Nirobi selected for Gold Cup
Nirobi is expected to make amends for an unlucky third at Hawkesbury last Week and win the Wollongong Gold Cup at Kembla Grange this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1954
316 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 13 of 16
Only 16 Out of Every 100 Miners Voted on Pillar Machines Issue
SYDNEY, Mon.—Only 16 out of every 100 members of the Miners' Federation, voted on the issue of machines in pillars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Search for Extended Use of Coal Urged
Establishment of pilot plants in which research scientists could carry, on the search for extended and cheapen methods of coal use and thereby help to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Legitimate Gold Digger
Hollywood's only legitimate gold digger went in the oil business today when she joined Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Council Elections
SYDNEY, Won.—Annual ballots for district and central council positions in the Miners' Federation will…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Order O Corrimal Mine Disp
The Local Coal Auth (Mr. F. Hickman) hal dered employees at the rimal Colliery not to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →7 miners killed by gas
BRISBANE, Wed.- Seven miners were killed after they were engulfed by an inrush of poison gas at the Collinsville State Mine tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Surveyor Buried Under Coal
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Hundreds of tons of coal almost buried a surveyor alive today when a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mass Funeral for Mine Disaster Victims
BRISBANE, Thurs.—A mass funeral was conducted today for the seven men who died in the Collinsville mine disaster yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conference On Dispute At Colliery
Mt. Keira Colliery was idle yesterday as a protest against the action of an overman in sending two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Corrimal Miners Resume Work
Corrimal miners will resume work this (Monday) morning. This was decided at a meeting of the Corrimal Lodge held at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Work In Mine Suspended Indefinitely
BRISBANE, Sun.—Work has been suspended indefinitely at the Collinsville State Coal Mine where…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Witness Tells of Cut in Mines Allocation
SYDNEY, Mon.—The State Coal Mines Authority had asked for an allocation of more than £1-million but received £500,000, a witness told Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Qld. Cabinet To Decide On Mine Disaster Open Inquiry
BRISBANE, Mon.—A request by miners for an open inquiry into the Collinsvilie mine disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →120 Miners Suspended at South Clifton
The 120 miners employed at the South Clifton colliery were yesterday suspended by the management. This decision by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second Way Out for Scarborough Mine Section
A conference at Scarborough Colliery yesterday agreed that a second way out should be driven into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Advance in Mine Drilling Method
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 Billingham, of an electric rotary drill carriage which is in many ways revolutionary in British mining…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Electricians' Certificates
At the examination for Certificates of Competency as Mine Electrician under the Coal Mines Regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mine Electricians' Certificates
At the examination for Certificates of Competency as Mme Electrician under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Gasifying Sulphur Coal
At N.S.W. University of Technology, Sydney, research is being undertaken on means of gasifying the sulphur-rich…
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