Coal Loaded After Heating Dispute
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A start was made to-day to load 4600 tons of Callide coal in the freighter Dundula, at Gladstone. The coal…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Industry Faces A Crisis With 100 Mines Idle
With miners at more than 100 pits idle, N.S.W. today lost 43,000 tons of its potential daily output of 60,000 tons of black coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Instructed To Meet To-day As Award Protest
The miners' General President (Mr. Williams) said in Sydney last night that the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation had called pit-top meetings at all New South Wales mines to-day to discuss the new award…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →B.H.P. Warns Of Grave Coal Position
A CONTINUED idleness of B.H.P. mines could quickly create a serious position that would affect the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Office Fire Investigated
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Arson Squad detectives reached Lithgow to-night to investigate fire in the office of Newcom colliery,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrorists Derail Colliery Train
SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Seventy terrorists attacked and derailed a colliery tram at Rawang, near Kuala Lumpur…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners And Their Tribunal
The almost 100 per cent. halt to coal production in New South Wales yesterday must have been gratifying to the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Were Confused On Meetings
There was confusion on the coalfields yesterday over the pit-top meetings. Many miners complained that the only intimation they had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Year's First Coal For Melbourne
The William McArthur left Newcastle yesterday with the first interstate coal shipment since the resumption of work in the mines after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manager Fined On Gold Count
DARWIN, Wednesday.—George Frederick Woolcock, manager of the Department of Works and Housing workshops near Darwin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canal Damage May Cause Coal Loss
Unless immediate repairs are made to the Wailsend stormwater channel, a daily coal loss of 1000 tons from the Cardiff mines is expected. Last night a break in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Gaoled for Having Gold Bars
PERTH, Wednesday.—Chinese grocer, Chin Shing, was sentenced to-day to 12 months' gaol and fined £200 for having been in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Production Better, But Industrial Position Insecure
All but 17 of N.S.W. coal mines worked today. The flow to industries, powerhouses, gas companies and transport bodies of coal from the day's output will bring some relief in the fuel crisis but the overall position remains insecure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain Responsible for More Heavy Coal Losses in Northern Mines
Heavy rain over the whole of the northern coalfields area today threw many mines idle, adding seriously to the week's disastrous coal losses. Railway connections to some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →9370-Ton Coal Loss
The New South Wales coal production loss yesterday was 9370 tons, according to a Joint Coal Board estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →India's 'Mining Primitive'
BOMBAY.—Indian mining experts are complaining that India's exports of manganese, essential for hardening steel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Domestic Coal Price Rises 4d Bag
The Joint Coal Board had raised the retai price of household coal from 3/9 to 4/1 a bag, the President of Newcastle Fuel Merchants'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Movement of Coal Dislocated by Water on Lines to Mines
With the South Maitland Railways line from Maitland to Cessnock out of operation, the movement of coal from the Cessnock field has been dislocated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Losses
Northern coal production was down 8000 tons yesterday because of wet weather. Four open cuts and seven mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Up 2d
The retail price of coal had risen from 3/11 to 4/1 a bag. and not from 3/9, as stated in the "Newcastle Morning Herald"…
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