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

Mining & the mines, 1954

358 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 13 of 18

Mine Dispute

National Advocate · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Sunday; There were new developments in a dispute at the Lake George mine at Captain's Flat, near Canberra, when at a ma[?]…

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Lithgow Colliery Idle Today

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 30 August 1954 · page 1

A number of local issues, including a claim by the men that two employees should do the work previously…

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Search for River Gold

National Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Five Sydney spearfishermen and a prospector are banning an expedition to search NSW silvers for gold…

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Western Gold Mining Company's Off List

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 2

In a shock move yesterday the Stock Exchange removed 12 gold mining companies from the Exchange's official list…

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Poor Conditions for Ussr Miners

Central Western Daily · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 7

LONDON.—Must Russian coal miners in the Donetz basin live four or five to a room in which they…

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Search for River Gold

National Advocate · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: In two months' time a company will start diving operations in rivers in NSW in search of alluvial gold…

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Mine Firms Off List Exchange Ban

National Advocate · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Stock Exchange today removed 12 gold mining companies from the Exchange's official list…

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Miners' Decision on Coal Extraction

National Advocate · Monday 6 September 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday: Voting by Queensland miners has put the issue of the mechanical extraction of pillar coal beyond doubt. Mass meetings…

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Heavy Influx of Water Caused Abandonment of Work on Black Lead Gold Claims Many Years Ago

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 6 September 1954 · page 7

Water at the rate of 500 to 750 gallons per hour had to be contended with, says a report on Scully's claim at Black Lead during: Gulgong's earlier gold mining days…

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Smoking Materials in Collieries

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1954 · page 2

Two State Mine employees, pleading guilty in today's court to having had smoking materials in their possession while…

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Local Collieries Declare dividends

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 4

Net profit of Lithgow Valley Colliery Co. Ltd. for the year to June 30 is shown at £15,598 after earmarking £50,000 for…

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Miners’ claims rejected

Central Western Daily · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 3

The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher,…

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Wants Another Mine

Central Western Daily · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 11

JOHANNESBURG.— Mr. Sidney Krandall, of Detroit, Michigan, already owns a diamond…

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Aldermen See Red (Also Green, Gold)

Central Western Daily · Saturday 11 September 1954 · page 4

GOULBURN—A colour problem is concerning aldermen of Goulburn City Council…

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Nugget of Gold from Happy Valley (Gulgong) Weighed Nearly 90 ozs. in 1871; Earnings up to £80 per week

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 12

(Thirty-third instalment of a series of extracts from a Department book on the Magnetic prospecting of the Gulgong Deep Leads for gold in the district's early days)…

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Hearing Of Mine Conspiracy Charge

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 2

A solicitor said in Central Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that a Lithgow contractor, William Brown, aged 76, of Inch-street, who has been charged with 17 counts of false pretences' with conspiring to defraud…

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Mine Stoppages on Margins and Meat

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

Several hundred mineworkers from three district collieries stopped work today for 24 hours to protest against the delay in the controversial margins claim and also against the unusually high…

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All District Mines Working

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 2

With all district mines in production today following yesterday's 24-hour stoppage by the Steelworks, the State and…

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Western Mining Personalities

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 4

The latest issue of "The Coal Mirier" contains its usual page of mining personalities in the West, and we are indebted to the courtesy of the editor for reproduction as follows: --…

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Reduction in District Coal Production

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 1

With one mine out because of a local industrial issue, another as a protest against the margins claim and two…

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