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Mining & the mines, 1947

4,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 225

PERSONALITY of the Week Shinwell Takes Control Of British Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 8

THE New Year dawned with the playing of bands and the hoisting of flags at all pitheads throughout Britain, for last ' Wednesday…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Three British Soldiers Hurt in Mine Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 28

LONDON, Friday.--Three soldiers of the British Sixth Airborne Division were injured today in a mine explosion near Tel Aviv…

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Situations Vacant Wanted: Tough Souls to Dig Pirate Treasure Are you interested in an adventure that would entail sailing halfway around the world in a small yacht for a chance to dig up £2,000,000 worth of pirate gold? A tough young englishman, Raymond Cooper, has been advertising for people to join him on just such an adventurous voyage, and here is the story he has to tell those who answer his advertisement. The writer is one of the hundreds of young adventurers who want to join Captain Cooper on his expedition to dig up pirate gold

The World's News · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 7

Raymond cooper looks as if he might have been a nineteenth-century mate in sail with no compunction in knocking the teeth…

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BRITAIN Miners were now public servants

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 19

Ianto, Dai, and Gwylim Evans were among the hundreds of miners who tramped over the ice-covered mountain…

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Gold medal won by Australian LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 1

The Poet Laureate. John Masefield, today presented the King's gold medal for poetry to Australian Michael Thwaites at…

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"Waste material" from dumps yields gold worth £50,000 Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 3

A CHARTERS TOWERS assayer and gold-mining veteran has at least £50,000 worth of gold gathered in the last ten years from "waste material" considered too poor to be profitable. He is Mr. J. Dickinson, who…

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Coal ownership

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 8

SIR,--In the Daily Telegraph last Friday, a cable from London reported that the British coalmines had been handed…

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Miners Make Good New Year Start

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

HAVING ended 1946 with record tonnages, N.S.W. miners began the New Year well today when they resumed after their holidays in all but…

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Coal Looters Arrested Swoop In Hamburg

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.).— Police in Hamburg during the past week arrested about 1,000 coal looters, says Reuters correspondent…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation, of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal' Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Trade Union Talks on World Coal Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

PARIS, Monday. -- The world coal shortage will be discussed at a special meeting of the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris today…

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Eastern Tin Mining Rehabilitation Finance

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 17

IF Eastern tin mining makes as spectacular recovery as Malayan rubber, a few years hence will see excess tin production and a repetition of the pre-war collapse of tin prices…

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Eastern Tin Mining Rehabilitation Finance

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 17

IF Eastern tin mining makes as spectacular recovery as Malayan rubber, a few years hence will see excess tin production and a repetition of the pre-war collapse of tin prices…

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Gold Pass Lost By Mr. E. C. McGrath

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 7

A gold pass, which carries free rail and tram travel until 1952, has been lost by Mr. E. C. Magrath, general secretary of the…

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