Open-cut Mining. New Machinery for North
Over £200,000 worth of additional new open-cut coal mining machinery, bought by the Joint Coal Board, has arrived in Sydney…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 78 of 78
Colliery Fire Cuts Down Output
The destruction of more than £10,000 worth of haulage machinery by fire at Bellbird Colliery early on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Windmills for Electric Power British Experiments To Conserve Coal Supplies
LON DON: Windmills, an almost forgotten feature of the English landscape May soon appear again. Scientists and engineers have launched a country-wide investigation to discover whether modern windmills can make an important…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Adriatic Fishing Boat Strikes Mine
LONDON, Dec. 22. — Rome radio reported that eight members of the crew of a motor fishing boat died when it struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finance For New Louth Park Road Drainage Coal Board To Be Approached
At the request of the South Maitland Flood Mitigation Committee, Lower Hunter Shire Council has agreed to arrange a deputation to the Joint Coal Board to ask financial assistance to drain or pump the water from the drain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Will Load Open-Cut Coal
LITHGOW. Friday. — Members of Wester Miners’ Federation and associated craft unions have agreed to load coat lying at grass…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →1949 Coal Production
The Joint Coal Board estimates that coal production in 1949 will be 1,081,000 tons less than in 1948…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain Has Coal For 200 Years
England has enough workable coal to last more than 200 years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Than 10½ Million Tons of Coal
New South Wales mine workers will produce nearly 10,640,000 tons of coal this year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Year's Coal Output More Than 10,500,000 Tons
New South Wales mine workers will produce nearly 10,640,000 tons of coal this year…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gas Production Direct Front Coal Seams
LONDON.—Britain is to attempt to produce gas direct from her coal seams without mining. Apparatus for the experiment is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inexperienced Men in Mining Industry Registration of Employees Sugested (By old Timer)
Recently a man, who was classed as an experienced miner was killed on the Maitland coalfields At the Inquest it was proved conclusively that the man was not an experienced miner, and the general consensus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: “Service And Sacrifice” Production Cost of Uranium Reduced Scientist Says It Is Now As Cheap As Coal
NEW YORK, December 27—New uranium fuel con now be produced relatively ,et cheaply as coal, a leading atomic scientist said yesterday. Dr. John Dunning, of Columbia University, told a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine That Goat!
TAMPANULL , Sumatra : A mantailing Sumatran liger recently killed an old woman in a village near here, [?] local Republican guards set…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Miners Favour Wage Restraint
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Delegate[?] representing nearly 700,000 British miners yesterday decided to back the Trades Union Council’s…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Than 10½ Million Tons of Coal
New South Wales mine workers will produce nearly 10,640,000 tons of coal this year. The Joint Coal Board gave this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Winners From N.Z. Yearling Sales Gold Rod
Purchased by Mr. E. J. Watt at the 1935 [?] Gold Rod won the Epsom and Doncaster, A. J. C. St. Leger. Futurity States and Chelmsford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Film Projectors For Schools In Mining Areas
The Joint Coal Board has completed its programme of assisting all public schools in predominantly coal mining areas to secure 16mm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Building Societies
Forty-eight mineworkers who are members of Miners’ Co-operative Building Societies have completed the building of new homes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Coal Production Down
New South Wales coalminers produced 10,784,6[?] tons of coal during 1949—985,439 tons less than the 194[?] total…
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