Coal Loss Down To 3207 Tons
The Joint Coal Board estimated the State's coal loss yesterday at 3207 tons—1893 tons in the North and 1314 tons in the South. All…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Foot Crushed in Fall of Coal
William Brown, 58, miner, of Abel-lane, Wallsend, had his right foot crushed in a fall of coal at Stockrington No. 2 colliery…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Plans for a model gold mine were announced to-day by Sir Harry Moxham…
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Mervyn Langan, 17, of Wollombi, a top-hand at Maitland Main colliery, fractured his right forearm and suffered…
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The Joint Coal Board estimated the coal loss in the State yesterday at 3775 tons. The total loss on the Northern field was 2160 tons…
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GENEVA, Jan. 27. A.A.P.—The seven major coalfields of Europe produced nearly 50 million metric tons more coal in 1948 than in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dual Threat: Extra Mine Shift
Demands by two organisations threaten the smooth-working of Northern collieries on the Australia Day holiday on Monday. Mr. Murray Stewart, Federal…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—Jammed against the roof of Hermitage Colliery by a heavy baulk of timber early this afternoon, Ern Sheppard,…
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'ADELAIDE: Australia's wartime Coal Commissioner (Mr. Norman Mighell) has a plan to aid coal production in…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Queensland miners would stop work one day every week unless their demands for better conditions were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Coal Mining Co.'s Loss
A loss of £1543/0/7 for the half-year ended December 31 was reported to the annual meeting of The Newcastle Coal Mining Co…
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With the exception of Millfield in the North, all mines in the State worked yesterday for a production of nearly 56,000 tons of coal…
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Because miners will work on Monday, an interdistrict cricket match at Maitland has been abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Mines Idle Monday Staff Pay Claim Refused
A decision by Cessnock field colliery staffs not to work on Monday—the Australia Day holiday—will cut the State's coal output for the day by about 21,000 tons…
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SYDNEY: Despite threats by railwaymen and members of the Colliery Staffs Association not to work on Monday, the Joint Coal Board hopes to win high coal output for the day…
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The Northern Miners' Executive last night instructed branch members of the federation to work the Australia Day holiday shift to-day…
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Seven northern mines were idle and two partly manned for a coal loss of 6410 tons today. With the exception of one pit the idle mines were on the Cessnock field, where the colliery staffs did not work owing…
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Coal production was near peak level on the northern field today, only three mines being idle, for a loss of 1200 tons. At 6 a.m. railway guards resumed work at Port Waratah, after a 30-hour stoppage, and coal…
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Horace Marks, 45, miner of Marks-parade, Marks Point, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg when he was hit by a fall of…
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Emanuel Micallef, 17, of Main-road, Catherine Hill Bay, had his fingers crushed when his right hand was caught between the buffers of…
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