Coal Lack Affects Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Monday.— Irregular coal shipments from Newcastle to South Australia have caused a serious position in power supplies…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Special Bus for Striking Miners
Employees of Burwood, John Darling and Lambton B collieries returning to Newcastle after pit-top decisions not to work had crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clear Up Anomalies On Mine Pensions
A POLICY statement by the Miners' Pensions Tribunal to clear up complaints and anomalics was expected within a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Authority Asked To Prove Charge
The Local Coal Authority (Mr. J. Connell) was asked yesterday by the Northern Miners' Board of Management to name the board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners To Pay Levy For Rail Strikers
The Northern Miners' Board of Management decided yesterday to strike a levy of 2/ a member to assist strikers in Queensland. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Wants Mining Diploma Classes
Cessnock Municipal Council, at a special meeting last night, objected to mining diploma classes being held in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Tell Conference More Amenities, More Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coalfield amenities would be a condition to higher coal production, miners' leaders will tell the conference with Federal and State Ministers, members of the Joint Coal Board and coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Colliery at Liddell
The programme of opening up new coal mines under State ownership includes a new mine at Liddell in the Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Plan Lake Mine Amenities
A three to five-year programme of works for amenities for coalmining communities in the Lake Macquarie district will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →8984 Tons Coal Lost Yesterday
Coal production loss in New South Wales mines yesterday was 8984 tons. In the north the loss was 7602 tons, in the south 1051…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Mines Idle In North Today
Coal production slumped again today, seven pits being idle in the north for a loss of approximately [?]000 tons. The borehole seams of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton in Plan for New Mines
The programme of opening up new coal measures in various parts of New South Wales and placing them under State ownership and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Coal Value For Rating Sought
Kearsley Shire Council will seek an increase in the value of coal for rating purposes. This was decided last night on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Board Votes For Tea At Pits
The Northern Miners' Management Board yesterday approved of the Joint Coal Board's scheme for serving tea to coalmine workers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Brief Fantastic Attempt In U.S. To Sell Silver Mine Shares Artificial Blood From Fungus Of Sugar Refineries
Using fungus from sugar refineries, British scientists are making artificial blood plasma, which may relieve the burden on blood donors. The discovery is described as revolutionary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →6200 Tons Of Coal Lost In North
The coal production loss yesterday was 6200 tons in the north, 510 in the south, and 240 in the west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Creeps
The recent creep at New Lambton brought to my memory a similar creep which happened about 60 years ago, half-way down the hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Underground Light Test In Mine
The Electrical Engineer (Mr. A. F. Kirk) and Assistant District Engineer (Mr. Seeward), of the Joint Coal Board, accompanied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Coal Loss 6740 Tons
Strikes caused a loss of 6740 tons of coal in the State yesterday. The loss in the North was 4720 tons. Northern mines which continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Set Up Advisory Coal Committee
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The coal conference decided to-day to set up a committee of three coal-owners' representatives and three mineworkers' representatives to advise the Joint Coal Board on…
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