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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

202 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 11

Denies Coal Emergency

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon. -- A Joint Coal Board spokesman said today that it was "an overstatement" to say that a state of…

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Drop In Incidence Of Mine Diseases

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Silicosis tuberculosis among miners had been reduced and by more than two-thirds by preventive methods, the Minister for Health (Sir Earle Page) Said to-day…

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Survey Shows Coal in Riverina

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.--Recent surveys by the Bureau of Mineral Resources had disclosed in the Riverina district that there…

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Serious Mine Unrest Threatens

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Industrial observers believe that serious unrest is looming on the New South Wales coalfields. They say that area committees, which operated during the…

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Coal Output Below Needs

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Australia will be nearly five million tons of coal short of her requirements during the current…

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American Coal Stocks Dwindling

Daily Examiner · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thurs, (AAP).-- The nation's stockpile of coal last night was reported to be down to four million tons, which…

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France Takes Over Saar Coal Mines

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

PARIS, Fri. (AAP).-- France has taken over the rich Saar coal mines for 50 years, in an agreement signed in Paris to-day with…

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Bill To Seize U. S. Coal Mines

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP) -- Senator Wayne Morse (Republican) last night introduced a Bill in the…

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Frontier Gold Rush Stopped

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 4

BRUSSELS.-- By a single stroke of the pen, M. Paul van Zeeland, Belgium's Foreign Minister, has ended a…

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Minister For Coal Talks

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun. --The Minister for Fuel and Shipping, Senator McLeay, will hold a conference in Sydney to-morrow…

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Talks on Coal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator McLeay) conferred for three hoars in Sydney…

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May Reshuffle Coal Board

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The decision of the chairman of. the Joint Coal' Board, Mr. K. A. Cameron, to resign, may lead to a reshuffle of…

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May Subsidise Coal Imports

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wed.--The possibility of subsidising imported coal will be studied at a conference between the Minister for…

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Lack Of Coal Hits Steel Production

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Because of an acute coal shortage, a critical situation was looming at the Newcastle B.H.P. plant and also at Stewarts and Lloyds, said the manager of B.H.P. (Mr. K. Butler)…

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Miners' Attitude Forces Coal Import

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.--New South Wales miners were making rods for their own backs by forcing coal imports and further development of mines in other States, the…

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Two Miners Killed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 4

PERTH. Fri.--Two miners who fell 300 feet down a mine shaft at Big Bell Colliery this morning were killed instantly. They…

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Appeals To Miners To Use Arbitration

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--An appeal to the Wonthaggi miners to resort to arbitration for the settlement of their claim was…

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Action to Supply Coal for Steel Works

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Joint Coal Board has taken action to help overcome the shortage of coal for steel making at…

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Mine Explosion

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tues. (AAP)-- Five children were killed and 12 others injured in a mine explosion at Jerusalem. The…

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Mine Deputies On strike

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Maitland mine deputies, who caused 39 coalmines, to be idle to-day when they held a stop-work meeting, have decided to remain oh strike…

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