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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Open-cast Mining

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

Eleven million tons of open-cast coal will have been won during 1948 in Great Britain. This picture was made in the flat lands of southern Lancashire, where the seams lie only a few feet under the surface. Car is being taken to "fill-in"…

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Gold Field Work Is Delayed New Machinery For De-watering

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 2

De-watering of mines on the Lucknow gold fields has been interrupted by an obstruction in one of the shafts and work will…

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Gold Find At Kalgoorlie

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

KALGOORLIE: Two prospectors have made a rich gold find 200 yards from Gwalia railway station…

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Coal Crisis Men Ordered Out By Union

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Union to-day ordered its members at the…

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Liquid Gold In Canada's Wealthy West Rich Oilfields In The Making

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 6

OTTAWA (By Armail): There is new kind of gold in Canada's "Golden West." In the rolling foothills country where the prairies approach the Rocky Mountains, an oil boom has developed in the last…

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Miners Go Back After Holiday

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: All mines, except two small ones on the northern fields, re-opened today at the end of the…

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Cream And Gold Wedding

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

The marriage took place on New Year's Eve, at Christ Church Church of England. Enmore, of Miss Lilian Jessie…

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Coal Miners Make Poor Start in Production

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: In the New South Wales collieries' first three working days this year 19,569 tons output has been lost, mainly because of strikes by miners…

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Mining at Murrumbateman

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

Mr. Frank Winter who has had many years mining experience in the Yass district is endeavouring to resuscitate the industry. He…

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Captain's Flat Miners Decide Against Return

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

A mass meeting of striking miners at Captain's Flat this morning decided not to return to work…

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36/ a Week Demand Miners Out In Queensland

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE: All Queensland coal miners were idle to-day while miners held mass meetings to discuss their claims for…

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Finds Gold and Misses Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 6

KALGOORLIE, Mick Omodei, one of the four prospectors who discovered the rich New Gwalia gold mine, kept up his run of…

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Miners and Railmen That Triple Pay Strike

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 4

LITHGOW : Mineworkers leaders will in future advise mineworkers not to work on public holidays. while…

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Gold In Gutter

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 5

PERTH: After a cloudburst, service station proprietress Mrs. Lawrence found a six pennweight gold slug in the gutter…

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Big Task For Coal Man In England

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 1

In charge of the National Coal Board's reconstruction planning is 37-year-old E. H. Browne, who won a reputation for brilliancy as a Director of a Manchester mining concern, before going into State Service when the mines were…

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SCHOLARSHIP Issued By N.S.W. Coal Board

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 1

Deamond Hay, a pupil of St. Patrick's Technical School, has been awarded a matriculation scholarship by the N.S.W. Joint…

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Endeavours to End Coal Trouble "Temperamental Engineer" Named As Cause

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY: Swift moves by the Coal Industries Tribunal, the Government and the Miners' Federation to end the strike at three big Newcastle mines, which threatens to close down the metal and building industries throughout Australia, were made this morning…

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Only One Mine Started To-day

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

NEWCASTLE: Miners at two of the three B.H.P. mines refused terms of settlement offered by the…

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Miners Decide to Resume This Morning's Decision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: The strike at B.H.P.'s coal mines, ended this morning, when miners, at pit top meetings, decided by an overwhelming majority to return to work immediately…

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Petrol From S.A. Coal Urged

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 6

ADELAIDE The State Government should investigate further the economic posssibility of making petrol from Leigh Creek…

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