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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines
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CANBERRA.—A new British plant has been installed in South Wales coalfields to trap the coal dust lost in tipping, washing and screening at the pithead. It is already saving coal at the rate of 1,000,000 tons annully. When the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—Attendances at mines today were better than yesterday, approximately 90 per cent, of the men in the north reporting for work, but 10…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, January 2.—Britain has coal reserves for only 40 years, and she should prohibit the export of coal, according to Mr. W. Wakefield Adam. Mr. Adam is chairman of British Coal Distillation Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. January 2. — Vast potential goldfields which will open a new chapter in South African history almost certainly exist in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—Six of eleven colleries idle in N.S.W. yesterday resumed today, and the coal loss will be only 3800 tons. The percentage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH.—On December 12 a notice was posted at Wiluna mines telling employees that as operations had been carried out at a loss during the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—Only three mines were idle in N.S.W. today and the production for the first Week of 1945 will exceed the production for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold output for 1944 in Australia, it is estimated, will show a small decline on 1943. Output in 1943 was worth £7,851,000. In 1940 it totalled £17,520,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, January 4.—There was an improvement in coal production today when five Northern collieries resumed were after being idle yesterday. Five Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late last year the presence of gas in specified placet in the South Mine caused mine officials, mines inspector and check, inspector concern and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, January 5.—Proposals to make the miners more contented and thereby increase coal production are being considered by the central council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Only one colliery, the Pelton, in the north, is idle in New South Wales today as a result of a dispute. The trouble arose on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RETURN of mine employees and their families to Broken Hill after holidays spent in Adelaide and surrounding districts continued yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold output for [?] in Astr[?] is estimated will show a small [?] on 11949. Output in [?] was worth £7,851,000. in 1940 it totalled £17,520,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canberra, January 8.—"Every pit in Australia is working, and I hope this is happy a[?]y for the opening of a new [?] in coal production," said the acting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ernest Melbourne, of [?] Cummins Lane, a miner at the Zine Corporation, suffered a [?]ated sh[?] while at work today. After Hospital treatment he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine employees resuming after the Christmas holiday period have benefitted from a retrospective lead bonus payment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—Six collieries were idle in N.S.W. today for the loss of 6000 tons of coal. The men at the North Wallarah did not work because one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE.—A smaller loss of £3,134 is shown by New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd. for the year ended September 30. It compares with £4280…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?] Hartley, an employee of the South Mine received [?] at work but night which resulted In a braised, back. He was taken to Dr.[?]…
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