Mine Locomotive Manning Talks
A meeting of the Central Coal Reference Board will be held on Monday to discuss the manning of locomotives at Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1951
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Lambton Colliery Likely To Resume Work On
Lambton Colliery, which has been idle all this week, is expected to resume work on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barrington Gold "Hard To Find"
A Newcastle optician, who is also somewhat of an expert on gold mining, says: "There's gold in the Harrington Hills—but it will take more than a pick and shovel to find it."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greta Mining Talks Deferred
A meeting, to have been held at Greta to-morrow, to consider proposed mining extensions in the area his been postponed till 10 a.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Output Ahead Of Last Year
New South Wales coalminers this week passed their output for the corresponding period last year. Production of 270,000 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Legal Action May Be Taken on Blasting at Open-cut Mine
Residents of East Cessnock and Aberdare may take legal action to prevent severe blasting operations at the Caledon open-cut mine. The open-cut is alongside the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Idle Because No Explosives
At least three mines would not work to-day because they had no explosives, the miners' Northern President (Mr. G. Neilly) said last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Working Day At North's Mines
Only one mine on the northern coalfields was idle today because of a dispute. The field had one of its best working days of the year. The mine where the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reporter Seeks Gold At Barrington Tops
Yesterday I looked for gold at Barrington Tops. I was a member of a party of seven which returned to a small winding creek, deep in the cleft of hills, to pan for alluvial gold they first discovered a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →1150-Ton Coal Loss Through Strikes
Strikes caused a production loss of about 1150 tons of coal on the Northern coalfields yesterday. The shortage of explosives resulted in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosives Due at Pits Tonights; Miners Not to Be Laid Off
Consignments of explosives are scheduled to arrive tonight at some northern collieries where dwindling stocks have threatened coal production. The explosives, which are be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold And Silver
The Ernest Bakers—two couples celebrated important wedding anniversaries together last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pillar Coal Rate Claim
Witnesses for the Miners' Federation said before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) in Newcastle yesterday that the lowest rate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Top Coal Rate Application
The hearing of an application for an increase in the rate for top coal was continued in Newcastle today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Pension Increase Delay Criticised
The Northern branch of the Retired Mineworkers' Delegate Board at its monthly meeting criticised the delay in having superannuation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosives By Road To Mines
Mines short of explosives were getting supplies last night, and no hold-ups are expected to-day. Notices of termination of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Heating Loss Reports "Exaggerated"
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Reports that thousands of tons of coal were being lost by heating in a dump at Newdell colliery, near Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →4000-Ton Coal Loss In North
The coal production Toss in the North yesterday was about 4000 tons. but about half this was the result of the idleness of a big…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ton Of Coal Won For Old People
THE Newcastle Quota Club coal competition was won with a ticket purchased for the Benevolent Society and the ton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Explosives At Mines, But 3 Pits Have No Supplies
Emergency supplies of explosives reached at least six mines on the northern coalfields by lorry in the early hours of this morning, but three other small collieries were unable to work today's shift because their supplies were exhausted…
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