3000 Tons Coal Lost Over 3 Mine Deaths
The coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 5000 tons. About 3000 tons were lost when miners ceased work after…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Coal Shipments
Coal shipments from Newcastle to interstate ports and Sydney were again low this week. A total of 54,200 tons of coal…
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Dick Stanwell, 23, of Quorrobolong-street, Cessnock, a surveyor at Bellbird colliery, was caught between skips yesterday and suffered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Widows Awarded £1000
SYDNEY, Friday.âThe Workers' Compensation Court to-day awarded £1000 each to two widows of miners who were killed by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Open-cut Fire Menaces Big Coal Deposits
Men are working double shifts and around the clock in an effort to save hundreds of thousands of tons of gas coal at Cessnock No. 2 open cut, which is on fire…
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The manager of Cessnock No. 2 open-cut mine (Mr. Wilson Barrett) denied today that burning coal in the open cut was a danger to thousands of tons of unworked coal adjoining the cut…
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The fight against the Cessnock No. 2 open-cut mine is continuing. The seat of the fire is in an old…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Premier (Mr. McDonald) to-day accused the Join Coal Board at penalising Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ward Mine Insurance To Continue
Birmingham Gardens Progress Association will protest to the Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) and to Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A. against notices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners To Discuss Machine Problems
Delegates from all miners' lodges on the northern coalfields will hold a conference at Federation House, Newcastle, on Wednesday, to discuss mechanisation problems…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loco Driver Hurt In Mine Accident
Leslie Nott, 25, of Gomera St., Blacksmiths, a loco driver at John Darling Colliery, was admitted to the Mater…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£6000 for Coal Point Home
A weatherboard house, boatshed and outbuildings at Coal Point, Toronto, were sold by auction on Saturday to Mr. Joseph Abrahams…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1700-Ton Coal Output Loss
The coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 1700 tons. Belmont North and No. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Stay at Work to Aid Widow
Members of John Darling miners' lodge did not follow the usual practice yesterday when they remained at work and will give 10/…
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About 60 miners' lodges will each send a representative to Newcastle to-morrow for a conference on mechanisation…
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SYDNEY: An inspection of a new State coal mine at Oakdale in Burragorang Valley will be made next Friday by a State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Retired Miners Hold Picnic
In the nine years of its existence, Swansea-Belmont retired mineworkers' branch held its first social function today—a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One Northern Mine Idle
Only one mine on the northern coalfields was reported to be idle when today's shift began…
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More than 60 miners' lodges were represented at a delegate conference in Newcastle today, called to discuss problems…
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The miners' Northern Management Board yesterday changed the rule dealing with calling lodge delegate conferences…
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