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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1953

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Reds May Get Control of Miners' Union

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 December 1953 · page 1

Sydney: Communists may regain control of the Miners' Federation in vital ballots to elect a general…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 10 December 1953 · page 1

M. Vellesarakes (North) was taken hometo 539 Riends-Street suffering from a foreign bodyin the right…

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Cheap Coal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 December 1953 · page 7

London. Wednesday: Workmen searching for an old drain at Gresley. Derbyshire, struck a coal seam…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 11 December 1953 · page 7

A Allen (Zinc) was taken home to 185 cobalt Street yesterday suffering from a bruised left foot…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 December 1953 · page 1

H. Groutsch (North), of 344 Oxide Street, and H. Matthews (Zinc), of 648 Bromide. Street, were both…

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Mine Accidents

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 December 1953 · page 3

C. R. Copland (NBHC) was taken home to 303 Eyre Street yesterday suffering from a sprained ankle…

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First Mines Shut for the Holiday Recess

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 12 December 1953 · page 3

As from midnight last night, the North and south mines have closed down for the annual three weeks Christmas break, and will not re-open until Wednesday, January 6…

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New Miners Sec Known This Week

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 15 December 1953 · page 1

Sydney, December 14.—New general secretary of the Miners Federation will be announced this Week…

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Mine Act Cose Fails

Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 December 1953 · page 1

A charge against a Zinc Corporation miner, Keith Charles Smith, for an alleged breach of the Mines Inspection Act was dismissed in the Broken Hill Court today…

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More Mine Men and Families Off on Holiday

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 December 1953 · page 2

The second stage of Broken Hill's Christmas holiday exodus started today. Special trains and planes and hundreds of motor cars will take residents to all States…

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More Gold This Year

Barrier Miner · Saturday 19 December 1953 · page 4

Canberra: More gold was produced in Australia during the first nine months of the year than in the…

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More Gold This Year

Barrier Miner · Saturday 19 December 1953 · page 4

Canberra: More gold was produced in Australia during the first nine months of the year than in the…

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A.l.p. Win in Miners Ballot

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 19 December 1953 · page 1

Lithgow, Dec. 18. The Vice-President of the Western Miners Federation (Raymond…

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Coal Mines to Close

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 4

Sydney: Coal.Board officials and colliery proprietors are negotiating to close eight or nine uneconomic…

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Coal Mines Supt. Sacked

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 1

Sydney: Mr. A. C. Pellow. superintendent of State coal mines, has been dismissed from his position, which…

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The Barrier Mines Tuesday, December 22. 1953. Water Restrictions!

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 December 1953 · page 3

JUDGING by the manner in which the Menindee pipeline and the pumping capacity at Stephens Creek are functioning citizens are not looking to the future hot…

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Buried Under Coal Fall

Barrier Miner · Thursday 24 December 1953 · page 11

Melbourne: A State Electricity Commission employee was killed this morning in a, collapse of brown coal in a…

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Mine Managers' Examination

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 30 December 1953 · page 2

The following candidates were successful in passing the recently conducted Mine Managers' Examination: D…

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Gold Theft at Mine

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 December 1953 · page 6

Darwin: A gold robbery at the Eldorado mine, Tennant Creek, has been discovered. Some zinc precipitate,…

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Zincs New Mine Fan

Barrier Miner · Thursday 31 December 1953 · page 8

The Zinc-N.B.H.C. mining companies have completed the installation and testing of the largest single-stage…

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