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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1976

6 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Town Talk More Men to Be Sacked at Cobar Copper Mine

The Western Herald · Friday 2 April 1976 · page 1

Another 65 men will be sacked from Cobar’s C.S.A. Copper Mine, but ore production will be maintained at 600,000 tonnes a year. This was stated by the Mine Manager, Mr. Jack…

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Broken Hill Mine Closes

The Western Herald · Friday 6 August 1976 · page 11

Underground operations at the South Mine at Broken Hill which has been operated since 1972 by MMM Co. Limited, have been closed down ending public…

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Ladies Go Down the Mine

Western Magazine · Monday 16 August 1976 · page 3

Only a few years ago it would have been unthinkable for a woman to go down a…

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Threat of $2,000 a day fine for prospecting Day of the Old Time Gold Miner Is Over

Western Magazine · Monday 30 August 1976 · page 3

That romantic figure of the patient, perservering, optimistic prospector will become a fading image unless New South Wales mining laws are relaxed…

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Machines go down the mine while retired pit ponies twitch their tails

Western Magazine · Monday 6 September 1976 · page 3

It is only a few years since pit ponies used to drag the skips in Messrs Hogan and Gorman’s coal mine at Ulan, near Mudgee. Some of them are still…

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Historic hearse of gold rush days

Western Magazine · Monday 15 November 1976 · page 10

Federal Minister for the 'Capital Territory, Mr Tony Staley, MP, releases the brake. Riding shotgun…

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