Additional Holidays for Miners
SYDNEY, Thursday.— The Coal Industry Tribunal today awarded 13,000 miners in Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria and Tasmania additional…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
632 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 16 of 32
Newcastle Has No Coal
SYDNEY, Thursday.— A message stating that no coal was available for her at Newcastle caused the recall of the collier, Caldare, this…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A message stating that no coal was available for her at Newcastle caused the recall of the collier Caldare this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increase of British Holding of Gold
LONDON, Thursday: Britain's holding of gold and United States dollars increased during 1946 to about £650million or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Shortage May Cause Grim Winter
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Secretary of the Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association? (Mr. R. W. Davie) said to-night that the State Governments in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia would have…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The secretary of the Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr R. W. Davies) said tonight that the State Governments of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia would have to consider drastic power, gas and rail cuts this winter because coal supples would be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →B.h.p. Coal Stocks Compared
The above photograhps show the normal position and the present position of the coal stocks at the B.H.P. Steel Works. The bottom picture was taken when less than 5000 tons of coal was stored. The space permits the storage of 120,000 tons of coal—about four weeks' supply for the industry when operating normally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Breakdown in U.s. Coal Talks
WASHINGTON, Sunday: Negotiations between Mr. John I, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliery Dispute Settled
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The demarcation dispute which has held up production at Abermain Colliery since March 31 was settled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trains Derailed by Bomb and Mine
LONDON, Wednesday: The Associated Press correspondent in Jerusalem says: It is officially announced that a bomb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seeking Right to Build Railway for Coal Export
BRISBANE, Wednesday: An English company has made preliminary overtures to the State Government for the right to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Machine for Mines
More than 400 tons of coal a shift is the normal output from each Meco-Moore simultaneous cutter-loader now being installed in British coal mines. The machine, which is all-British, does away with shot firing in pits and cuts unbroken from…
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More than 400 tons of coal a shift is a normal output from each A.B. Meco-Moore simultaneous cutter-loader now being installed in British coal mines. An all British machine it does away with shot firing in pits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cut In Coal Supplies
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board today announced there would be a 20 per cent, cut in coal supplies from next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Killed in Mine Explosion
SYDNEY, Friday: A man was killed and another seriously injured in a mine explosion at Broker Hill today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports That Russians Are Mining Uranium
PRAGUE (A.P.): Information leaking through the sealed frontier, between Northern Bohemia and the Soviet-occupied zone of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Coal miner are to be given an incentive to work continuously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Cuts Anger Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Sunday— Adelaide residents, who for years have und[?]gone more household and industrial hold-ups through failure of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Cuts to Affect Industry
SYDNEY, Sunday.—When the 20 per[?]ent. cut in coal supplies operates from tomorrow it will have an adverse effect on industry…
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