Mine Disaster. 89 Men Entombed by Explosion. New York, Jan. 11. (A.A.P.)
Trapped by an explosion in a coalmine 620 feet underground, 89 miners at Bartley, West Virginia, are believed to be doomed…
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U.S. Mines for Britain. North Sea Barrage. Priority of Supply. New York, Jan. 11. (A.A.P.)
The British Government is discussing the purchase from the United States of mines for the projected North Sea barrage, according to the Washington…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Idle Collieries
CESSNOCK, Friday.--All the 18 collieries on the South Maitland coalfields will be idle on Monday. Members of the Federated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Reports Consolidated Gold Areas
The directors of Consolidated Gold Areas. N.L., have made arrangements against the security of the White Hope property to raise funds to finance necessary expenditure…
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NEW OCCIDENTAL GOLD.—New Cobar mine (week ended December 23): No. 6 level bell hole floor; two weeks ended January 6, north unlegging, 139 tons, assays 9.01 dwt gold, 1.35 per cent…
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SOVEREIGNS: £2/8/11, unchanged (Commonwealth Bank). GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/12/9, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/0¼, unch…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hopes Fade for Trapped Miners
NEW YORK, Friday.--Hope of finding - alive the coalminers trapped in Pond Creek mine, Pocahontas, West Virginia, is fading…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Confer at Newcastle Newcastle
More than 200 men attended a conference to-day at the Newcastle Trades Hall on the coal position. The conference is one of a series on each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Silk Stockings Out of a Mine
Stockings, made from a coal product, will soon be marketed in Australia. The first samples of the stockings have just arrived in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Easier Trend. Gold and Tin Scrip
Trading was on fairly active lines in the mining share market yesterday. Irregularity was shown by Barriers, while a number of gold and tin shares…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →News of the Mines Mataki Junction Dredge Sinks
Mataki Junction Gold Dredging, N.L., reports that the dredge sank at midnight on Thursday. A large leak suddenly developed on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northern Miners' Policy. Key Meeting To-day. Important Decision. NEWCASTLE
The future policy of northern mine workers in the long struggle for a 40-hour week throughout the industry will be thrashed out by the men's…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Money Talks Smiths Financial Review High Yields From Gold Shares Many Good Investments Available
WHLE shares in other metal producing companies experienced boom-time conditions during the closing months of 1939, gold shares, for some unknown reason, have been virtually ignored…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Japanese Chemist Produces Gold in Colloid Form Problem of the Centuries is Overcome by Scientist
One of the most Important scientific discoveries of all time has been the work of Rei Sato, a Japanese chemist. Who ever heard of making gold into jelly? Fantastic as it may sound, that was the task that this chemist set himself…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Expedition
FINANCIAL MEMBERS. £150 each, to Joint Expedition Into unexplored central Australia by truck and camel team. Under capable leader, with definite information and maps…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Colliery Blaze at Maitland West Maitland
Members of the West Maitland fire brigade fought a blaze in the old Bloomfield colliery, six miles from, here, for five hours to-day before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Disaster New York
Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 25 of the 91 mine workers who were entombed at Pocahontas, West Virginia, yesterday. Hope has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →92 Killed in Mine Blast
NEW YORK, Saturday.--Ninety-two men were killed in Wednesday's explosion at Pond Creek coalmine at Pocahontas (West Virginia)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Favor Irritation Newcastle
After seven hours the meeting of northern miners' lodge delegates and representatives of other unions in the industry this afternoon endorsed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Where your cup of cocoa comes from Gold Coast grows most
COCOA, brown, typically-British drink, still a great favorite in the…
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