Gold Fever Grips South Africa--Richest Strike
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 1
LONDON, Friday.--A gold strike described as "very [?]" has been made in the Orange Free Sta[?] South Africa, Reuter's financial editor reported today. He said that the strike had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Witness Surrenders Attempted Killing of Union Ross
National Advocate · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 3
DETROIT, Thursday: Donald Ritchie missing witness in the attempted assasination in, 1948 of Walter Reuther president of the Congress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Gold Strike South African Find
National Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 1
LONDON, Friday: A gold strike described as "very rich" has been made in the Orange Free State. South Africa, Reuter's financial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Mine Fire Is Serious, Declare Miners' Officials
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 2
Three hundred feet below the earth's surface, men fighting the State Mine fire are on the retreat. Despite an official "soft pedal" on news the fire, which began last August, is gaining ground and might completely defeat all efforts to contain it, mining union officials said at the week-end…
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National Advocate · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sunday Another seal is being built ia an attempt to hale a fire in the State Coal Mine at Lithgow…
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Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, This Aft.--The Attorney-General (Mr. Sheahan) is expected to order the prosecution of two men following investigations of allegations in State Coal Mine…
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National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1
LONDON, Mon.— Atomic energy development within 20 years will produce sufficient electricity for Britain's needs scientists believe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Probe Legal Action Against Two Men
National Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: Prosecution of two men following police investigations into irregularities in State Coal Mine activities will be ordered by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Mine Fire Communist Inspired Says A.L.P. Secretary
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 2
Press reports containing statements that the State coal mine was unsafe and had been placed in a critical position by an underground fire were subtle Communist propaganda, the secretary of the Lithgow branch of the…
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Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 6
Irrespective of the disposition of coal orders between the various collieries, the present employment in the industry throughout the Lithgow district would be maintained, the Minister for Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Check on State Mine Red Propaganda Alleged
National Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 6
LITHGOW, Tuesday: The Minister for Mines, Mr. Buckley, said today he would immediately send the chief mines inspector. Mr. Durham,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Legs Fractured In Coal Fall
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1
A Hermitage Colliery employee sustained fractures of both his legs when trapped by a heavy fall of coal at the pit yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conditions At State Mine Grossly Distorted
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1
Reports describing conditions of the State Mine fire were grossly distorted and were not in the interests of Lithgow or the men employed in the mine, the Minister for Mines (Mr. F. P. Buckley) said in a signed statement handed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Classification of the Sedimentary Rocks of the Gulgong Goldfield
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 20
(Thirteenth instalment of a series of articles by the Mines Department on the Magnetic Prospecting of the Gulgong Deep Leads for gold in the district's early days)…
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Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2
A workman engaged on painting Lithgow railway station sustained lacerations to the forehead when he struck his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Injured by Fall of Coal
National Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3
LITHGOW, Thursday: A mum Edward Sloan of Lithgow both [?]th legs broken when he was trapped today in a fall or coal at the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Western Mining Industry Is Still Unsettled
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2
Fears that further widespread dismissals were imminent in the coal mining industry on the western field mounted during the weekend, when five N.S.W. Mining' Company staff employees received dismissal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expert Inspection Of State Mine
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1
Department of Mines inspectors and the lodge representatives today carried out a further examination of the fire area in the State Mine as a precautionary measure aimed…
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Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1
With coal mining companies at two of the district's mechanised mines asking for union sanction to an afternoon shift as a condition for the absorption of Western Miners' Federation members who have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water Gas In Mines To the Editor
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2
Sir.--In reply to the letter published in the Mercury on the 20th, in which Mr. W. Lumley explains the generation of…
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