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Mining & the mines, 1952

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Small Child Killed By Truck At Foybrook Mine

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 4

An 18-months-old boy was killed at the Foybrook opencut mining centre yesterday morning when he was hit…

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Development Of Underground Mining In Singleton Area

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 4

SINGLETON: Underground mining would probability [?] open-cut mining in the Singleton district within the next fire years, if markets for cool warranted such development…

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Miners Voice Determination to Stay Below Protest Demonstrations To Be Arranged

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 November 1952 · page 1

SINGLETON: The stay-in strike at Great Greta mine at Glendonbrook may result in a tie-up of all mines on the southern and western fields. Lodge president (Mr. Cliff Allen) said to-day…

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South Maitland Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 3

CESSNOCK: Richmond Main, Aberdare Extended Stanford Main No. 2, and Pelamaln are all idle to-day…

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Pillar Extraction of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: A Sydney spokes an for the Miners Federation said to-day that the union would not change its policy of…

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Humidity May Tell On Stay-In Miners

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 3

SINGLETON : The high humidity content in the Great Greta colliery at Glendonbrook may effect the health of 27 miners humidity content in down the pit…

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Stay Down Strikers Still Holding Out at Glend'bk Mine 1,000 Men Out In Sympathy SYDNEY

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 November 1952 · page 2

More than 1000 men in nine northern coalmines to-day struck in sympathy with the 27 stay-down strikers at Great Greta (Glendonbrook) Colliery…

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Pit Sense of Miners

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 2

CESSNOCK: Mine workers developed, with experience, a sense of impending danger known as “pit sense,” a…

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Great Greta Miners Still Determined

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 5

SINGLETON: The 27 stay in miners at Great Greta colliery at Glendonbrook are still in the mine and declare they…

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Small Child Killed by Truck at Foybrook Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 1

An 18-months-old boy was killed at the Foybrook opencut mining centre on Thursday morning when he was hit…

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£4378 Joint Coal Board Grants for Muswellbrook Welfare Committee's Recommendations

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 1

At its meeting at Cessnock on Thursday last, the Cessnock North-West District Welfare Committee of the Joint Coal Board, the budget of approved expenditure within the Muswellbrook,…

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Why Production Has Been Cut Difficult to Sell Small Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 1

Muswellbrook open cut, which produces gas-making coal, will be required to cut its daily output to about…

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Entry to Mine Banned

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 5

SINGLETON: The stay-in miners at the Great Greta colliery at Glendonbrook are still below ground and, after a visit…

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Canadian Gold Subsidy

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

OTTAWA: The Canadian Government has decided to provide an additional 4,000,000 dollars (£A1,826,400) a year…

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Miners Have Good Time at Big Annual Picnic

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 3

Employees of Liddell and adjacent mines staged their first annual picnic at Speer's Point on saturday and the…

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Mine Sightseers to Be Treated As Trespassers Men Still Down

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 November 1952 · page 2

Sightseers, who hare been making a thorough nuisance of themselves at Great Greta Colliery where…

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Only Two Mines' Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 7

Only two mines were idle on the South Maitland field today. Great Greta miners were in the eighth day of their stay-in…

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Coal Protection in N.S.W.

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 7

The Joint Coal Board has estimated that so far this year to November 15, total coal produced in New South Wales…

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Pakistani Coal Mission to Visit Muswllbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 November 1952 · page 1

The Pakistani coal mission will visit the Newcastle area next week. The mission will have a look at selected mines as well as the open cuts at Muswellbrook and Singleton…

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