Zinc Mine Tours
The minc tours conducted by the Zinc Corporation will be resumed on Monday after a brief lapse due to the death of Mrs…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Vital Coal Talks
Sydney.—Three out of six of the craft-unions which are members of the C.M.U.C. have rejected proposals for aggregate meetings of…
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After only receiving Hirer trucks of coal instead of the expected five trucks last week-end, the Hospital is facing further reductions of the use of coal…
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Sydney, July 29.—Striking miners in Lithgow received a rebuff from another body of unionists today when in defiance of black ban threats…
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Adelaide.—When shearer Allan Lively, of Broken Hill, found it too wet near Olary for ordinary work he began prospecting: near Mount Painter. As a result he and two companions found the richest…
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Copenhagen, July 31.—A floating mine off the Shetland Islands delayed King Frederick and Queen Ingrid of Denmark on their way…
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Sydney.—The first important split in the New South Wales miners' front is likely to occur today at a special miners' meeting at Muswellbrook. The meeting is practically certain to decide on…
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Sydney July 31.—Hopes of an early end to the coal strike were dashed to the ground today when the acting chairman (Mr. W. Blair) and four other moderate delegates walked out of a meeting of Coal Mining Unions Council called to fix the date for aggregate meetings…
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R. O. Rushford (North) sustained a [?]uised left foot yesterday. He was taken to the Hospital for an X-ray, and [?]home to 510 Lane Street…
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Sydney, July 31.—One of the pilots of a Qantas freight plane was arrested by Customs officers as the plane was about to leave Mascot last night…
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Sydney, August 1 .—A special conference of northern miners lodge delegates will be held in Newcastle on Wednesday to discuss requests from many lodges for aggregate meetings to be…
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Decision of the W.I.U. to place a ban on work in a stope at the New Broken Hill Consolidated mine was put into effect today. The two men who were on day shift in this stope attended for work, but later went home. The dispute, which concerns two…
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Preparations are complete for full-scale operation by troops of open cut coal mines in N.S.W. shortly after midnight tonight. By daybreak tomorrow the first consignments of cool won should be on their way to gasworks and power…
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Sydney.—Coal won from New South Wales open cut mines since midnight by Army, Air Force and Naval men is already on its way to Sydney. After eight hours' work at Ben Bullen, near Lithgow, troops had won 600…
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Melbourne.—The gold mining Industry in Victoria would be doomed unless the CommonWealth could subsidise companies…
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Brisbane, August 2.—New Whitwood minors in the Ipswich district decided today to return to work next…
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Brisbane,—The miners of the New Whitford Mine have decided to return to work next Monday. This is the first pit on the…
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George Ripley, 151 Harvey Street, miner at the North Mine, was treated at the Hospital yesterday for strained neck muscles and allowed to for home…
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Struck by timber at the North Mine today. L. Hodge, 50[?] Blende Street, a min[?]r, suffered bruises and abrasions on the face and neck…
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Sydney.—The first trainload of open-cut coal mined by the army reached Sydney from Muswellbrook at 2 a.m. today…
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