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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,748 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 88
Only three of the four B.H.P. mines on the northern coalfields worked today. Men at the fourth, Lambton Colliery, went underground late but returned to the surface again at 9 a.m. and the pit produced no coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE: Two Wedderburn men are racing to reach a reef of gold which they believe runs under a Wedderburn street and will bring them a fortune. They are Messrs. Albert Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day granted the Miners' Federation leave to amend its log of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The threat to the jobs of thousands of Newcastle steel workers was lifted yesterday morning when work was resumed at Burwood, John Darling and Stockton Borehole collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE: Gold fever is mounting in Wedderburn as scores of prospectors and fossickers invade Victoria's newest "gold rush" town. Last night, after the second…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Monday.—Gold production in Australia last year was the highest since 1942, the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WASHINGTON, Mon. (AAP)—The U.S. Government today asked the Court of Appeal to hold the United Mineworkers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The N.S.W. Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association has begun production on a monthly magazine for coalfield families…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY: Copies of the Miners' Federation paper "Common Cause," which it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHANNESBURG, March 21. A.A.P.—South Africa would ship 300,000 tons of coal to Australia in the next six months, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Progress in the construction of bowling greens throughout (he Lake Shire is considered unsatisfactory by the Joint Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—An Adelaide jeweller is alleged to have been defrauded of £2300 to-day. He paid the money to two men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every time a funeral moved to Catherine Hill Bay Cemetery, the cortege had to pay 1/ to cross the Wallarah Coal Company's railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE: Prospectors on Wedderburn's gold field last night took possession of the main street and by lantern light started digging 50 claims and pegging out more. Claims are staked in a way…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With all four B.H.P. pits at work again today, prospects were brighter for full restoration of operations at Newcastle Steel Works to pre-crisis levels. Steelworkers, who temporarily…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MINING DISASTER: This picture shows the funeral of the victims of the tragic Stockton Colliery disaster of December, 1896, passing through the railway gates at Market St. Nine lives were lost, including five members of the rescue party, who perished in an attempt to save their mates…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Two widows whose husbands were asphyxiated in Millfield mine on November 16 last year, were each awarded compensation at the sitting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The production of oil from coal would not be a practicable proposition in Australia for several years, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY.—Coal losses from miners' strikes at 10 northern mines for an eight-week period this year were more than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first issue of "The Coal Miner," a monthly magazine for mineworkers and their families, has been published by the New South…
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