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

Mining & the mines, 1952

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Europes Oldest Coal Mine

The North Western Courier · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 5

What is probably Europe's oldest coal mine is at Kerkrade. near Heerlen in the Netherlands, where the monks…

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No Mines Idle SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

No mines in N.S.W. were idle today, the first working day after three weeks'…

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New Coal Mining Technique New York

The North Western Courier · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

A new coal mining technique, called "coal augering" has been developed by an American company. It takes…

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7700 Tons Coal Loss From Northern Strike Newcastle

The North Western Courier · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 1

Nine Northern mines today struck in sympathy with Richmond Main colliery, which has been idle since March 3. Loss of production was 7700 tons…

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Mine Owner's Offer

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 1

As soon as the actual site of Gunnedah's Olympic Pool is surveyed and pegged, excavation work…

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Farmers Want Money Miners Want Money

Manilla Express · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 4

The Bathurst "National Advocate (a Labor organ) says: Mr. K. H. Nock, treasurer of the Farmers and Settlers', is…

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In Canberra To-day Australia's New Atomic Gold

Manilla Express · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 4

Uranium the new atomic gold may move Australia's industrial nerve centres from East to South and Central…

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Coal Output Increased by Million Tons

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 10

New South Wales miners have produced more than one million tons more coal this year than for the…

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Leads with Gold

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 7

Victoria mined the most gold in Australia in the 100 years from 1851 to 1951—73, 257,000 fine ounces…

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Holland Makes Synthetic Coal

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 8

After many years of elaborate research and experiment natural scientists in the Dutch state coal mines believe that…

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Old Cornwall Mines May be Re-opened

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 8

The "ghost towns" and abandoned mines of Cornwall may hum with activity again if Britain, faced with a…

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Western Miners Go Back to Work Lithgow

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 1

An western mines resumed work today. They were ordered to [?] turn to work by the Miners'…

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Mine Strikers Still "Stay-in". Lithgow

The North Western Courier · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 1

The 52 "stay-in" strikers in the Glen Davis shale oil mine [?]e not even considered the possibility of returning to the…

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Coal Output Up SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 July 1952 · page 1

Coal production for the first six months of 1952 rose by 22 per cent. when compared with the…

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U.s. Coal Exports

The North Western Courier · Monday 28 July 1952 · page 4

For the third time in four months, Britain has raised her coal export target. The new figure will be 12.5…

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Gold in Sea

The North Western Courier · Monday 4 August 1952 · page 6

The sea contains from 5 to 276 parts of gold per million parts of water…

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Coal Miners Idle Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 September 1952 · page 1

Twenty-six mines were idle in New South Wales today for the loss of 10,600 tons…

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Device to Detect Gold

The North Western Courier · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 4

An electronic device, known as a metal detector, has been designed and constructed in the National Physical…

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Mines May Close Sydney, Monday

The North Western Courier · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 1

A recommendation by the Joint Coal Board that a number of N.S. W. mines be closed,…

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Mrs. Atlee Goes Down Mine

Manilla Express · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 4

During her tour of Northern Rhodesia, Mrs. Atlee, wife of Mr. Clement Atlee, the leader of the Opposition in Britain's Parliament, had her first experience of going down a mine when she visited the Nkana Copper Mine…

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