Big Plans for Beach Mining
MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—A beach mining company, claiming that it will be the world's biggest…
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Mining & the mines, 1952
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Search For "Gold"
An Olympic medal won by champion Australian cyclist, Lionel Cox, at Helsinki, was lost in a drain at Camperdown. It was dropped by Cox's mother, Mrs. F. Campbell, who was taking the medal to a friend's place for…
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CASINO, Monday.—Casino Chamber of Commerce will ask the State Transport Department' to waive the road…
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Threads of pure gold have been found in the fabric of two chairs sent to a Grafton furniture shop for renovation. The chairs are owned by…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP).—South Africa's Minister of Finance, Mr. N. C. Havenga, is due in New York today to resume a quest he has long pursued—an increase in the price of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Mining Output Record: Worth £69m
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The value of output of the mine and quarrying industries of N.S.W. was a record for 1951. The increase represented…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Saving in Coal at Power House
MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.—Coal usage at Murwillumbah powerhouse has been reduced by 20 tons a…
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SEOUL, Friday (AAP).—American and Australian fighter-bombers attacked a North Korean mining centre today, while on the ground United Nations' infantrymen and artillery beat…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Miners' Federation official left Sydney by air yesterday to investigate mechanical mining methods in the U.S.A., Great Britain and Western Europe…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—South Africa's new Orange Free State goldfield will produce uranium…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spender Supports Increase In The Price of Gold
MEXICO CITY, Wednesday (AAP).—Australian Ambassador to the United States, Sir Percy Spender, yesterday supported South Africa's advocacy of an increase in the price of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mechanically Cut Coal Increase
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mechanically cut coal from underground mines in N.S.W. had increased by nearly 40…
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The 1/6 per ton drop in coal prices will not lower Lismore consumers' gas bills, Gas Engineer, Mr. J. B. Scott, said yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—General secretary of the Miners Federation, Mr. Grant, said today the Federation liad been informed that the State coal mine at Woftthaggi, Victoria, might be closed down…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board had made "drastic" recommendations to meet the crisis threatening the coal industry, the N.S.W. Minister for Mines, Mr. Arthur, said today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation had wired the Federal and N.S.W. Governments for official advice of recommendations in the Joint Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cahill Seeks Talks on Coal
SYDNEY, Monday.—The N.S.W. Premier, Mr. Cahill, will seek talks with the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, on the crisis threatening the coal industry. The N.S.W. Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining to Be Allowed on Native Reserves
CANBERRA, Monday.—The Commonwealth will lift restrictions on native reserves to permit mining to take…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Markets Sought for Coal
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Inquiries are being made overseas into the possibility of exporting more Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star Wednesday, October 1, 1952. No Cause For Alarm In Coal Stockpile
IT IS UNLIKELY that there will be any great public support for the concern now being felt in some official and semi-official quarters about accumulating stocks of coal. For years, industry…
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