Work Carried on Day and Night in the "Star Lead" Gold Mine 83 Years Ago
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 20 September 1954 · page 11
(Thirty-fourth 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 a days)…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Open Cut Mining Is Practically Ended
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 2
Open-cut mining in the Lithgow district has practically received its final death blow and today only one mining company is operating in the industry which ripped a great expanse of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Bullion Stolen In Daring Raid
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 1
LONDON, Wednesday--Two cases containing gold bullion worth £46,000 sterling were stolen in a daring daylight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Want Investigation Of "Hoodoo Mine"
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Miners at the Oakdale State Mine today decided at a pit-top meeting not to return to work until Monday. At the meeting the miners also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Theft Work Of Underworld Master Mind
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 3
LONDON, Thursday.-- Flying squad police hunting the gang which snatched £46,000 sterling in gold in a daring,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chairman's Post For Former Mines Minister
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, This Afternoon. The former Minister for Mines (Mr. J. G. Arthur) announced today that he had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Big Loss in Coal Production
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 2
While five district mines held one-day protest stoppages today as a result of the blowing of the "no-work" whistle at Invincible Colliery on Wednesday, miners at a sixth mine, Kandos Coomber,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Job for Arthur Colliery Chairman'
National Advocate · Saturday 25 September 1954 · page 4
SYDNEY. Friday: Former Mines Minister Mr. J. G. Arthur has been appointed chairman of Consolidated Collieries Association…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poor Week For Miners
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 1 October 1954 · page 1
Although coal production on the western field has been reduced by one-quarter in recent years, an acute shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal From Under the Sea New Scottish Mine London
National Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1954 · page 5
A new mine to be sunk in Fife, Scotland. will, by 1060, be yielding 5,000 tons of coal a day—from under the waters of the Firth of Forth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In 1895, Miners Persevered to Find and Test Deep Ground of Star Lead
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 4 October 1954 · page 5
(Thirty-fifth instalment of a series of extracts from a Department book on the Magnetic prospecting of the Gulgong Deep Leads for gold in the districts early days)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Officers Visiting West
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 1
Three central executive officers of the Miners' Federation will address mine workers at Lithgow, Portland and Kandos…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Mining Personalities
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 5
"The sport up here doesn't seem to be like it used to be," is the somewhat nostalgic comment by Ben Dykes, a Lithgow Valley colliery deputy, who has had more than a passing acquaintance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Milestone Near in Coal Industry
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 4
The introduction of mechanical extraction of pillar coal in some N.S.W. mines will constitute one more milestone in the development of the coalmining industry, says a special writer in the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortage of Trucks Causes Coal Dumping
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 2
With the shortage of rail waggons causing concern throughout the coal mining industry, two western mines have been compelled to take the unique step of dumping quantities of coal on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck. Shortages May Cause Mine Dismissals
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 2
Fearing that the acute shortage of railway waggons on this held may lead to widespread dismissals of mineworkers before the Christmas break, both the Western Coal Owners' Association and the Western Miners' Federation are making direct appeals to the Minister for Transport (Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OPPOSITION ran President of Western Miners
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 1
A former central councillor of the Miners' Federation will oppose the president of the Western Minors'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortage of Coal Trucks Trade Loss Feared
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1954 · page 2
LITHGOW, Monday.—Miners' leaders on the western coalfields in NSW are arranging a deputation to the Minister for Transport to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Causes Fire on Ship
National Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 7
THE HAGUE, Tuesday: Fire which raged aboard the 3.099 tons Norwegian steamer Folga after she struck a mine in the North Sea yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Hauliers On Overload Charges
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 4
Eleven coal hauliers, operating mainly on the Mudgee-road from Ben Bullen to either Renown Siding or Commonwealth Washery, were fined a total of £1634- in Tuesday's court on charges of…
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