Bushfire Wrecks Mine Shaft 400 Now Idle At Old Bull[?]
BULLI, Monday. -- Bushfire damage to Old Bulli ventilation shaft has thrown the line Idle with 400 workers. Timbers from the burning poppet head…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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Storm Damage £200,000. Kalgoorlie Floods. Many Mines Idle. Kalgoorlie
After almost continuous rain since Wednesday, the eastern goldfields had better weather to-day. Extensive storm damage estimated at-least at £200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stevedores Did Wharfies Work Put Coal Into “Dalfram” Wollongong, Jan. 13
The foremen stevedores who assisted to put coal into the “Dalfram” definitely did work usually done by members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, the Port Kembla wharfies declare…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Lost" Clothes Left at Home. Alleged Reason for Coal Strike. LITHGOW
The Commonwealth Colliery at Lidsdale was idle to-day, because, according to one version, an employee complained that the clothing he had taken to the mine was missing. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Six-hour Claim Is Valid Miners’ Case Boss’s Men Squirm Under Orr’s Examination!
The mincowners continue to put their leading lights in the witness box in an attempt to show that the six-hour day would spell ruin and bankruptcy. But the mineworkers are showing increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steady Tone for Investments Slight Advances by Bonds Barriers Ease But Gold Shares Firmer
A steady tone prevailed in the investment market on 'Change to-day. Bonds were in demand and mostly registered slight gains…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Challenge Horses' Speed Royal Prince Shines at Half-mile Gold Rod Shows Dash Over Three Furlongs Bristol and Silenus
Royal Prince and Gold Rod, prominent Challenge Stakes candidates, were the smartest sprinters this morning at Randwick, where the going on the A grass track was holding after the over-night rain…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Soap From Coal
Coal is one of the dirtiest commodities known, but in Germany they are making fat from the oil extracted from it, and from this oil a soap is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australian Gold Price
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended January 13, is at the rate of approximately£8/9/8½…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mining Notes
BARRYTOWN GOLD DREDGING. DRE[?]G. [?] of January Hours. [?] [?] COCK'S ELDORADO GOLD.—[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners Walk Out: Others Retaliate
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--A complaint by miners and wheelers regarding the distribution of skips caused a stoppage, yesterday, at Aberdare Central colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal-mining Inquiry "Industry Is Due For Overhaul" Judge Talks of Preference to Some Workers
THE whole coal mining industry is due for an overhaul from the industrial point of view, Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman said in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Panned Out Well Andrew's Gold Pan
At last the Warwick Farm trainer, Herb. Andrews, has won a race with Gold Pan. It was not out of his turn as time and again…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock -- From Bullock Drays To Coal Town
LESS than 30 years ago Cessnock was an obscure village. It drowsed along in an environment undisturbed by the throbbing life of the industrial world without its gates…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mines Commission Danger of Foul Air Lithgow
"THE ventilation at the State Mine is the worst I have ever experienced," Mr. W. H. Delaney told the Commission into the health and safety of coal mine workers at Lithgow to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining of Oil Shale. Lithgow
Shale is being taken out of M.P.1 Tunnel at Glen Davis by National Oil Pty., Ltd., which is receiving Federal and State Government backing for the development of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Family "Digs for Gold." Melted Jewellery in Well
After the bushfires at Annangrove. Mr. C. Birch and his family, whose home was destroyed, "dug for gold" in a well. When their house was threatened. jewellery…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Judge in Mine Official's Story of Escape. "Section Fell In."
Mr. W. Orr, general secretary of the Miners' Federation, told Judge Drake-Brockman in the Arbitration Court yesterday that shortly after his…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Holding Up County Coal New Ship Here in March
Coal mining unions are determined to prevent accumulation of coal stocks, the general manager of the County Council (Mr. The Dominion Monarch, new Shaw, Savill luxury liner for the Australian-New Zealand run, 27,155 tons gross, will be the largest ship in the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Board to Review Coal Mine Dispute
A board of reference to review a dispute between the Enginedrivers' Association and Abermain Collieries, was appointed by Judge Drake…
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