Board Plan for Coal Target
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Joint Coal Board plans for 1948 would include mechanisation and modernising of New South Wales mines and further development of open cut production, said the Chairman of the…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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'Jap Miners Live As Slaves'
TOKYO, Jan. 1.—Seventy-five thousand Japanese miners are working as slaves, under conditions unbearable for animals, in Hokkaido…
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CANBERRA, Friday—The Government Gazette notifies that Mr. Wylie Parker, of the Mutual Life Building, Hunter-street, Newcastle,…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—The State coalmine (output 1500 tons a day) will be in production next Monday, a week earlier than other New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.k. Gold Sales
LONDON, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—The Treasury announced that gross sales of gold in December totalled £25 million…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daylight Second When Speedy Mine Host Won
SYDNEY: Mine Host, starting at odds on, made a one-act affair of the First Six Furlongs Mixed Stakes at Moorefield today. He was not ridden out to…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The London Coal Committee has allocated 20,000 tons of coal from Britain for New Zealand railways…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Invent New Steel Prop
A RECOVERABLE tubular steel mining prop, simple in design and easy to use, has been invented by Messrs. J. Sneddon and J. Earl…
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LONDON, Jan. 4. A.A.P.—The Supreme Court of Pretoria granted to the South African Government a provisional order for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just Missed Coal Target In Britain
LONDON, Jan. 4. A.A.P.—Total British coal output in 1947 is officially estimated at 199,715,587 tons…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday—Attempts by the New Zealand Government to obtain the kind of coal the country needed, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Outlook Healthier Than for Long Time
SYDNEY: The coal outlook today is healthier than it has been for years. Of the many factors responsible for this the influence of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Power, gas and railway services in New South Wales have enough coal on hand to last until the miners return to work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EDITORIAL Ideas For Coal Mining
FOR generations the use of anything except timber for pit props has been frowned on because of the belief that the reactions of wood to various conditions can be easily "read" by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Medical Survey Soon
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board's medical survey of mineworkers on New South Wales coalfields will begin this month. The object of the survey is to…
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Colliers will be waiting at Newcastle wharves on Monday to load coal for interstate ports. It will be the first coal loaded…
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Falling 30 feet from a coal screen at Northern Extended mine yesterday, Frederick Charles Quintell, 39, of Teralba, screen hand,…
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A good attendance is expected when the mines resume on Monday and hopes are held that normal production will be achieved quickly. Some mine-workers have…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Blair Athol coal would be the cheapest good quality coal in the world on the site, the Premier of Queensland (Mr. Hanlon) said to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.K. Miners' President Warns Enginemen
LONDON, Jan. 9. A.A.P.—The President of the National Union of Mineworkers (Mr. Will Lawther) warned enginemen in the coal…
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