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Mining & the mines, 1946

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Star Gold for Welter Won in Grand Style at Newcastle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 6

The Welter Handicap at Canterbury to-morrow has been divided and Star Gold is left at the head of the weights for the first flit with 9.9…

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Rise In Costs Affects Gold Mining

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 26— The president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Mr. G. Caricton Jones, said a considerable…

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Colliery Amenities

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

The Aberdare Colliery Combined Mining Unions Pit Amenities Committee held a further meeting on Tuesday, 22nd October. Representatives from the…

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Australian Colliery Staff Association

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 6

An important meeting of the Staff Association will be held to-night in the School of Arts, Cessnock, at 7.30 p.m., the main business, being the acceptance…

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Eight Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — With eight mines idle in the north today, coal production loss will be about 10,000 tons, the greatest…

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Four Large Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—There are four large collieries idle on the Maitland field to-day involving a loss of 4700 tons…

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Idle Mines. Sydney, Tuesday

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 2

With eight mines idle in the north to-day, coal production loss will be about 10,000 tons, the greatest for some weeks…

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Miners Entertain Pensioners. Muswellbrook Gathering

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

At the Muswellbrook School of Arts on Saturday night last over 250 miners from the Muswellbrook collieries entertained at dinner twenty-seven…

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Struck by Fall of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday—Arthur Hoy, 28, of Chapman-street, Cessnock, a miner, employed at Elrington colliery, received injuries…

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Amalgamation of Mining Unions Aggregate Meetings at Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

"In certain quarters, opposition is in evidence is the scheme for the amalgamation of the F.E.D.F.A. with the Miners' Federation" said the State…

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Bird Caused Mine Short Circuit

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 2

A sparrow which caused interference to electrical equipment was responsible for a loss of production of 300 tons of coal at…

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Return of Polish Gold

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 1

WARSAW, Oct. 30.—The Canadian Government has agreed to ration unconditionally to Poland 17,000,000 dollars worth of…

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Goodwill Between Miners and Owners

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 4

MUSWELLBROOK: At the Muswellbrook School of Arts over 150 miners from the Muswellbrook Colliery entertained at dinner…

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Five Mines Idle To-day

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK, :Thurs. — Various disputes held tip five large collieries on the Maitland coalfields to-day involving a loss of over…

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13,000 Tons Of Coal Lost To-Day

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs. — With 11 mines idle to-day the coal loss will exceed 13,000 tons, the highest for three months…

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Muswellbrook Misses State Coal Mine

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 1

Because the seam is "cindered" the proposal for a State coal mine at Muswellbrook, estimated to yield 1,000,000 tons of coal a year…

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New Mines to [?]

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 1

At the [?] meeting of the Cessnock A.L.P., [?] J. M. Baddeley said five mines would be opened in the Awaba district in the near future, including an…

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Five Large Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK Friday.—There was another heavy loss in production on the Maitland field to-day owing to the idealness of five large…

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Tanker Struck Mine Off Greece

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 4

ATHENS, Oct. Sl.—Nine of 10 passengers and all six of the cres were killed when the Greek tanker Petros…

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Goodwill Between Miners and Owners

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 1

At the Muswellbrook School of Arts over 150 miners from the Muswellbrook Colliery entertained at dinner 28 retired miners…

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