and the Gold Standard
It is worth while reproducing the resolution of the Committee of the Economic Conference, resolutions which were adopted by the Imperial Economic Conference itself,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Short Story the Mine-worker Who Became a Leader
ONE morning when he was nine years' Ralph's father looked at him across a saucer filled with black coffee, and said, "It's time you was gitten to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fatal Swerve Car Overturns Mine Manager Killed MELBOURNE
Jagoe's corner, about a mile from Bright, was the scene of a fatal motor smash today, the victim being Mr. Bryan Almeida, mine manager, a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal for Fuel on the Murray. Melbourne
The supply of wood fuel is fast diminishing in the Murray Irrigation area, and the Water Commission has decided to use coal at its pumping station at Redcliffs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Visiting Sportsmen Messrs. Ogilvie and Okines (Mines of Hobart
The attendance at Epping last Thursday was above the average, due to some extent to the patronage of country holiday-makers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Coal Barons. Profits Rise by 236 Per Cent
The British miners' claim for a revision of the ratio of profits and wages is strongly supported (says the London "Daily Herald") by remarkable figures…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining Section. M.s., A.w.u., Moonta
That seeing by a resolution the members of the Union are demanded to pay the Labor Daily levy before the 1st of March, 1922, is undemocratic, and should be…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Many Pits Idle Northern Coal Output 'Extending the Holidays' Newcastle
Miners on the northern field were to have resumed work this morning after the Christmas holidays, but the resumption was only partial. Ten pits…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scene of the First Discovery of Payable Gold in Australia
This obelisk. erce[?]ed near the junction of Lewis Ponds and Summerhill creeks, Ophir, was unveiled last week by the New South Wales Minister for Mines to commemorate Edward Hammond Hargraves's discover of payable gold there nearly 72 years ago. The inscriptions on the monument record the fact that Hargraves, from experience gained in California, formed the idea that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Miners. Nine Collieries Idle. After the Holidays. Newcastle
Nine pits on the northern coalf[?] failed to resume Work after the Christmas holidays this morning. The other collierles were only half manned, and it is not anticipated that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lithgow Collieries. Bright Outlook. Lithgow
The Lithgow collieries resumed this morning. Increased employment has been found at all the Associated pits, particularly at Lithgow and Hermitage. At the others more men…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining
Retaliation Junction (in liq.): Distribution of capital, first and final, £ 6/6/6 100 shares; payable on surrender of scrip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining. Future of the Rand
The probable extent of the decline of the gold mining industry in the Witwatersrand during the next 10 years is given by Sir Robert Kotze, the Government mining…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Collar Proud?" Northern Miners Eleven Pits Idle Nine on Strike
Nine northern mines failed to resume work yesterday, after the holidays. owing to strikes. East Greta, Duckenfield No. 3, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Union a Rabble Miners' President Tells Home Truths NEWCASTLE
"Some of you men who call yourselves unionists, if asked to work for two minutes after the knock-off whistle goes, would…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bright Prospects Lithgow Coal Boom Big Railway Order LITHGOW
Increased railway coal orders from Lithgow total 500,000 tons, apart from the commissioners' own colliery's output. This will mean much to the…
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