Hopes Fade for Trapped Miners
PERTH, Tuesday.—Chances of finding alive two miners who were trapped by a fall of earth in Baddera lead mine, near Northampton, 400 miles north of Perth, yesterday afternoon have…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
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Search for Miners
PERTH, Wednesday.—In a renewed effort to locate the bodies of two men buried in a 500-ton fall of…
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PERTH, Friday. — The stope in Baddera lead mine at Northampton, W.A., where Herbert Coles and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. —Mott than 23,000 miners throughout Australia will return to work tomorrow, after three…
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PERTH, Sunday. — The week-old search for the bodies of two milkers trapped by a fall of earth in…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Coalminers throughout Australia returned to work today after three weeks' annual leave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star Tuesday, January 13, 1953. Coal Need Turns From Quantity to Quality
EMPHASIS DURING the last week on the need for improved efficiency in methods of mining top quality coal is consistent with last year's great record by which the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Dirty Coal Reason For Low Gas Pressure in Lismore
Dirty coal had reduced gas pressures in some Lismore homes, according to gas engineer, Mr. J. B. Scott. Mr. Scott, in a report to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Lease Application
An application for the suspension of labour conditions in connection with a mining lease at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Atomic Power As Cheap As 1½d. Ton Coal
Britain and U.S.A. are pioneering atomi[?]nergy research into [?] electric power as cheaply as if…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Summer Cup at Gold Club
The first 18 holes stroke play of the Summer Cup competition will be played at Lismore golf club today…
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A beach mining project is now in full operation at Jerusalem Creek, 18 miles from Woodburn…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Miners' Federation Central Council yesterday elected a committee of six to investigate the funds of the Union's central office…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A barrister, claimed in the Supreme Court today the director of State coal mines,…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.—The price of Muswellbrook coal used at Tweed Shire Council's…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—In the Equity Court, Sydney, on Friday, the Chief Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Roper,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The coal industry tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, today issued an award granting long service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£1½m. Annually From Beach Mining District Centres Share
Mining rare metals from beach sands is noW the third most profitable form of mining in New South Wales, and in the last six years the value of annual output has increased from £30,000 to £1½ million. The chief producing centres in the State are…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The N.S.W. Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association has decided to establish a fund to…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.—To enable beach sand leases at Cudgen to be mined, the new coast road being built…
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