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Mining & the mines, 1947

4,492 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 225

Four Mines Idle on Northern Coalfields

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 1

ABOUT 44,000 tons of coal should be produced in N.S.W. today. All southern mines are working, but there are four stoppages in the…

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Four Mines Idle on Northern Coalfields

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 2

ABOUT 44,000 tons of coal should be produced in N.S.W. today. All southern mines are working, but there are four stoppages in the…

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Four Mines Idle on Northern Coalfields

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 2

ABOUT 44,000 tons of coal should be produced in N.S.W. today. All southern mines are working, but there are four stoppages in the…

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High Hopes of Gold Find

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Feb 6 (A.A.P.).— Financial experts in Johannesburg say the new Geduld No. 1 and No. 2 mines contain almost as much…

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Coal Crisis Ties Up 200 Ships

The Sun · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--All shipments of coal for overseas, and the bunkering of ships leaving for…

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World Coal Future Not So Pessimistic Finance

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 16

ALTHOUGH the reduced output of all major coal producing countries of the world in 1946 (with the possible exception of South Africa) has produced a pessimistic outlook for the future, the picture is not…

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World Coal Future Not So Pessimistic Finance

Daily Mirror · Friday 7 February 1947 · page 16

ALTHOUGH the reduced output of all major coal producing countries of the world in 1946 (with the possible exception of South Africa) has produced a pessimistic outlook for the future, the picture is not…

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Coal Strike Decision Deferred

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 7

The Miners' Federation Central Council yesterday deferred for three weeks action to call a…

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Mt. Kasi Mines To Liquidate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 12

The directors of Mt. Kasi Mines Ltd., Fiji, have asked shareholders to place the company in liquidation. They say a large portion of the plant…

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Gold Plaque Prize for Photography

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 4

A GOLD Plaque is to be awarded yearly for the most outstanding photograph submitted for inclusion in the first Annual of Australian Photography, to be published this year…

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Gold Plaque Prize for Photography

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 4

A GOLD Plaque is to be awarded yearly for the most outstanding photograph submitted for inclusion in the first Annual of Australian Photography, to be published this year…

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Gold Plaque Prize for Photography

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 8

A GOLD Plaque is to be awarded yearly for the most outstanding photograph submitted for inclusion in the first Annual of Australian Photography, to be published this year…

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"Britain Faces Crisis" Coal Export Ban

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Feb. 7 (A.A.P.).— "Britain is faced with the greatest industrial crisis in 20 years," said the Deputy Leader of the…

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Fortunes Are Being Made Trading In Blackmarket Currency Tons of pure gold worth millions of pounds on the legitimate market, and ten times that amount on the blackmarket, are being bought and sold in European and American markets. Allied Governments are combining to smash illegal trading in currency which threatens to upset the commercial equilibrium of some countries, and burst the bubble of inflation slowly growing in impoverished Europe

The World's News · Saturday 8 February 1947 · page 4

FORTUNES in gold and gold coin are being illegally moved about Europe and across the Atlantic like sacks of coal. The amounts…

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Green and Gold

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 1

This emerald crepe dinner-gown, worn by Sydney model June Bennett, is intricately embroidered with braid, seed pearls and colored rhinestones…

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In frozen Britain, a grim coal crisis An economic blizzard swept the country

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1947 · page 23

BLIZZARDS fiercer than any in living memory had swept Britain. Trains were buried in huge snowdrifts. Towns were isolated, factories closed, mortuaries filled…

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Six Stoppages in Northern Mines

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 4

ALL Southern and Western coal mines are working today, but there are six stoppages in the North. N.S.W. production should be about…

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Nationalised French Mine

Tribune · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 2

ONE of the €00 nationalised French coal mines. Since nationalisation, output has been stepped up and is now more than in 1938. At present more than 216,000 miners are working In France, producing 4,000,000 tons of coal a month.—French Press Service…

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Fewer Men In Mines

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--One reason for Britain's coal crisis is that there are fewer miners producing coal today and more workers in industries using it. In 1939 there were 778,000…

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4000-Ton Coal Loss

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1947 · page 3

Stoppages, absenteeism and a shortage of skips lost output today of 4310 tons of coal at six collieries…

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