Coal To Burn For A Hundred Years
Queensland, in one freak deposit, has enough fuel coal to supply all of Australia and build up a tremendous export market for 100 years. THIS deposit is at Blair Athol in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1947
2,102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 78 of 106
Progress For Mining Unions Merger
Further progress in the move for the amalgamation of the Mining Mechanics' Association with the Miners' Federation was made yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Coal Output Today Near Peak; Maitland Main Idle
Coal production on the northern field was near peak today, with only one mine idle. This was Maitland Main, which remained out of operation despite an instruction to miners there by the Northern Executive of the Miners' Federation to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany's Looted Gold To Be Used To Help Europe
WASHINGTON, Wednesday: Prompt distribution of part of the 330,000,000 dollar gold store seized by Germany in the war has been agreed to by the U.S., Britain and France as an aid to Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Tribunal Hears Miners' Claims
SYDNEY.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher) today proceeded to deal with the general claim by the Miners' Federation for a 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Radio Talks To Miners
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners' leaders intend making a series of radio talks to New South Wales miners to "bridge the gap between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Interstate Coal Ships Busy
Five ships will leave Newcastle this week-end with 22,000 tone of coal for interstate ports. Ships due out to-day are the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shift Rate Rise For Miners
A claim by the Miners' Federation for increased rates for afternoon and night shift work has been granted by the Coal Industry Tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Enough Coal If Keep Up Output
Mining authorities say that if Northern mine-workers maintain their present rate of output sufficient stocks of coal will be built up by Christmas to meet Australia's needs for industry, railways and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →43 Mines Now Idle In Scottish Strike
LONDON, Sept. 25. A.A.P.—Forty-three pits and 13,208 men are now involved in the Scottish coal strike, which began last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tribunal Rules Day-wage Miners' Margins To Stay
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Under a ruling to-day by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher), payment of margins to day-wage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C.S.I.R, Survey Of Coal Properties
CANBERRA, Thursday.—A comprehensive survey into the physical and chemical properties of coal from Australian fields will be carried out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"No Coal Stability with Piecemeal Tactics on Claims"
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Stability in the coal industry would not be achieved if the Miners' Federation continued its "piecemeal tactics" in lodging claims to the Coal industry Tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bills In House To Drop Company And Gold Taxes
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) to-day introduced bills into the House of Representatives for abandonment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Takes Over Swansea Mine "Owners Refused To Cooperate
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board yesterday took over control of the Northern Rivers colliery near Swansea, said the Chairman of the board (Mr. A. K. Cameron)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contract Miners "Entitled to Rise"
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) said to-day that contract miners and wheelers we re entitled to some increase in pay because day-wage mine workers had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ayrshire Miners to Stay Out
LONDON, Sept. 26. A.A.P.—The Ayrshire miners, who had been expected to resume work, have decided to remain on strike until October 2…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Second Back Saturday Shift To-day
Northern and Western mine workers will work their second back week Saturday shift to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Respond Well For Second Back-Saturday Shift
Response of mine workers on the northern coalfields to the call for work on the second of the back-Saturday shifts today was almost 100 per cent, and as a result it is expected that more than 25,000 tons of coal will be added to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Films Blamed for Drift From Mining
Novelists, playwrights, and film producers, who portrayed mining conditions in lurid and sensational terms, rendered the industry a great disservice, said Mr. J. C. Webb in an address to…
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