Coal Output In North High
Coal production was down only 2300 tons in the North yesterday. Pelton was still on strike and Richmond Main idle because…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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The Letter Box Coal, Wool Arches
The Coal Board should erect three or four coal arches in Hunter St., similar to those erected at the centenary of…
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Burwood, the largest producer, and Swansea, one of the smallest, were the only mines idle in the north yesterday. The production…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—There was a potential coal market of 15 million tons a year in the Pacific, the Premier of Queensland (Mr…
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LONDON, April 12.—Russia is designing an atomic mine and also has an improved version of a German mine of World War II which…
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The directors of J. and A. Brown and Abermain-Seaham Collieries Ltd. declared an interim dividend, payment on May 10…
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Coal shipments from Newcastle to Sydney and interstate ports this week totalled 69,100 tons. Sydney received 30,000 tons,…
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Any modification of the mine subsidence scheme in the proposed amendment to the Mine Subsidence Act would allow ratepayers of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—New South Wales coal production to March 24 was 398,088 tone below production for the first quarter of last year…
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No coal was loaded in Newcastle yesterday because cranedrivers held their annual picnic at Speers Point. Coal loading will resume this…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Aggregate meetings of coalminers in Queensland to-day decided against proposed one-day stoppages over the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— The attendance allowance order for miners had reduced absence from illness at the State coalmine at Wonthaggi,…
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Coal production from the northern field improved today with the resumption of the B.H.P's. two big collieries, Burwood and John Darling, but stoppages at other mines caused a loss of 3500 tons…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Some doctors' certificates for miners claiming sick pay were not worth the paper they were written on, the…
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LITHGOW: The General Secretary of the Federated Mine Mechanics' Association (Mr. W. Crane) said yesterday…
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Strikes at mines in the North cost a coal production loss of about 3740 tons yesterday. The position was—…
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SYDNEY: During the short period it was in operation the attendance clause in the miners' wage award had considerably reduced absenteeism, the Wonthaggi Victorian State Mine representative (Mr. C. Evans) told the Coal Industry Tribunal today…
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About 3000 tons of coal was lost by strikes in the North yesterday. Three mines were idle and a…
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PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Six nations signed the Schuman Treaty yesterday, merging their coal and steel resources in a vast European pool. The Foreign Ministers of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Production Increasing
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Australia's gold output is steadily increasing, though production is still far below prewar…
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