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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Salt Mine Under City

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 10

Far below the busy streets of Detroit, miners remove more than 4000, tons of salt every day from a huge air-conditioned mine. The mine has…

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Amateur Gold Fossickers

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 March 1951 · page 1

Some Narrabri residents hit upon a diversion for their Easter break—they went gold mining "in the hills." Although it is supposed no gold is to…

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Protest Meetings; Further Coal Losses SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 April 1951 · page 1

Engine drivers and firemen held stop-work meetings today, throwing idle 53 southern and western coal mines…

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Moderates Oppose Coal Stoppage SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 1

Moderates will strongly oppose the Left Wing move to hold stop-work meetings on northern coalfields tomorrow to protest…

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Miners and Watersiders' Threaten Industrial Turmoil SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 1

An important Trade Union conference being held this week will decide whether shipping and industry will be disrupted by strikes. Vital meetings of the Miners' Central Council are…

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Hope Abandoned for Entombed Miners LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 31 May 1951 · page 1

Hope was officially abandoned last night for sixty miners entombed by an explosion in Essington colliery at Durham early on Tuesday morning. A revised casualty list issued last night gave known…

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Protest Stoppage By Miners SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 1

Western miners stopped work today in protest against the closure of Glen Davis but, other workers in the district ignored…

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U.k. Miners Work Extra Shift

The North Western Courier · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 2

An extra 6.3 million tons of coal were produced from U.K. mines during the first 22 weeks of this year as the result of miners working…

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Pavements Bring in Gold

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 8

When Louis XIV and Napoleon laid out the wide and treelined boulevards of Paris they "builded them better than they knew." Those streets…

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Coal Vending Machine

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 2

A new coal vending machine developed in the United States automatically dispenses sacks of coal to individual customers…

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Miners Work Despite Call for Meetings Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 October 1951 · page 1

Twenty-four of 35 mines in Western N.S.W. worked today despite pit[?] meetings which had been called [?] Protest against the Budget and…

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Record Coal Production Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 10 December 1951 · page 1

By overtaking last year's coal yield of 12,797,200, tons N.S.W. coal miners today established a production…

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