"Suspicion" By Coal Authority Baulk Pays Condemned
Mr. M. Lydon said yesterday that he viewed with grave suspicion a practice at Bellbird colliery of paying miners consideration money for erecting baulks…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Vast New Field For Coal
IRON RIVER (Michigan), May 23, A.A.P. — High quality hard coal that may be more than 500 million years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production Near Peak Today
Production on the northern coalfields today was only 200 tons below the peak level. The only mine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners And The Coal Surplus
The attention being given by the Northern district of the Miners' Federation to the coal industry's economic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Coal Output High
All Northern mines worked yesterday but production was down at Aberdare Extended and Stockrington No. 1, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Still Difficult To Shift
Considerable difficulty is still being experienced in finding immediate markets for small coal mined on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The Newcastle Sun" Letter Box Coal Surplus
Unless a market can be found at once for the thousands of tons of stacked coal a serious crisis must…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pile-Up Of Coal Worsens
The coal accumulation problem in Newcastle is becoming more acute this week,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2500-Ton Loss Of Gas Coal
There was full production on the Newcastle coalfield yesterday, but production was down about 2500 tons on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Closures Feared Union Requests Job Talks
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The Miners' Federation has asked the Chairman of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. E. Warren) to confer with it on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Dies At Mine When Arm Caught In Machine
Oxy-acetylene torches were used to cut away the roller frame of the conveyor belt in which a man was jammed at Mt. Sugarloaf Colliery, near West Wallsend, today, but he was dead when released. The man was Hugh…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Killed At Colliery
A man was found dead at Mount Sugarloaf colliery. West Wallsend, yesterday with his right Arm caught between a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cameraman Dies in Mine Blast
HANOI, May 26. A.A.P.—Robert Capa, Hungarian-born American photographer, was killed in a land mine explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plan to Settle Mines Dispute
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An attempt to settle differences between the Miners' Federation and the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Coal Dumped In North
Coal was dumped on the South Maitland and Newcastle fields yesterday. High production on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →102 U.k. Miners Killed
LONDON, May 27. A.A.P. —One hundred and two miners were killed in British pits in the first quarter of this year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Mines in State Worked
All mines in the State worked yesterday, but there was a coal production loss of about 800 tons in the north through…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Unshipped Coal Still Piling Up
The northern coalfields finished the working week with another near-peak production day today, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rich Result In Gold Find Report
PERTH, Thursday. — News of a rich result of milling of a parcel of 21 tons of ore from Messrs. Grace, Teale and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jobs Of Hundreds Threatened As Coal Crisis Grows
The problem of over-production and declining markets for New South Wales coal is gradually building to a crisis which threatens the prosperity of at least some coalfields towns, the jobs of hundreds of mineworkers and the continued existence of many small mines…
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