One Flywheel, 40 Tons. World Record in Mine Equipment
In two minutes a load of 8 tons can be brought up from a mine 6000 feet down by an electric winder sent out from Great Britain to one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1941
61 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 4
Conditions in England. Nazis Drop Land Mines. Letter From London
By English mail dated June 4, Mr. J. A. Winney, of Taree, received (on August 2 here), a letter from his brother (Mr. S. O. Winney, of Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conditions in England. Nazis Drop Land Mines
By English mail dated June 4th Mr. J. A. Winney, of Taree, received (on August 2nd here) a letter from his brother (Mr. S. G. Winney, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Coal Miners on the Job
The British miner says that Great Britain is going to win the war, if coal production will do it. The Nazi propaganda of coal shortage in Great Britain merely spurs him on to greater efforts. The output is increasing daily, and the enemy's bombing is treated with contempt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young King Coal
When you burn coal in your household grate you are wasting most of it. Halt the heat goes up the chimney and many valuable by products are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Courses, 10d. English Miners Living Well
Three-course meals for tenpence are now being served daily from one o'clock to half-past six at Mansfield colliery in Nottinghamshire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil From Coal. No Present Prospect
Following its recent representations on the subject of exploitation of coal for oil, Macleay Shire Council at its meeting yesterday had a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold From Rain
Thomas Fox began to make a fortune when he saw a dandy carrying a rolled umbrella. He knew there was money in the idea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Off Port Phillip
A floating mine was found by a fisherman off Port Phillip Heads, Victoria, yesterday. Later a minesweeper picked it up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Are Blood Donors
In response to offers by British coal miners, a blood transfusion, service van was taken to a colliery pithead and many blood gifts were made. In this picture at the pith ead miners watch a comrade as he had a preliminary blood test…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two More Mines Found
Two more enemy mines have been found off the Australian coast--one in the sea off Barwon Heads, Victoria, and the other at Albany,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pension for Miners
The Hon. J. M. Daddoley, M.L.A. Deputy Premier, Minister for Mines and Chief Secretary, addressing the members of the Coal and Oil Shale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Found. Off Victoria and West Australia
Following the report that a fisher man who was working in a sea lane near Port Phillip Heads on Monday bad discovered a floating mine, there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil and Coal
A correspondent writing on October 7 from Pasdena, California, says:—Dr. Robert A. Millikan, noted physicist and head of the California Institute of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Valuable Bauxite Mines Under American Protection
Washington: The White House announced to-day that a contingent of American Troops were occupying Dutch Guiana to protect the bauxite mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dutch Guiana Mines U.S.A. Troops on Guard. Washington
The White House announced today that a contingent of American troops were occupying Dutch Guiana to protect the bauxite mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S.A. Coal Strike Three Men Shot. New York
Three men were shot, but none seriously wounded, to-day in a fresh outburst of violence in the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Gold Nuggets
Mr. Win. Dawley, now resident in Kempsey, but for many years in West Australia, where lie knew the late J. O'Brehoun, brimful of mining lore,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine-sweeping and Fishing Gear
The "Argus'" is advised from the naval authorities, that complaints have been made by fishermen that damage to their fishing gear has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Support
The Miners' Central Council decided to-day to give every possible support to the Federal Government to ensure maximum production, and to…
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