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

Mining & the mines, 1950

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Homes for Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 5

Forty-eight mineworkers who are members of Miners' Co-operative Building Societies have completed the building of new…

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Coal Board School Projectors

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 January 1950 · page 5

The Joint Coal Board has completed its programme of assisting all public schools in predominantly coal mining areas to…

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Railway Warning Shortage Of Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY: The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Garside to-day warned that train services in the State…

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Model Colliery For Lithgow Show

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

Following representations by the Lithgow show Society, the Joint Coal Board has agreed to construct a working model of a mechanised colliery as an (exhibit for the" 1950 show, which will be staged on February 3 and 4…

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S.a. Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 3

The South Australian Government will import 50,000 tons of black coal from South Africa as soon…

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Serious Damage To Mine Home

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

An outbreak of fire occurred at Captain's Flat early on Monday evening, in a dwelling owned by the Lake George Mine…

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Gold Recovery

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

BRISBANE: A revolutionary electrolytic process for recovering gold from iron pyrites ores is claimed to have been introduced by Mr. A. L. Peach, English industrial chemist, now visiting Brisbane…

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Miners Go Back To work

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: No industrial disputes were reported on the northern coalfields this morning when 12,000 miners returned to…

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Coal Board Welfare Grants

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 8

New welfare, grants that have been approved by the Joint Coal Board include the provision of additional…

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Miners Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Four northern mines were idle to-day making a loss of 2,850 tons of coal. Mechanical breakdowns were…

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Retrieving Pillar Coal in Mines Miners Refuse To Give It Consideration

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

Miners' representatives walked out yesterday when tile Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. Gallagher, began the hearing of an application by colliery owners for permission to extract pillar coal mechanically…

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Coal Strike Affects Railway Figures

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

Although revenue received at Goulburn railway station during 1949 from passenger fares and parcel freights was, slightly under the 1948 figure, it is evident that but for the coal strike…

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Coal Strike Had Serious Effect on Crookwell Railway's Annual Turnover

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Statistics released this week by the local Stationmaster, Mr. Percy Charlton, reveal that the interruption to rail services brought about by the coal strike in July and August…

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Coal Loss

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY: Strikes and the weather have caused the heaviest loss of coal this year, about 8500 tons being lost. Five mines…

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Lake George Mine

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 2

Operations of Lake George Mining Corporation Ltd., of Captain's Flat, N.S.W., were seriously affected last year by…

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28 Mines Idle 20,000 Tons Lost

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Twenty-eight mines were idle to-day and the coal loss will be the heaviest since the general strike last year…

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Experiment with Pillar Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 8

MAITLAND, A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board at Cessnock stated that millions of tons of pillar coal might be…

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Mines Lose

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Twenty-three coal mines were idle in N.S.W. to-day for a loss of about 4000 tons. Nine of the mines were idle…

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Safety in Mining

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

Hitherto one of the most dangerous jobs in coalmining, boring and shotfiring is made safe by a power-operated safety device invented by Mr. Arthur Tr[?]w, Manager of the New Croasshands Colliery in South Wales, and Mr. Walter…

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Mines Idle in U.s.a

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 5

PITTSBURGH, Monday: Roving pickets made sure that every major soft coal mine in the United States remained idle…

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