State Mine Plan "Secondary"
Two miners' leaders told Cessnock Municipal Council last night that need for a State mine in the area was secondary. The men, Messrs. H. Cockerill…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Five Northern Mines Idle
Stockrington No. 2 Miners' Lodge returned home this morning when two unionists from Sydney were refused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Price For Mine Shares
SYDNEY.—Placer Development shares jumped to a record price of £16 6s on the Stock Exchange today—a rise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Report Now "Being Examined"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Mines Department and the Joint Coal Board were examining the Coal Conservation Committee's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plan To Boost Coal Output
MELBOURNE.—A plan to boost Australian coal production has been evolved by Federal Director of Defence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gas Coal Wastage Is Urgent Problem
Officials of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation and the Board of Management have good reason to be impatient…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Mines Back To Work To-day
Four big mines which were idle in the North yesterday are expected to be back in production to-day. The production loss yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Firm to Pay Dividend Arrears
The Directors of Caledonian Collieries Ltd. have announced a dividend on cumulative preference capital of 2½ per cent., being arrears…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Millfield Mine Closure Move
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board will confer to-morrow with representatives of the Northern Miners' Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prefab. Homes For Miners
SYDNEY.—Special orders of prefabricated homes for coalminers were announced today by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Feathers On Gold Felt
Curling pheasant feathers convey seasonable tints and give a ram's horn effect to this gold felt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Manpower Key To Coal Shortage
SYDNEY Thursday.—The tendency was to overlook the fact that coal was short because there were not enough workers in the industry,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Loss Yesterday 6500 Tons
The coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 6500 tons. Six mines were idle. Among the idle mines was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Shortage; Miners' View
SYDNEY, Friday.—Reasons given by Senator Spooner yesterday for the coal shortage was what the Miners' Federation had been trying to tell the public for five years, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lectures on Coal Mining Pillar Methods "Unscientific"
SYDNEY, Friday.—Two lecturers at Sydney University to-night described the method of fixing the size of pillars in all Crown coal leases in New South Wales as most unscientific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Dismissals; Talks Fail
SYDNEY, Friday.—Parties in the Steel Works colliery dismissals case conferred privately for nearly an hour to-day, but did not reach…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deaths in Mines
LONDON.—Deaths in British coal mines last year totalled 493, an increase of 33 on 1949. The Creswell and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Board Withholds Approval For Mine Closure
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board decided to-day to withhold approval for the closure of Millfield colliery for a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →9 Pits Idle, 6500-Ton Coal Loss
The coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 6500 tons, due to the idleness of nine mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Pits Idle On Machine-Cut Coal
Burwood and Stockrington Nos. 1 and 2 mines took joint action today in protest against the Coal Industry Tribunal's delay in announcing a decision on claims for machine-cut coal…
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