Price of Gold
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Min for the week ended January 27 is £8 9s 8[?] an ounce standard, equal to a premium [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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First Coal Strike On Newcastle Field
IT IS NOW nearly 90 years since one of the earliest major triumphs of industrial militancy--the first recorded coal strike on the Newcastle field. The Hunter River Miners' Mutual Protective Association…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Compensation for Miners Paid To 40 p.c. Of Men Engaged
Figures supplied by an official to the Safety. in Mines inquiry to-day showed that about 40 per cent, of the miners employed in three South…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →News and Notes From Mines Papuan Apinaipi To Sink Third Bore At Oiapu
Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co., Ltd., advises that the No. 2 Oiapu bore is down 523ft., and that a further trace of oil was struck at 494ft…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Dust Disease Expert To Appear at Inquiry. Health in Coal Mines
Mr. Justice Davidson announced at yesterday's sitting of the Royal Commission inquiring into health and safety in coalmines, that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mine Closed Over Horse
CESSNOCK, Wednesday.--Aberdare Central Colliery was idle today. At starting time the wheelers complained that a horse was not capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Warning To Mine Lodges
BULLI, Wednesday.--Any mine lodge which urges other lodges to stop work, without the full authority of the district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Age Pensions
The old people of New Zealand can look forward to peace and security in the evening of their life, for their Parliament has just passed the second reading of the…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Mining Notes
ADELONG GOLD ESTATES.—Week ended January 28; Treated 13,000 cubic yards for 49oz smelted gold. Dredging suspended on January 27 owing to a breakdown. New part to be fitted in a few…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Killed by Coal Fall
CESSNOCK, Wed.--John Thomas Shakespeare, an elderly miner, was killed instantly at Neath Colliery to-day when a fall of coal occurred from the rib in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Falling Coal Kills Miner
CESSNOCK, Wednesday.--At Neath colliery today John Thomas Shakespeare, 57, was killed by a fall of coal. About two tons of coal broke away…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Gold Revaluation London
Gold stocks of the Bank of England will shortly be written up by nearly £100,000,000 as a logical sequel to the…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Mining Under a Racecourse
THE Doncaster (Eng.) Town Council has expressed itself agreeable to the Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd. working coal under the racecourse, the course on which the St. Leger is run…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents in Mines Menace Grows, Comments Judge
"IT 18 a, most striking fact that accidents are growing more numerous in coal mines."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Don't Give Gold Pan Away
OFFICER, the good thing of the day, was beaten at Rosebery yesterday. Officer did so well at Randwick on Monday that in yesterday's Encourage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lady Shenton Gold. Ore Supply Running Out
The directors of the Lady Shenton Gold Mines (1934). N.L., have decided to mine all ore at present in sight, and then discontinue milling operations until an adequate supply of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Huge Seams of Coal Locked Inquiry Suggested; Catchment Area
Coal lost because of restrictions in working seams under the water catchment area on the South Coast amounted, on a very conservative…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"Cripes, Mine's Left at the Post" Tom Luckey Reviews 50 Years of Racing Last of the "Straihtbacks' In a Chat with Alec Boyd
EVERYBODY WHO GOES RACING IN AUSTRALIA KNOWS THAT THE CLERK OF THE COURSE IS ATTIRED IN A RED JACKET AND BLACK CAP. NO, NOT EVERYBODY. OTHERWISE A LADY AT…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crown Coal Mines. Government Policy Defined
The State Government has decided to adhere to its policy of refusing applications to mine for Crown coal, the granting of which would mean the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Long-lived Miners. Evidence at Coal Inquiry
Men had worked up to 60 years in the mines, said Mr. George Mason Hindmarsh, assistant colliery superintendent, when giving evidence yesterday…
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