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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1952

1,300 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 65

Mining Examination

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 3

Students doing Department of Mines courses had their practical examination in mine surveying at National Park,…

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Miners Back Move For Better Roads

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 6

Lake Macquarie Shire Council, representatives of the Miners' Federation, and Mr. J. B. Simpson, M.L.A.,…

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2 Mines Idle On Glen Davis Issue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 2

Richmond Main and Pelton collieries were idle yesterday in sympathy with the Glen Davis stay-in strikers…

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Two Northern Mines Idle

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 4

With only two mines reported idle today northern coal loss was 1720 tons. Stoppages occurred at…

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Coal in Rail Truck Burns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 2

Cook's Hill and Carrington brigades, on Saturday night, were called to coal alight in a truck at Carrington. The…

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Storms Cause Coal Pile-Up

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 9

Dislocation of shipping schedules because of the coastal gales has caused a recurrence of coal-congestion problems in the Carrington railway yards…

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Glen Davis Call To Stop Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Aggregate meetings are expected to be held on all New South Wales coalfields this week to protest against the closure of the Glen Davis…

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Big Coal Stop On Glen Davis

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 2

The Cen[?]al Council of the Miners' Federation has called aggregate meetings this week to discuss the Glen Davis issue. Meetings in the south…

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Mine On Farm

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 6

LONDON.—A 1800lb sea mine on a parachute dropped into a ploughed field at Green Lane Farm…

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Mines to Stop on Glen Davis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 3

All Northern district mines will be idle to-morrow for aggregate meetings to discuss the closure of Glen Davis shale oil plant. Meetings will be held on…

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Big New Locos For Coal Lift

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: The first two of 50 Garratt locomotives, which were unloaded in Sydney today, will be…

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Coal Board Call To Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Cochran) said to-night that he believed…

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Miners Meet

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

Northern mineworkers at aggregate meetings today carried with little opposition the recommendation…

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Hospital Coal Good

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 4

Inquiry into the quality of coal supplied to Wallsend Hospital had shown that comment made at the last meeting was…

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Miners' Pledge On Glen Davis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

Western mineworkers, at stopwork meetings yesterday, pledged themselves to fight the Commonwealth's decision to close Glen Davis shale oil plant…

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Strike May Ease Coal Congestion

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

With all collieries on the northern field idle today because of the miners' aggregate meetings, coal…

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Stops Costly to Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1952 · page 1

Stoppages over the closure of Glen Davis shale oil plant would cost mineworkers in New South Wales more than £300,000 in wages, attendance allowances and long service leave benefits, a coal authority said in Sydney yesterday…

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Coal Loss In North Down

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1952 · page 3

Three idle mines caused a coal loss of 1200 tons in the North yesterday. They were Bloomfield New…

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Coal Cargo Sent Back In Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's ship, Arakoon, left Maclcay River…

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Coal Incentives For Discussion

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 June 1952 · page 5

The northern miners' lodge delegate conference to discuss payment of incentives and overtime will…

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