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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1954

1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 66

Floating Mine Off Queensland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The floating mine reported off the coast of Queensland to-day would probably ground…

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14 Mines Idle On Margins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 4

Fourteen mines were idle yesterday on the margins claim issue. The coal production loss…

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Stowage In Mines Owners' View Is Criticised

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: The central executive of the Miners' Federation announced today that it viewed "with disquiet" a reported statement by the chairman of the Colliery Proprietors'…

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One Mine Idle in North

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 8

The only mine idle in the North yesterday was Muswell-brook No. 3. which was also idle on Tuesday…

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All Northern Mines At Work

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 12

Muswellbrook open cut, the only mine on the northern coalfields idle yesterday, resumed…

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Nominations For Miners' Federation Close

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 3

Nominations for the position of general president and general secretary of the Miners' Federation will close next Tuesday. The federation will have a new general president…

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Coal Used To Knock Engineer Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 11

A Chinese seaman who hit a ship's engineer on the head with a piece of coal was fined £10 by Mr. R. A…

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Editorial— a Time For Tolerance In The Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 September 1954 · page 18

NEXT WEEK, in the words of the chairman of the Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. E. E. Warren), the N.S.W. coal industry will enter a new…

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Miners' Officials Confer on Extraction of Pillar Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 3

Miners' central and northern district officials and check inspectors are conferring in Newcastle today on mine owners' proposals to begin mechanical…

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Stoppages In Mines 'Fewer'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Fewer stoppages had occurred in the New South Wales coalmining industry in the past five years…

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Coal Cargo for Korea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 10

The Japanese freighter Asakirisan Maru is due in Newcastle on Monday to load 8700 tons of coal for Korea…

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Two Miners Hurt At Cessnock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 5

William Collins. 53, of Chapman-street, Cessnock, miner at Aberdare Extended colliery, was struck by falling…

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More Coal For South Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 1

South Australia is prepared to take 24,000 tons of New South Wales coal a week for the remainder of this year, compared with 17,000 tons previously…

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Man Killed In State Mine Shaft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY. — A man was killed and eight others injured — two seriously — in a disastrous mine collapse…

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Won Her Weight In Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1954 · page 20

NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A.A.P.—There was a day when Miss Mary McCrea worried—just a…

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Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 8

WITH Ampol's Rough Range No. 1 well clear at last more interesting reports may be expected in the near future…

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All Northern Mines Worked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 2

All mines worked in the North yesterday for the second successive day. In the South all mines also…

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Two Miners Hurt By Props

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 6

Keith Goodwin, 40, of Mount Pleasant-street, Maitland, miner at Aberdare colliery, suffered a probable…

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Man Killed in State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A miner was killed and four others injured under a fall of two tons of rubble at Oakdale State Mine, Burragorang Valley, to-day…

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Coal Pillars In The Making

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1954 · page 4

Sketch shows pillars being formed in a mine by machines which will ultimately remove them…

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