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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

721 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 25 of 37

Coal Loss Over Glen Davis Miners Protest

National Advocate · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 8

LITHGOW, Thursday: A mass meeting of 400 western district miners and other unionists at Lithgow today decided to approach the…

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Vic. Gold Centenary

National Advocate · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Victoria celebrated the centenary of the discovery of gold in that State. First news of the gold findings…

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Seven Miners Killed Explosion at English Colliery

National Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: A gas explosion at a colliery near Durham in northern England, early today killed seven miners and seriously injured several…

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Extra Shift Boosts Coal Production

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON. — An extra 6.3 million tons of coal were produced from U.K. mines during the first 22 weeks of this year as the…

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Tow Collieries Idle To-day

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

Steelworks Colliery employees this morning came out on strike until such time as Mr.F.H…

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U.k. Miners' Great Effort

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 2

LONDON, Mon-- An extra 63 million tons of coal were produced from UK. mines during the first 22 weeks of…

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Gold Fort To Race In Sydney

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 12

Orange owned and trained Gold Fort will do its future racing in the Metropolitan area…

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Gold Centenary Funds More Suggestions Submitted

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

Last night's meeting of the Bathurst Gold Centenary Committee again did not arrive at any definite decision for the use of the funds obtained…

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Coal Output Heavily Cut By Three Stoppages

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 3

While the district executive of the Western Miners' Federation met this morning to consider the stoppage at…

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Miners' Federation Stays Hand On Glen Davis Issue

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 2

Pending the outcome of conference and discussions now in progress between the various union executives, the Western Miners Federation has withheld plains to hold a further stopwork…

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Coal Stoppages Cancelled

National Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 2

LITHGOW, Wednesday: Tomorrow's proposed stop work meetings on the western NSW coalfield have been cancelled. They had been called in protest…

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Lithgow Not So Gold

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, This Aft.-- Cold weather froze milk cans at Crookwell this morning arid burst water pipes in the town…

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Coal Output Down By Two Thirds

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 2

Coal production on the western field was today down to less than 8,000 gross tons, only two thirds of the maximum figures for the district. The stoppage of lorry drivers in the Commonwealth…

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Coal Output Increases N.S.W. Figures

National Advocate · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Compared with last year, coal production in NSW has shown an overall average increase…

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Call-up Will Cut Coal Yield

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 2

The Federal Government plan to call up young mine workers for military training was a blow against coal…

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Communist Move On Mining Mechanics Fail

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 2

Communist moves to get control of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association failed, in the ballot released last night, when the former State secretary, Mr. W. Crane, a member of the A.L.P., was re-elected…

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Miners Stop Work Over Pit Ponies

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 2

Possessing one of the best working records of any pit in the Lithgow area, Lithgow Valley Colliery lost a day's production when employees returned home this morning as a protest against…

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Coal Lift 10,000 Tons

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 1

At other points on the western field all was reported quiet, except at Commonwealth, where lorry drivers have…

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Miners Demand Stoppage on Balt Migration

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 2

Kandos miners came out in protest to-day against the unrestricted immigration of Balts and Germans to Australia and recommended to the district executive that one-day protest stoppages…

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Gold Fort Third at Grafton

Central Western Daily · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 16

GRAFTON, Wednesday. — Orange-owned and trained Gold Fort ran third in the Ramornie Handicap today…

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