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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Coal Stocks For Holiday Period

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Industry would have about one week's supply of coal on hand when all mine workers returned to work on January 16 after their Christmas…

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Zircon Mining Near Evans Head

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 December 1949 · page 3

LISMORE, Fri. -- One of the largest beach mining undertakings in Australia is likely to be developed on the coast a few miles…

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Miners Vote For A.L.P. Candidate

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 December 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sun.--Mr. G. H. Neilly A.L.P. candidate, defeated J. Comerford, left wing candidate, in the ballot for the…

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New Minister Has Talks With Coal Board

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The new Minister for Fuel (Senator McLeay) has already conferred with members of the Joint Coal Board to get first-hand knowledge of the…

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Miners To Load Coal At Grass

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW, Thurs.--Mineworkers on the western coalfields have agreed to load more than 70,000 tons of coal lying at grass…

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Witness on Mine Disorders

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 December 1949 · page 5

ENUGU (Nigeria). Friday (AAP).--First miners' witness before a Commission investigating last month's disorders at…

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Mine That Tiger

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1949 · page 5

TAMPANULI, Sumatra A man-eating Sumatran tiger recently killed an old woman in a village near here. So local…

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Conclusions on Coal Industry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 December 1949 · page 6

Output of underground coal mines was little above pre-war levels. Production per manshift has declined from 3[?] to 3 tons over the past ten years…

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Britain Has Coal For 200 Years

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1949 · page 6

Britain has enough workable coal to last more than 200 years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250 million tons a year. This…

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Miners Back T.u.c

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 December 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Fri. (AAP).--Delegates representing nearly 700,000 British miners, yesterday decided to back the Trades Union…

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Coal Output Down This Year

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Official figures issued by the Joint Coal Board to-day showed that N.S.W. mines this year…

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