Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1945

2,866 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 144

Miners' Leaders Hopeful

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 15

Hopes of miners' leaders for improvements as an outcome of the Board of Inquiry on Coal, which will commence on March…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 16

BRISEIS CONSOLIDATED reports that the January production, 29 tons of tin concentrates, yielded an estimated net profit of £2665 before providing for development and…

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

Mining Reports

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 16

BRISEIS CONSOLIDATED reports that the January production,..29 tons of tin concentrates, yielded an estimated net profit of £2665 before providing for development and…

Continued on Trove, page 16 →

Medical Exam. FOR 100 Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

A hundred men from Won- gawilli colliery are to be examined to see if there is an undue incidence of bronchitis…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Entombed Miners Not Yet Found

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 3

IPSWICH, Friday. -- Although authorities are convinced there is now no hope for the four miners entombed at New Ebbw Yale No. 3 Colliery, near Ipswich, weary rescue squads are…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Medical Exam. FOR 100 Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 6

A hundred men from Wongawilli colliery are to be examined to see if there is an undue incidence of bronchitis…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Entombed Miners Not Yet Found

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 3

IPSWICH, Friday.-- Although authorities are convinced there is now no hope for the four miners entombed at New Ebbw Vale No. 3 Colliery, near Ipswich, weary rescue squads are…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Miners Are Hopeful Of Inquiry

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Hopes of miners' leaders for improvements as an outcome of the Board of Inquiry on Coal, which will commence on March…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Miners Are Hopeful Of Inquiry

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Hopes of miners' leaders for improvements as an outcome of the Board of Inquiry on Coal, which will commence on March…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Medical Exam. FOR 100 Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

A hundred men from Wongawilli colliery are to be examined to see if there is an undue incidence of bronchitis…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Counsel Restricted at Coal Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 4

Parties to the Coal Inquiry have been advised by the chairman, Mr. Justice Davidson, that legal representation at it will not be allowed, except…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Miners Dig for Lives of Mates

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Sixty-five feet below ground, four men are trapped in a gallery at Ebbw Vale Colliery, Ipswich, Queensland, while volunteers, working round the clock, are striving to drive through to reach them. Picture shows one party of fellow miners, feverishly tearing out the soil which lies over the spot where the men are believed to be entombed. Twice baffled by subsidences, the rescue parties have never ceased hoping, and working. (See story Page 9)…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Miners Dig for Lives of Mates

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Sixty-five feet below ground, four men ore trapped in a gallery at Ebbw Vale Colliery, Ipswich, Queensland, while volunteers, working round the clock, are striving to drive through to reach them. Picture shows one party of fellow miners, feverishly tearing out the soil which lies oyer the spot where the men are believed to be entombed. Twice baffled, by subsidences, the rescue parties have never ceased hoping, and working. (See story Page 9)…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Stop Press No Hope for Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 20

IPSWICH, Friday.-- This afternoon 30 hours after the explosion which buried four miners in a colliery near. Ipswich, rescures…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Stop Press No Hope for Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 20

IPSWICH, Friday.-- This afternoon 30 hours after the explosion which burried four minutes in a colliery near Ipswich, rescuers…

Continued on Trove, page 20 →

Miners Dig for Lives of Mates

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Sixty-five feet below ground, four men are trapped in a gallery at Ebbw Vale Colliery, Ipswich, Queensland, while volunteers, working round the clock., are striving to drive through to reach them. Picture shows one party of fellow miners, feverishly tearing out the soil which lies over the spot where the men are believed to be entombed. Twice baffled by subsidences, the rescue parties have never ceased hoping, and working. (See story Page 9)…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Hopes Fading For Trapped Mine Workers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—There is little hope now of saving four miners who were entombed, at New Ebbw Vale No. 3 colliery,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Four Believed Dead After Mine Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Miners worked under are lights tonight in an attempt to reach four men missing following an explosion this morning at Ebbw Vale No. 3 Colliery, near Ipswich…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Miners Dig for Lives of Meals

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

Sixty-five feet below ground, four men are trapped in a gallery at Ebbw Vale Colliery, Ipswich, Queensland, while volunteers, working round the clock, are striving to drive through to reach them. Picture shows one party of fellow miners, feverishly tearing out the soil which lies over the spot where the men are believed to be entombed. Twice baffled by subsidences, the rescue parties have never ceased hoping, and working. (See story Page 9)…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

No Hope for Miners Rescuers Sink New Shaft to Recover Bodies

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 9

IPSWICH, Friday.-- Although authorities are convinced there is now no hope for the four miners entombed at New Ebbw Vale No. 3 Colliery, near Ipswich, weary rescue squads are…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →