Coal for Railway Western Supplies
SYDNEY, Friday: Next Monday a start will be made with the loading of 10,000 tons of coal urgently needed by the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
1,185 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 60
Coal Board Plans To Boost Coal Output
The Joint Coal Board has prepared plans to increase N.S.W. coal production by 6,500,000 tons to 18,000,000 tons by 1952, says a metropolitan report. Included in the scheme is a plan for the development and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Salvage Operations Sunken Liner
LONDON, Monday.—First attempts to recover gold worth several million sterling, which has been at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interim Coal Loading for Railway Services
Following a request from the Joint Coal Board, work has commenced on the loading of 11,000 tons of coal stacked at the Ben…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Cut Coal Blamed for Fires Caused by Trains
The train crew of the goods train on the Bogan Gate-Tottenham line had a strenuous time last week. A number of fires started after the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Cuts Likely Coal Stocks Low
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — New South Wales railway services may be curtailed next week, as railway coal stocks are not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Loading Accelerated At Ben Bullen
When operations at Ben Bullen get fully under way it is expected that 600 tons of coal will be loaded daily for White Bay, while other substantial tonnages will be despatched to Lithgow, and to Wodonga for use by the Victorian railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Hoard Growing Embarrassment To America
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.— The Unites States’ gold stocks totalling 24,230,000 dollars now amount to the greatest gold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Move to Settle Mine Trouble Captain's Flat Dispute
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A new efforts was made today to settle the dispute, that has laid idle the rich Captain's Plat lead concentrate mine since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Gold Hoard U.S. Reserves WASHINGTON
The United States gold stocks totalling 24,230 million dollars, now amount to the greatest gold heard ever held by any single nation, reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Immediate Cuts in Rail Service Denial of Coal Story
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Both the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) and the Railways Commissioner (Mr. Garside) tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain's Coal Output
LONDON. Wednesday Coal output in Great Britain last year was 2,500,000 tons short of the target set for the industry but it was nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cullen Bullen Open-cut Coal SYDNEY
The Joint Coal Board proposes to send 600 tons of coal daily from Cullen Sullen, on the Mudgee line to White Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open Cut Mining Resumes To Safeguard Supplies
In order to safeguard existing coal stocks and to avoid the recall of miners from holidays, some Commonwealth No. 2 employees this morning commenced coal production after a Joint Coal Board request for additional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Power Coal Dwindling Miners Asked to Cut Holiday
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Joint Coal Board has asked open cut coal miners in Western NSW to cut their holidays short and return to work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Reserve in Canada
EDMONTON, Thursday.— The Canadian Finance Minister, Mr. D. C. Abbott, told the Edmonton Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Money for Lead Miners £11/5/ Bonus
MT. ISA, Thursday: From February more than 1800 employees of Mt. Isa Mines Ltd. will receive a bonus of £11/5/ a week, in addition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enginedrivers' Ban On Holiday Open Cut Mining
Although the F.E.D. and F.A. State executive was said to have objected to its members working on the production of coal at Commonwealth No. 2 colliery the open cut was again working to-day, approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Open Cut Mine
LITHGOW, Friday: Despite objections by the union, coal is being produced today at Commonwealth No 2 open cut mine, a Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cut in Goods Traffic Rail Coal Short
SYDNEY, Friday. — The Minister for Transport, Mr O’Sullivan, said tonight that there would be a slight…
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