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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1952

1,300 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 65

Price Of Fox Gold Firms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 June 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A new fancied contender for the Doomben Ten Thousand, Fox Gold, is only a fifth of the price he was before his impressive win in the…

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Big Increase In Open-Cut Coal Over Last Year

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 June 1952 · page 6

Production from N.S.W. open-cut coal mines to May 31 was nearly 360,000 tons greater than the output for a similar period last year. Figures released by the…

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Stole Miners' Clothes

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 2

At Cessnock Court today a man was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on each of two charges of…

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2 Miners Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 4

Frank Wilson, 35, of Allandale-street, Kearsley, a miner employed at Abedare colliery, was struck by a fall of coal…

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All Mines At Work In State

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 2

All mines in the State worked yesterday and coal production was at peak level. It was not the first time…

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Rhodesian Gold Output Lowest for 45 Years

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

BULAWAYO: Position of gold mining in Rhodesia still gave cause for a great deal of anxiety, if not…

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Coal Congestion At Carrington

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 4

With coal exports to southern States down heavily this week because of shortage of ships, coal congestion in the Carrington and Port Waratah railway yard is again building up…

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Coal Useless At Glen Davis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

GLEN DAVIS, Tuesday.—The Secretary of the Glen Davis Miners' Lodge (Mr. J. Hall), said to-night that 2500…

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Ship Shortage "Chronic" Coal Banks Up at Cranes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

A shortage of shipping is likely to cause congestion of coal waggons at Port Waratash marshalling yards to-day and to-morrow. A spokesman for the Joint…

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Coal Output Below Demand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 2

Senator Spooner's statement that the coal problem has become a matter of transport rather than production…

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Accent Now on Moving of Coal Hewn, Says Minister

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 June 1952 · page 3

The emphasis was changing from coal production to coal transport, said the Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner) in Newcastle today…

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Miners Curb Overtime

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 1

A restriction on overtime and acceptance of incentive payments was imposed yesterday by a conference of Northern miners' district lodge delegates…

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Coal From Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 1

MR. BORIS Cherniayeff, fish store employee, of Stockton, who gets his coal from an undersea "mine,"…

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Coal Chiefs Meet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 3

The Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner), right, who inspected coal handling facilities in Newcastle yesterday, chats with the Newcastle District Engineer of the Coal Board (Mr. S. Flowers), left, and the Coal Board (Mr. Cochran)…

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First Output by New Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The first consignment of marketable coal was discharged from the new Liddell mine, between…

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No Waggons For Two Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 2

Swansea open cut and Crofton mines were idle yesterday because of a shortage of empty waggons…

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Committee To Fix Coal Need

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 2

THE Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner) and the New South Wales…

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Coal Board Fours To Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 12

Mesdames Cann, Crisp, Spinks and Rodgers (Newcastle) at Torpey-place yesterday won the final of the Coal…

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Waggon Shortage Again Hits Coal Output

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 3

A shortage of empty waggons, caused by congestion in the Carrington and Port Waratah marshalling yards, again resulted in a loss of coal on the northern field today. Because it had no…

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Ball Frock From Sari, Gold Thread

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 5

At the Railway Ball in Newcastle City Hall last night, Mrs. L. B. Saddington, of Newcastle (centre) and Mrs…

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