Mine Accidents
H. S. smith injured his back at the North Mine yesterday. After treatment he was taken home to 116 Cummins Lane…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Mine Accidents
A Dini, North Mine employee, suffered injuries to the right shoulder, hand, and wrist yesterday. He was taken home to 172 Piper Street after receiving…
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A Dini, North Mine employee, suffered injuries to the right shoulder, hand, and wrist yesterday. He was taken home to 172 Piper Street after receiving…
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MELBOURNE.—"If the Premier of South Australia (Mr. Playford) challenged the validity of the Coal Industry Act, the…
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ADELAIDE.—More than 1000 tons of coal were rushed to major consumers from the collier River…
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The Chief Inspector of Mines in Sydney, Mr. J. Salter, will visit Broken Hill on Monday week. Mr. W. Wines, secretary…
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SEMI-FINAL of the Broken Hill Table Tennis Association's A grade competition produced some of the best play for the season. In both matches games were level and results were decided on points…
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R. S. Loughman sustained burns to face and eyes at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. After treatment he was taken home to 196 Pell Street…
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The check Inspector. Mr. W. O'Connell, inspected the North Mine. Thompson section (Old Britain and later reported:…
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The South Mine is still making tests of the old Central Mine residue dumps said Mr. F.N. Thomas, manager, yesterday. Some months ago the South…
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HUGE SEAS BREAKING OVER the collier Stanley Park as she was passing through Bass Strait on the way to Adelaide with badly needed coal, cracked several plates in the after deck. The ship was turned back to Melbourne, where the coal was…
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A vast mine-sweeping operation making European waters safe for the unrestricted movements of shipping, is now nearing completion…
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Adelaide, August 13.—After more than a week of most drastic electricity, gas and transport restrictions ever imposed simultaneously upon Adelaide industry and householders, it appears that some cuts will cease tomorrow through the arrival…
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Fifty-eight students of the Faculty of Engineering from the Mildura University will be arriving in Broken Hill on Sunday to pay a brief visit to the mines…
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Adelaide, August 14.—After 15 days of continuous restrictions through failure of coal supplies from Newcastle electricity and gas services were provided in…
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LONDON, August 15.—Following an explosion, 111 miners have been trapped four miles under the sea in the Whitehaven colliery in Cumberland for five hours without rescuers being able to make contact with them…
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New York, August 15.—At Illinois, three miners were killed and two injured when an explosion occurred in Orient Number Two Mine. Eighty-seven men…
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One mine accident was reported from the ambulance room today, R. J. Harris, Zinc Corporation, strained his back and was taken…
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London, August 17—Fifty-four bodies have been found and 50 men are still missing as the result of an explosion in the William Pitt underwater coalmine at Whitehaven. When practically all hope had been abandoned three men walked out…
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ONE-time foreman and later superintendent of the old Proprietary mine mill, Mr. W. A. V. Piper is spending his annual leave here after 17 years. He is much impressed by changes made at the mines…
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