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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1953

120 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 6

Stocks Of Coal Biggest Ever

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 January 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Principal coal consumers throughout Australia would begin 1953 with the biggest…

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Pakistan Test Of Callide Coal

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun. -- Pakistan's trial shipment of Callide coal proved its "amazing capabilities."…

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Little Hope For Entombed Miners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 3

PERTH, Tuesday--Chances of finding alive, two miners who were trapped by a fall of earth in Baddera lead mine, near Northampton, 400 miles north of Perth, yesterday afternoon, have now…

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Miners' Bodies Still Buried

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Wed.—In a renewed effort to locate the bodies of two men who were buried iN a 500-ton…

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Count Gold; £5573 M. Worth Of It

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wed.—A Republican member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Carroll…

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Rescue Team Enters Mine

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Fri.--The stope in Baddera lead mine at Northampton, W.A., where Herbert Coles and George…

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Miners Resume

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.—More than 23,000 miners throughout Australia will return to work to-morrow after three…

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Search For Bodies Of Miners Ends

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Sunday.—The week-old search for the bodies of two miners trapped by a fall of earth in Baddera lead mine at Northampton, 380 miles north of Perth last Monday, ended yesterday…

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To Mine For Coal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 2

INVERELL.--The mining of coal at Arrawatta would mean the extension of a brick kiln and the…

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Thick Coal Seam

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1953 · page 2

PERTH, Frid. -- A coal seam 37 ft. thick has been discovered in a new coal basin 7½ miles north…

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Bucca Gold Was Plentiful in the Nineties

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 3

Probably there are many in this district now who do not know of the riches produced from the Bucca Creek mines in the good…

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Larger Gold, Dollar Reserve

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.--Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Butler, opening a debate on the recent…

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Miners Investigate State Of Funds

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--The Miners' Federation Central Council yesterday elected a committee of six to investigate the funds of the Union's central office…

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Petrol, Oil From Coal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 6

JOHANNESBURG.--On former maize fields 15 miles from Vereeniging, on the banks of the Vaal river,…

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Injunction On Coal Carrying

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 4

In the Equity Court, Sydney, the Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Roper, granted an injunction against…

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Gold Locket In Cow

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 3

A fortnight after finding a bicycle tyre tube in the stomach of a cow killed at the South Grafton…

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The Gold Coast Volta River Project

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 1

The Volts River project in the Gold Coast is an ambitious scheme for the joint development of resources of water power and [?] and the production of aluminium by the United Kingdom and the Gold Coast Government…

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Mining At Nymboida Could Become Big Industry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 March 1953 · page 3

Nymboida Colleries Pty., Ltd., could easily develop into a huge industry which would prove of immense value to the prosperity of the Florence River district…

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Rifle Shooting. Raleigh Retains Gold Cup Dorrigo's Challenge Fails

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 March 1953 · page 6

The Dorrigo Rifle Club team made a gallant but unsuccessful attempt to regain possession of the Mick Feros Gold Cup from the Raleigh team last Sunday. The locals were defeated by eight points, after…

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Sack for Miners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 3

LITHGOW, Fri.--Nearly 300 mineworkers at Western District coal mines received dismissal notices…

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