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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 18 of 18

Oil Danger To Coal

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday.--The secretary of the N.S.W. Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association, Mr. R. W. Davie, said…

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Increases For Miners Dissatisfy

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 6

The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, yesterday granted increased marginal rates for coalmine industry…

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Coal Lift to Free- Victorian Orders

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 2

In order to maintain a steady supply of coal to the Victorian Railways and to overcome the disadvantages…

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Coal Price Increase Unnecessary

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 6

A blanket increase, in the price of coal would be a "sheer imposition" on the public, Senator W. P, Ashley said last…

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Political Hocus Pocus and State Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 6

The State Government had, for some time, been attempting to find an excuse to get rid of the State Mine at Lithgow or, at least, to avoid working the inbye areas, and it had only been…

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Spilt Ink Started A Gold Rush

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 2

A new kind of gold which out-glitters the real thing is today's best selling line in the multiple stores…

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Two Collieries Are Idle

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 3

With the miners three-weekly Christmas break only five working days away, a flare up of industrial activity was…

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Demonstrations Against Former Colliery Head

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 2

Former superintendent of the Lithgow Valley Colliery and Hermitage Colliery, Mr. Athol Lightfoot, was the central…

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Councillor Nominates For Miners Vice-president

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 2

A member of the Western Miners Federation Board of Management and official of the Newcom Colliery lodge, Mr. P…

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Mine Subsidence In Cobar-McKellars Area

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 2

Mr. A. S. Luchetti, Member for Macquarie, is arranging to meet the Minister for Mines in regard to the subsidence in the McKellars-Cobar Park area which occurred on Friday afternoon…

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Invincible Colliery Second Unit

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 5

The Invincible Colliery Ltd. hoped that the second, mechanised unit would operate during the current financial year, said…

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Record Coal Production

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Coal production from underground mines this year will be a record--13,715,000 tons. Output from open cut mines totalled…

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Holiday Coal Supplies Safe

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Miners throughout N.S.W. will go on holidays for three weeks from tomorrow, but supplies of…

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Coal Output Record Despite Open Cut Fall

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 December 1954 · page 3

Production and consumption of New South Wales coal in 1954 established records, the chairman of the Joint…

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Wallerawang Colliery's Goodwill Gesture

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

Everyone at Wallerawang colliery from the pit boy to the top level directors received Christmas hampers yesterday to the value of £55- each. It was just one more tangible expression…

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Hangover for Miners

Central Western Daily · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday.— A Daily Mail report says the “biggest hangover” since the Government…

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Western Mining Personalities

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 4

"The Coal Miner" for November-December has the following to say on western coalfields personalities: "A fisherman is something…

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Nil Desparandum Mine at Canadian Lead Was Something Unusual in the History of the Gulgong Goldifeld

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 3

(Forty-first 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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