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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 16 of 18

Fossil Bones and Teeth Met With on Gulgong Goldfield in Early Days

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 1 November 1954 · page 7

(Thirty-seventh 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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Additional Trucks for Collieries

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 2

Additional trucks for the western coalfield are being switched to Lithgow from the southwest of the State, through…

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Question Of Coal Trucks

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 5

In Parliament on Tuesday afternoon Mr. J. Chalmers, M.L.A. asked Mr. Wetherall: "Is it a fact that there is an…

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Miners Terrified by “Flying Saucer”

Central Western Daily · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 16

SHABANI (Southern Rhodesia). — A panic among Africans working on night shift at Shabani…

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Subsidy For Gold

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 4

The Commonwealth will pay up to £2 an ounce subsidy for gold produced in Australia, Papua and New Guinea in the…

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Memory of Gold Days

National Advocate · Friday 5 November 1954 · page 2

Bathurst Council has secured from the Sydney University two photostats of Hargraves' record of his finding gold in the Bathurst district. The…

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Western Mining Personalities

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 8 November 1954 · page 3

The following western mining personalities are mentioned in this month's issue of "The Coal Miner" by whose courtesy they are reproduced. Lithgow Valley clipper Leo…

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State Government Buys Coal Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 2

State Cabinet yesterday authorised the Electricity Commission to buy the Huntley Colliery, near Port Kembla…

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Ballot for Miners Officers

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 5

Ballots for the positions of District President of the Miners' Federation check inspector and the Western District Board…

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Heavy Fines For Overloaded Coal Trucks

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 4

Substantial fines were imposed on a number of second and third offenders in Tuesday's court when several local and district lorry drivers were summoned for overloading their vehicles…

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Pumping Plant Overcame, Stu[?] Gold Lead Water Troubles in 1916

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 November 1954 · page 11

(Thirty-eighth 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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Transfer of Ulan Power Station and Coal Mine to Electricity Commission

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 15 November 1954 · page 1

Ulan County Council has been advised of the basis on which the Electricity Commission of N.S.W. will take over the Ulan power station and coal mine. The Commission agrees to:…

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Alleged State Mine Conspiracy

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 17 November 1954 · page 5

William Wile, 40, of Lillian-street, Campbelltown, appeared in Central Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on five Charges…

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Cobar Colliery Employees Picnic

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 18 November 1954 · page 2

Cobar Colliery's annual picnic held at Glenroy on Sunday, November 14, was a success. Lodge members and their…

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State Mine Dumping Coal

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 3

More than 5,000 tons of coal were lying at grass at Lithgow State Mine owing to the fact that sufficient coal trucks…

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Tech. College Coal Diploma Courses

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 2

At the University of Sydney and the N.S.W. University Of Technology, 27 students of coalmining engineering are…

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State Mine Shaft to Be Abandoned

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 2

Disregarding the expenditure of huge sums of public money, the State Government has decided to abandon the new shaft sunk into the State mine from the mountain top at Newnes Junction and to concentrate on the development of an entirely different sec ion of the colliery…

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Canadian Gold Lead in 1872 was one of Most Remunerative in Gulgong

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 5

(Thirty-ninth 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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Coal Under City Streets

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday; Nearly 20 million tons of coal will be dug from under the streets of Nottingham, big industrial city in the Midlands, if the…

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Announcement on Miners' Ballot This Week

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 7

The results of a recent ballot conducted by the Western Miners' Federation among district lodges are expected to be…

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