Mines Check Impracticable
The City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) told the council Works Committee last night that an inspector of the Mines…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Coal-Oil Factories "Future Need"
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — An important plan for the future could be the establishment of factories to turn coal into synthetic oil, Professor J. P. Baxter said to-day. The factories would be…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. — There was no question of sacrificing any plant owned by the Joint Coal Board either in…
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The Northern Miners' Check Inspector (Mr. J. Barrett), who returned from Queensland yesterday, said…
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SYDNEY: Because beach mining was the third largest mineral producing source in the Slate, the Mines Department would insist on companies working their areas to the full, the Mines Minister (Mr. Gollan) said today…
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CANBERRA.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said yesterday that a bill providing for subsidies for the…
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SYDNEY. — The New South Wales Minister for Mines (Mr. Gollan) said today. he would ask the…
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BRISBANE. Wednesday.— The Chief Mines Inspector (Mr. T. M. Platt) said in a report on the Collinsville mine…
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OSLO. — A young Norwegian, 25-year-old Jac Jacobsen. left Grimstad, South Norway. to go…
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Miners at Northern Extended Colliery resumed work today after more than a month's idleness…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dutch Bid To Sal vage £7m. German gold
THE HAGUE, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Experts hope to salvage a £7-million gold hoard aboard a German ship torpedoed in 1917. A gigantic caisson is ready to be towed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Oil From Coal Favoured
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Geologists were not very optimistic of finding oil in Australia. Extraction of oil from…
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Three mines were idle in the North yesterday for a coal production loss of about 600 tons…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—The rail truck situation on the N.S.W. coalfields was reaching drastic proportions, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Editorial a Scientist Speaks Up For Coal
ON A CUE given by one of Australia's leading physicists, the Minister for Mines has announced his intention of asking the Joint Coal Board to convene a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fed. Govt. Aid Sought For Dead Miners' Families
Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night demanded that the Federal Government make adequate…
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BULULO Gold Dredging Ltd. is paying a 50 per cent. dividend, subject to Canadian non-resident tax of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Accidents
Two colliery workers were injured at Northern pits today. John oFtheringham, 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Output Still High
Northern coal production continued at a high level today. Only two mines were out…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Miners Work On Top Of Huge Gas 'Bomb'
BRISBANE: Miners clearing 500 tons of coal in the Collinsville State Mine where a gas eruption killed seven men 13 days ago are working on top of a "huge bomb."…
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