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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1952

1,300 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 65

"Victoria Soon Won't Need N.S.W. Coal"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 March 1952 · page 3

In a few years, with the exception of its railways, Victoria would be independent of N.S.W. coal…

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Colliery Tennis

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 4

Finals of the Cessnock collieries' tennis competition will be decided tomorrow night on the Aberdare…

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Coal Output Improves

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 5

Coal production on the northern N.S.W. field improved today with a loss, due to stoppages, of only…

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Mystery Injury In State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 8

LITHGOW, Wednesday.— "Sonny" Hogan, a horse breaker, at the State mine, was found wandering…

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Victoria Steps Up Coal Stockpile

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —Victoria has built up its biggest coal stockpile since February, 1951…

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Brown Coal Big Rival to Black

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 4

Development of brown coal mining at Yallourn, Victoria, was a warning that persistent strikes and absenteeism on New South Wales coalfields would lose…

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Coal "Up 50 p.c. In Winter"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 2

HOUSEHOLDERS will pay more than 50 per cent. more for their coal next winter than they did…

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New Coal Route

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 1

THE Secretary for Railways (Mr. Anderson) has listed the following proposed new lines.—…

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Gold—For The Picking

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Another gold nugget has been found in Wedderburn township…

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Association Concerned At Mining Crack

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 3

Further extension of a crack that had developed at Garden Suburb from mining operations would endanger a Railways…

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Coal Shipment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1952 · page 3

A total of 73,900 tons of coal was shipped from Newcastle to interstate ports and Sydney during the week…

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Claim On Coal Need 'Off Beam'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A statement by Mr. B. A. Helmore that "soon Victoria would need black coal for…

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Govts. Invited To Coal Case

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today adjourned a log of claims by the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association to allow…

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Letters To the Editor. Mine Pensioners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

QUITE correctly, much criticism has been levelled at pensioners working full time. I know where pensioners have…

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Coal for Irish

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 4

DUBLIN: Great Britain will this year send to Ireland 1,570,000 tons of coal —the full quantity…

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Complaint Over Coal Dust

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 3

South Lambton Progress Association members will have samples of black dust from window sills of their homes…

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Victoria To Get More Indian Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Victoria has been granted import licences for nine shipments of Indian coal to cost…

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Richmond Main's First Coal Produced Since March 3

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 6

Richmond Main Colliery worked today for the first time since March 3. Miners, who had been on strike because of a dispute…

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Miners Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 5

George Billett, 18, Mount View-road, Cessnock, wheeler at Aberdare Extended colliery, had his left hand injured…

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Four Northern Mines Idle

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 1

Continued idleness of three mines on the northern coalfields today and a fresh stoppage at another…

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