Manpower for Gold Mining
PERTH.—The Premier (Mr. Willcock), as leader of the goldmining delegation which recently conferred with the Prime Minister, has…
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Mining & the mines, 1942
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Land Mine Invention
SYDNEY.—The inventor of the New type of land mine now being produced in Australia after being tested by military experts is a…
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After 43 years at the South mine, Mr. Richard Raymond Mayne retired this week. He has been an underground foreman at the mine since…
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SYDNEY.—Five New South Wales mines, involving, 1900 men and a loss of production of 5300 tons, were idle today. Four of the six mines idle or…
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SYDNEY.—It was stated today that were idle on the N.S.W. coalfields today, only three stoppages were due to strikes. The pits held up by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attacks Point to Coal Problem
SYDNEY.—Attacks by Japanese submarines emphasise sharply the probability of immediate problems of coal transport from the Newcastle and…
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SYDNEY.—Eight coal mines on three New South Wales fields were idle today. It is estimated that the production loss was almost…
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SYDNEY.—Under warrant four detectives yesterday raided a house occupied by a number of gipsies in Dowling Street, East Sydney, and…
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SYDNEY.—Four mines are idle in New South Wales today. One of the mines, Richmond Main, the largest producing…
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SYDNEY.—Four mines producing 2500 tons daily and employing 800 men were idle today. Two of the stoppages were due to disputes, one due…
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SYDNEY.—Four northern mines were idle today involving 1,500 men with a loss of production of 4,650 tons. Mines idle on other fields…
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SYDNEY.—Including stoppages at three pits which were in production yesterday, six mines were idle on the N.S.W. fields today, and it is…
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SYDNEY.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said today that because of the war most of the larger gold mines in this State had ceased…
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MELBOURNE.—Costing about £500,000, the giant dredge in the [?]Oyen's Valley near Bright, on which construction was begun three years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missed Death at Mine; Killed, at War
DEATH might easily have claimed Colin Cowan about 18 months ago on the North mine, when he was seri[?]sly injured in a cage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →19 Collieries Idle Today on Northern Coalfields
SYDNEY.—Nineteen mines are idle on New South Wales northern coalfields today in the biggest stoppage since the last general coal strike. Thirteen of the mines on strike involve 4570 men and a loss of production of 14,770 tons, while six other collieries, employing 855 men and producing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Menace for the Germans
LONDON, June 19.—German coastal waters are thick with British magnetic mines dropped practically nightly by British fliers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Circular Shaft Sunk on the Broken Hill Mining Field; Zinc Corporation Achievement
STARTED in 1937 the first circular shaft to be sunk on the Barrier field has now been completed to a depth of 2550 feet on the New Broken Hill Consolidated lease. It will be known as the N.B.H. downcast airway, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Heed Appeals Of Their Leaders
SYDNEY.—Miners leaders' appeals yesterday to lodges to work and allow the Millfield Greta dispute to be settled by arbitration had 100 per…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Gold-specker Finds £79 Nugget
MELBOURNE.— James Downing (73), British naval pensioner, picked up a nugget worth £79 at Timor, about 150 miles from Melbourne. The…
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