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Mining & the mines, 1952

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Coal Production Higher

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: New South Wales coal production for the first 10 months of the year was more than 24 per cent higher than…

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Treatment of Retired Miners Deputation To Hospital Board

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 5

A deputation comprising Messrs. G. Neilly, F. Steele, F. Pambleton and F. Creswell, attended a…

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Mine Closure No Reflection on Contractors

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 1

The chairman of the Joint Coal Board, Mr. S. P. Cochrane, said last night that the closing of New Raven open…

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Coal Board Grants To Cessnock Area

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 December 1952 · page 4

CESSNOCK: Original plane for the Cessnock Police-citizens‘ Boys’ club will be carried out, following a grant of…

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Good Work By Miners

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 2

COAL miners are holidaying after a record year’s production of more than 15,000,000 tons. This was about 1,500,000 tons better than last year. For the first time for more than ten years the…

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Mine Closure No Reflection on Contractors

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 6

The chairman of the Joint Coal Board, Mr. S. F. Cochrane, said that the closing of New Raven open cut was in no way a…

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To-day’s Leader Good Work By Miners Call for Investigation Into Korean Atrocities Communists Charged With Crimes Against Humanity

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON: A congress cal committee has called for the immediate investigation by the United states Con grew of Communist atrocities in Korea end-a United Nations’ investigation of other Communist crimes against humanity. The cail comet from the special House of Representatives committee which…

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Two Hundred Chemicals From A Lump Of Coal

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 December 1952 · page 4

Technicians of the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Co. expect to extract more than 200 chemicals from…

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Plans For Developing Blair Athol Coal

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK: American and Australian enterprises prises plan to spend more than 60,000,000 dollars (about £26,785,000) on the development of Hair Athat coalfield in Queensland, says the “New York…

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