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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

203 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 11

Abandoned Hope For Missing Miners

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday, (AAP). --Hope was officially abandoned last night for the 58 miners' still unaccounted for following the…

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Killed In Mine

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 June 1951 · page 1

PERTH, Friday.--Three men were killed and one seriously injured when a trolley fell 650 feet down an inclined shaft at…

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Miners Say Healy Should Be Gaoled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 4

LITHGOW, Tuesday. -- The twenty miners at Clandulla colliery to-day rejected a motion of protect against charges under…

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Gold Smuggling Subject Of Investigation

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1951 · page 3

DARWIN, Mon.-- The smuggling of gold from Tennant Creek to Singapore, and other ports in the East, via Darwin…

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Coal Production

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY Fri.--New South Wales miners produced 5,557,592 tons of coal up to June 23. This comprised 4,681,228 tons from…

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Coal Trucks Hit Car

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Fri. -- A man was fatally injured when 10 runaway coal truck's hit the car in which he was travelling, at…

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Nation-Wide Miners' Strike Threatened

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunda-- Australia- wide strike action by miners is threatened as a result of the Federal Government's declared…

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Glen Davis Issue To Prevent Mine Stoppages

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, to-day intervened in an attempt to prevent stoppages by western miners on the Glen Davis…

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Start Closing Gap In Coal Production

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tues.--It would be entirely unrealistic to export the gap between demand and production of coal to be…

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Labour M.H.R. Says Secret Ballots Will Not Get More Coal

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs. -- The Secret Ballots Bill will not get the Commonwealth Government more coal. It will get…

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Glen Davis Miners Call for Strikes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Miners' Federation has called for one-day stoppages next week of all unionists in coalfield areas to protest against the proposed…

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Railways Haul More Coal Than In 1941

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.--The N.S.W. Railways which in 1941 hauled 51 per cent. coal of its total goods carriage, now hauled…

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Record Output Possible From Miners In 1951

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--N.S.W. miners will establish a record this year if the present production rate is…

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U.K. Miners "220 Million Man Hours" By Extra Shifts

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 2

An extra 6.3 million tons of coal were produced from U.K. mines during the first 22 weeks of this year as the result of miners working…

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Miners Attitude To Call Ups

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.--Members of the Miners' Federation are likely to refuse to f[?]ll vacancies caused by the call-up of miners for military training. THIS was stated bythe…

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Gold Fort For Elworthy

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 July 1951 · page 4

Gold Fort and Slander, two topweights, are likely to fight out the finish of the Elworthy Handicap at Grafton to-day. GOLD Fort, who was third…

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Beach Mining

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 3

Beach mining had grown from a small beginning to an industry of great national and international importance, the Under…

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Dispute Causes Coal Loss

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--A dispute over lorry drivers' claims for increased cartage rates caused a loss of 5000 tons of coal at…

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Czech Miners Revolt; 15 Killed

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday. (AAP).--Czech workers in a Russian controlled uranium mine at Jachymov,…

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Big Output By Miners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--N.S.W. coal miners this week passed their output for the corresponding period last year…

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