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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1953

632 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 32

"Because You're Mine" Eagerly Awaited

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1953 · page 8

Mario Lanza is back in another great singing role to rival that of his "The Great Caruso" which proved one of…

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All Mines Work—Holiday Pay

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 June 1953 · page 3

CESSNOCK: All the mines on the South Maitland coalfields to-day - are in production…

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Claims Upper Hunter will become chief coal source

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1953 · page 1

The coal resources of the Singleton – Muswellbrook area would eventually take the place of the Newcastle coalfields area as the chief source of coal. Mr. Ferrier, of the Town Planning section of the Department of…

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Women’s Bowls, Coal Board Trophy

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 June 1953 · page 6

Hunter District Women’s Bowling Association will hold its competition for the Coal Board trophy on Thursday…

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Big Coal Loss To-day

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 3

CESSNOCK: There is a in production on the South Maitland field to-day of more than 6000 tons due to the…

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Coal Price Down

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 5

The Muswellbrook Coal Co. advised Wednesday's meeting of the Municipal Council that the price of coal had been reduced by…

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Estimated Coal Production

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 7

Production of coal in New South Wales for the week ended May 23 has been estimated by the Joint Coal Board…

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Heavy Loss of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Twenty-nine mines are idle in N.S.W. to-day for the loss of 15,000 tons of coal…

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Eleven Idle Mines On Maitland Field

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 3

CESSNOCK: There is an other heavy loss in production to-day on the South Maitland field, caused by mines…

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29 Mines Idle To-day SYDNEY

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 2

Twenty-nine mines were idle in New South Wales to-day, for a loss of 1500 tons of coal. The workers at 28 of the pits are…

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Mine Inquiry Continues

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: An official of the John Darling lodge denied before [?] Coal industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day that…

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37 Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Thirty-seven northern New South Wales mines were idle to-day. Nineteen of the mines…

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Steep Increase In Coal Production

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Five million tons of coal have been exported so far this year against 3.68 million tons…

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Miners to contact D'Arcy Rose on housing issue

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 3

At a meeting of mining unionists in the N.A.A. tea rooms last Thursday night a delegation was…

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Singleton Coal Operations Mentioned at Commission QC’s Comment On Statement

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: A former mining company manager, whose written statement was [?]bed by Mr. G. Wallace, Q.C., as “a curious mixture of truth, half-truths, and falsehoods,” was first witness at the Doyle Royal Commission to-day. Mr. Wallace (for the Joint Coal Board) said that some of the statement did…

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Four Idle Collieries

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 3

CESSNOCK: There is a loss of production of aapr[?] 4000 tons on the South Maitland coalfield…

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Caught In Fall Of Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 3

Caught in a fall of coal at Aberdare Extended Colliery this morning, Colin King, 29, a miner ,of Sparke St…

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Coal Loading Again At Hexham Soon

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 3

Coastal colliers will begin loading at Hexham in two to three weeks—for the first time in almost three years…

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Fire In Fatten Coal At Abermain

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 2

CESSNOCK: Fire which bloke out in a fall of 2000 tons of coal at Abermain No. 1 colliery has been brought…

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Horse Shod with Gold in Early Days

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 1

Mr. John Lennox, licensee and proprietor of the Royal Hotel, Cassilis, who is still hale and hearty at the ripe age of 81…

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