Two Strikes On Mine Blast Probe
BRISBANE.—More than 500 waterside workers and miners stopped work at Scottville, Collinsville,…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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U.K. In Coal, Steel Plan
LONDON, Dec. 12. A.A.P. —The treaty of association between Britain and the European coal and steel community…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Bell Gold Mine To Close
PERTH.—The Big Bell Mine, which has produced about £9-million worth of gold since it was opened…
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Strikes at three northern collieries today caused a production loss of nearly 4000 tons of coal…
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The oversea freighter Timenteng yesterday morning began to load 8500 tons of coal for Korea—the second last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Entitled To Marginal Increases
SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today ruled that all mining unions were entitled to marginal increases on wages based on the Commonwealth Full Arbitration Court's metal trades' award decision…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Talks On Future Of Bellbird Mine
In Sydney tomorrow, miners' leaders will confer with the N.S.W. Mines Minister (Mr. Gollan) on the future of Bellbird Colliery where a creep has caused a huge loss of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Get Wage Lift
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Mineworkers will receive marginal increases ranging from 7½ per cent. to 2½ per cent. from next month under a judgment of the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2 New Mine Disputes
Disputes at two mines in the North yesterday caused them to work partly manned. There was no change in the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Neilly, M.L.C.) expressed dissatisfaction to-day with the decision of the Coal Industry Tribunal on marginal increases for mineworkers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Uncertainty Over Effect of Miners' Margins Case
SYDNEY: Although the Joint Coal Board and mineowners have warned that increased coal prices will follow the increased margins granted to miners yesterday, big consumers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fears On Coal Discounted
This year was a disppointing one for the critics—for those who, pointing to coal's difficulties, predicted early in 1954 that the industry was headed for disaster. Events have proved this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collinsville Inquiry Mine Safety Report
BOWEN, Thursday. — A mine foreman said to-day he did not think it would be possible to devise a system to protect miners against a gas outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quieter Year For Northern Miners
From the viewpoint of industrial relations, 1954 on the Northern coalfields has been comparatively quiet. Still the Local Coal Authority (Mr. M.Lydon) has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rise in Coal Price Likely in February
SYDNEY, Thursday. — A general increase in the price of coal is likely in February. The increase will follow a general application to be lodged by colliery proprietors early in the new year…
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NORTHERN Hercules N.L. has reconditioned the main shaft to 90 feet and completed the headframe…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Output Kept Up
The current high rate of coal production as miners near their annual Christmas break was maintained on the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Aim For More Output
The Superintendent of Caledonian Collieries Ltd. (MR. J. Bowdler) said at Cessnock last night that he hoped the production of the company's collieries, which amounted to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Board Grant To Blackalls
Blackalls Progress Association has received a grant of £300 from the Joint Coal Board for improvements to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boom Created In Coal Washing
An increasingly competitive fuel market has produced an important side-effect—a boom in the coal washing business. "Coal washing"—a…
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