Gold Reserve Fall
LONDON: Britain’s gold and dollar reserves fell by 163 million dollars during December…
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Mining & the mines, 1955
112 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 6
Coal. Newcastle's Strategic Role
Thirteen thousand em-N ployees of the Newcastle mines produce two-thirds of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Advance In Mine Drilling
More than four years of work on design, construction and trial has led to the evolution in the anhydrite mine of Imperial Chemical Industries at Biilmgliam, of an electric rotary drill carriage which is in many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germany’s Coal Production
The soft-coal output of the Federal Republic surpasses that of pre-war Germany by 20 million tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wants Research On Coal
SYDNEY: Dr. L. J. Parr Lib., Burwood) to-day urged the setting up of a research institute to find new avenues…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Driver’s Spine Fractured In Colliery
KURRI KURRI: The district [?] (Mr. R. G. [?] found yesterday that a shuttle car driv[?] died is [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All Mines Work
CESSNOCK: All mines are in production on the South Maitland coalfields to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →13 Mines Get Rise in Price Of Coal
SYDNEY: The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran) said last sight that the board has approved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All Mines Work
CESSNOCK: All mines are at work on the South Maitland coalfields to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Injured By Fails Of Stone
KURRI KURRI: Arthur Hardy, 28, of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri, miner at Abermain No. 2 colliery, had his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Holidays In Europe
LONDON: The Coal Board of Britain is starting a saving scheme to help miners pay for holidays on the Riviera, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Open Cut Only Mine Idle
CESSNOCK: All mines, with the exception of the Neath open cut, are at work on the South Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Employees Injured
John Thompson, 57, of Main-road Neath, a top hand at Abermain No. 2 colliery, fell down some steps and injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Pump Coal in Pipelines"
British coal authorities are now experimenting with a plan to pump coal direct from the pit face to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →38 Miners Die in Turkey
ISTANBUL: The bodies of 38 miners were recovered from Gelik coalmine, near the Turkish Black Sea port of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disputes at Four Mines
CESSNOCK: There was a production loss of 4400 tons on the South Maitland coalfields to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter’s Win In Coal Board Cup
Helders of the Coal Board Cup, Singleton, were comfortably beaten by the Hunter River on Sunday at Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputy Killed in Mine
KURRI, KURRI: A Hebburn No. 2 mine deputy, George William Watson, 59, of Cessnock-road, Weston,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Maitland Mines Idle
CESSNOCK: Aberdare Extended colliery remained idle to-day over the dispute concerning the payment of skip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Mine Idle
CESSNOCK: All mines on the South Maitland field are working to-day, with the exception of Aberdare Extended,…
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