2 Million Dollar Gold Theft
BANGKOK (Siam), Wednesday: Twenty, to 30 armed bandits today stole an international gold shipment,…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
521 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 27
In Brief 2M. Dollar Gold Theft
BANGKOK, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).--Twenty to 30 armed bandits today stole an international gold shipment valued at 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commonwealth Bank Profits by Gold Trade
SYDNEY, Tuesday: During the hearing of a gold smuggling case in the special Federal Court today it was suggested by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What's Wrong With the Coal Industry?
THOUGH NATURE, in its benevolence, has allocated [?] Australia a sufficiency of coal, the present generation of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Only Four Gold Mines To Need Subsidies
CANBERRA, Monday.--No more than three or four gold mines will need Government subsidies to carry on as part of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Questions Referred to Coal Board
SYDNEY, Monday: Decision was reserved today by the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. Gallagher, on the claim by the Miner's Federation for three months' long service leave for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatened New Coal Crisis in Nsw
SYDNEY, Tuesday: New South Wales is again facing a coal crisis because of a series of petty stoppages which have seriously hampered production over the past few months…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strict Coal Rationing Expected
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A heavy loss of nearly 15,000 tons of coal on the NSW coalfields today is expected to force the Joint Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of Former Miners' Leader
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mr. Charles Nelson, a former general president of the Miners' Federation died today at his farm at Wyong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Rationing to Industry Soon
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A heavy loss of coal of nearly 15,000 tons on N.S.W. coalfields today is expected to force the Joint Coal Board to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move to Curb Beach Mining
Coolangatta Town Council, in conjunction with Nerang Shire Council, will seek an interview with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoppage in Mines Likely
SYDNEY, Friday.--All coalmines in New South Wales may be idle next week because of dissatisfaction over the new award for members of the Deputies and Shotfirers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatened All-out Coal Stoppage
SYDNEY, Friday: With coal stocks at a disastrously low level, NSW is facing an all-out coal stoppage because of a threatened strike by deputies and shot-firers -- key workers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bonalbo Coal Taken Daily To Byron Bay
Commenting on the fact that a truck brought coal 60 miles daily from Bonalbo to the Zircon Rutile Co., Mr. J. Baker, at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Stoppage Threat Off
SYDNEY, Monday: A threatened general coal stoppage by deputies and shot firers has been averted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S. A. Seeking Extra Coal
SYDNEY, Monday: The Premier of South Australia, Mr Playford, today asked the Joint Coal Board in Sydney to build up a reserve of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal from Britain
Coal exports are becoming an increasingly important part of Britain's recovery plan. In the first three months 2,250,000 tons were shipped in a target for the year of 16 million tons. In this picture ships are being loaded at the Queen Alexandra dock in Cardiff…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manager Shot in Mine Robbery
SINGAPORE, Friday (AAP).-- While a mines payroll was being distributed, six Chinese gunmen held up the mine office and shot the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Seeking 35-Hour Week
SYDNEY, Wednesday: It was doubtful whether public requirements could be met if the working hours…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Council Beach Mining Moves
Tweed Shire Council yesterday rejected a recommendation from the parks committee that it rigorously oppose the…
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