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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
451 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 23
Confirmation of the Mayor's statement this week that the Joint Coal Board had treated a civic-coal industry deputation in a cavalier manner when it urged full employment in the western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A single pileline, stretching for more than a hundred miles may one day pump large size coal into London at the rate of millions of tons a year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine managers would not take orders from the Miners' Federation on when overtime should or should not be worked, and managers had bluntly stated they were determined they would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tests of Wallerawang Colliery coal under a special new gas-making process in Germany had proved "most satisfactory," a spokesman for the Australian Gas Light Company said today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In 1948 the Joint Coal Board's plan to exploit the western coalfield and build a modern industrial town at Wallerawang, exuding civic pride and achievement envisaged by 1953 a population approaching 8,000. Today, the overall plan consists of nothing more than countless sketches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two representatives of the Joint Coal Board are conferring in Melbourne with the Victorian Premier (Mr. Cain) and Victorian railway officials on the purchase of western New South Wales coal. The representatives are Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, This Aft.--A spokesman for the Coal Board said this afternoon that negotiations were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Orange banks have received gold from local prospectors for some time and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Despite the fact that the number of employees at the State Mine had been increased, coal production, since 1949 had decreased, Mr. W. McNally told the Goal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday: A collapse in underground workings of the Pelaw Mam Colliery at Kurri Kurri, has almost completely wrecked 12 homes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: The British Salvage Company's ship. 'Foremost 17 which salvaged most of the lead and copper from the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, Wednesday.— Ten sailors were killed in naval operations off the south-eastern coost of Indo China, last week, the French Navy revealed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Joint Coal Board hoped to stop stockpiling coal by the end of June, a member of the board, Mr. A. E. Warburton,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday: A story was told at an industrial hearing in Sydney today about the whole community of a little mining today becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The president of the Northern Miners' Federation, Mr. F. H. Cockerill, told the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning a railway yardman sustained head injuries when struck toy a piece of coal which fell from a truck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aimed at bringing about an improvement in the trading position for western coal, a further deputation of Local Government and union officials from Lithgow, Wallerawang and Portland today waited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although employees were at work this morning, the Commonwealth washing plant at Commonwealth, Lidsdale, did…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday: Principally because of strikes, the loss of coal output from 20 idle mines on the northern field exceeds 15,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mosquitoes and disease carrying germs were being encouraged to breed without restriction in abandoned open cut mines in the Wallerawang-Lidsdale-Cullen Bullen district Mr. Arthur Kenna…
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