Export of Blair Athol Coal
BRISBANE, Wednesday: A shipment of 6500 tons of Blair Athol coal will be exported from Gladstone next month to…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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250 Drowned When Vessel Strikes Mine
TOKIO, Wednesday: Two hundred and fifty Japanese pas[?]engers on a wooden ferry were drowned to-day when the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Qld. Excluded From Joint Coal Board
CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) and the Queensland Premier (Mr Hanlon) agreed today that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Big Industry on Tweed
The proceeds of mining operations in the Murwillumbah district during the year ended December 31 last totalled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Gov't Wants Free Gold Market
PARIS, Wednesday (AAP).--The Premier (M. Schuman) held an emergency Cabinet meeting today, after which the Government spokesman said the Ministers had decided to ask the Assembly to pass the free…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Govt. in Jeopardy over Free Gold Market Bill
LONDON Wednesday: Reuter's Paris representative says: The Premier (M. Schuman) on the resumed debate in the Assembly on the free gold market bill said the Assembly's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Officials Against Export of Coal to Asia SYDNEY, Thursday
Members of the central executive of the Miners' Federation today bitterly condemned the action of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Friability Test for Blair Athol Coal
CANBERRA, Thursday. -- Six thousand tons of coal from Blair Athol fields in Queensland are being shipped, to China to test its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Gold Bill May Yet Pass Assembly
PARIS, Thursday (AAP). -- The Prime Minister (M. Schuman) may yet force his Free Gold Market Bill through the National Assembly. After a stormy four hour meeting yesterday the Socialists, by 46 votes to 36, decided to abstain from voting on the bill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blair Athol Coal for China As Test BRISBANE, Thursday
Six thousand tons of coal from the Blair Athol fields, Queensland, were being shipped to China to test its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opposition to S. African Gold Loan to U.k
CAPE TOWN, Thursday: Opposition Nationalist Party tabled a motion opposing the ratification of the £80million gold loan to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Reference Board Reserves Decision
SYDNEY, Friday: The Central Coal Reference Board today reserved its decision on two applications by the Federated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Con. Man Tricks Gold Buyer
SYDNEY, Friday. -- C.I.B. detectives tonight received a sensational report that a gold buyer had been tricked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →African Gold Loan to U.k. Opposed
CAPETOWN, Friday (AAP). -- Ratification of South Africa's £80 million gold loan to Britain unless South Africa imports fewer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Coal Hold-up Averted
SYDNEY, Sunday: Wheelers, who yesterday threatened to stop production on all Maitland collieries tonight, have now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Charged With Gold Fraud
DUBBO, Sunday.--The police have arrested a man in Dubbo on a charge of having stolen £800 from an Hungarian, Andre Balouch, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Council to Discuss Blair Athol Plans
SYDNEY, Sunday: Important decisions affecting coal production this year are expected at a meeting this week of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warning to Mine Workers and Owners
SYDNEY, Monday : The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr Gallagher) today warned mine workers and colliery proprietors that persons responsible for stopping production in mines would be excluded from the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threat of Coal Strike in Qld
BRISBANE, Monday: A Statewide coal strike may develop from the Blair Athol dispute. Today the miners ignored the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strikes Hit B.h.p. Production
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Coal strikes this year cut the Broken Hill Pty. Co. steel output by 40 per cent…
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