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Mining & the mines, 1944

4,597 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 230

Coal Shortage in Eire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, April 5 (A.A.P.).—The Eire Minister for Supplies, Mr. Lemass, has banned the sale of coal throughout the country because of a…

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Valuable Coal Seam Found in Britain

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--What is described as the biggest seam of outcrop coal ever found in Britain has been discovered extending 26 miles…

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Valuable Coal Seam Found in Britain

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--What is described as the biggest seam of outcrop coal ever found in Britain has been discovered extending 26 miles…

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Valuable Coal Seam Found in Britain

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--What is described as the biggest seam of outcrop coal ever found in Britain has been discovered extending 26 miles…

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Strike Over Eviction 1,800 Tons of Coal Lost

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.— John Darling Colliery was idle to-day because a sidler had secured an eviction order against a…

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Refugee in the Bush 19 Months on The Goldfields of W.A.

The Sydney Jewish News · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 6

Mobs of kangaroos hopping across the bush track and a mirage of a small lake on the horizon, are all that break the monotony of the…

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Sinister Movement In Mines Alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1944 · page 4

A "sinister underground movement" on the coalfields was responsible for many stoppages, the secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. Grant)…

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Coal Miners' Widows

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 5

DENIAL is given by the NSW Registrar of Coal and Oil Shale Mine Workers' Pensions Fund (B. O'Grady) to the statement in "Smith's" (18344) by a writer from Cessnock (NSW) that "We now find cases where a widow has been…

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Alluvial Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

Alluvial Gold Ltd. dicl[?]ses a less of £277 for the year ended June 30. compared with £336 for the previous year. Debit balance is increased to £22, 674…

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Miners' Leaders to Meet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 7

LONDON, April 7 (A.A.P.).—The national executive of the Mineworkers' Federation decided to hold a conferenec in London on Wednesday next…

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Coal Sea and AIR

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 17

VELON, made from sea-water and petroleum," latest synthetic fabric to hit the news, is a wonder- substance, but it's no new discovery, nor is it so easy to make as above cabled description implies…

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Guarantee for Mt. Isa Mine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--The Commonwealth Government will guarantee Mount Isa Mining Company, biggest producer of copper in…

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Emergency Mine Talks in London

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--At a frank talk between the Minister for Labor (Mr. Bevin) and the Mine- workers' Federation, it was…

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Guarantee for Mt. Isa Mine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--The Commonwealth Government will guarantee Mount Isa Mining Company, biggest producer of copper in…

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Emergency Mine Talks in London

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--At a frank talk between the Minister for Labor (Mr. Bevin) and the Mine- workers' Federation, it was…

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Emergency Mine Talks in London

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--At a frank talk between the Minister for Labor (Mr. Bevin) and the Mine- workers' Federation, it was…

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Guarantee Fur Mt. Isa Mine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--The Commonwealth Government wil guarantee Mount Isa Mining Company, biggest producer of copper…

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Guarantee for Mt. Isa Mine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--The Commonwealth Government will guarantee Mount Isa Mining Company, biggest producer of copper in…

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Gold Dust Christ My Master

The Methodist · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 2

Christ my Master beckoneth, Christ my Lord, the Crucified, He thus called reckoneth All the world as nought beside,…

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No British Coal Exports to Eire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--Britain has prohibited the export of coal to Eire, whose fuel position is reported to be "bordering on the calamitous." JUST before the ban was imposed…

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