To-day’s Leader : Oil From Coal Rammed Tanker In Bad Way
NEW YORK, June 4.—Waterlogged and battered by heavy waves, the 10,000 tons Since is drifting about 120 miles off the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Fabulous Gold Strike In South Africa 529 Ounces to the Ton
JOHANNESBURG, June 3.—A fabulously rich gold strike—nearly three times larger than any previously recorded—was reported to-day from a borehole on a farm at Erfdeel, 12 miles south-east of Oldenaals Rust, in the Orange…
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LONDON. June 6.—South Africa has made a formal application to the International Monetary Fund for a higher gold mice. The board…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Criticism of Mine Owners
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today criticised mine owners for not taking legal action available to them…
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The Erfdecl gold strike, the richest ever made in South Africa, has touched off the maddest stock…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Aberdare miners, at a pit-top meeting this morning, decided to have a one-day stoppage as a protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coal Exports Rise
So far this year, coal exports from Britain have been 1,500,000 tons more than for the same period last year. Total production so far this year is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners Pensioners' Conditions. (To the Editor)
Sir,-I go a long way with Mr. M. H. Harper's plea for miners'pension [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Doctor Amputated Main's Leg at Colliery. Fitter's Terrible Ordeal
A man's leg had to be amputated by a doctor at Richmond Main colliery oN Friday so that it could be released from the shaft of the coal elevator where it was caught The operation was performed in 25 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Pensioners Resent Mr. Williams' Statement. Meeting of Paxton Branch
Resentment at the statement by the President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams) claiming that men at 60 years of age were mentally and physically unfit for mine work, was expressed pressed at the monthly meeting of the Paxton and District Mine…
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CAPETOWN, June 7.—Anglo-American representatives will visit South Africa in the next few months of the Government’s invitation to discuss production of atomic energy. This was announced in the House of Assembly during the Budget debate by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Louw)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fabulous Gold Strike in South Africa 529 Ounces to the Ton
A fabulously rich gold strike—nearly three times larger than any previously recorded—was reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Grants For Play Centre
The Joint Coal Board to-day advised Lower Hunter Shire Council that £160 was to be made available for provision of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Collieries Idle
CESSNOCK Thursday.—Maitland Main and Pelton collieries are the only idle mines on the South Maitland field to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Injured
KURRI KURRI. Thursday. — Perce Grainger, of Maitland-st., Stanford Merthyr, a miner, employed at Buchanan Borehole,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Warn P.M. of Likely Coal Crisis Owners Would Not Conciliate
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Because coal owners had refused to conciliate and discuss any reasonable settlement the conference on the mining unions’ log of claims had broken down, said the general president of the Miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Situation
SYDNEY. Thursday.—The mine owners to-day asked the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to order miners not to carry out the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Injured
Perce Grainger, 37, of Maitland street, Stanford Merthyr, a miner employed at Buchanan Borehole colliery, received an incised wound to the right…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One Mine Idle
CESSNOCK, Friday. — The only mine Idle on the South Maitland field to-day was Maitland Main, where a continued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Pensioners' Bowls Competition
A new competition for a trophy donated by Mr. R. Smith was started by Mine Pensioners' Bowlers on Tuesday afternoon when three rinks from…
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