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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Cuts in Gas Tonight 80,000 May Lose Jobs Bad Coal Outlook

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

GAS rationing will be imposed in Sydney and Newcastle from midnight tonight. This was decided today at a conference between representatives of…

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Cuts in Gas Tonight 80,000 May Lose Jobs Bad Coal Outlook

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

GAS rationing will be imposed in Sydney and Newcastle from midnight tonight. This was decided today at a conference between representatives of…

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Cuts in Gas Tonight 80,000 May Lose Jobs Bad Coal Outlook

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

GAS rationing will be imposed from midnight tonight. This was decided today at a conference between representatves of gas companies and the…

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Reported Uranium Discovery In Old Silver And Copper Mine In South N.S.W.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Uranium ore, used in the production of atomic energy, is reported to have been discovered in New South Wales. The ore is said to be in a disused copper and…

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Gay Monarch for Challenge Recent Randwick Form Impressive Mine Host Looks Hardest to Beat Goes Well At Randwick

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

So convincing was his recent win in the Sefton Handicap at Randwick that Sportsman is of the opinion that GAY MONARCH will carry on with the good work in Saturday's richly-endowed Challenge Stakes, to start at…

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Strikes In Coal Mines Mean Big Railway Cuts

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 2

BECAUSE of the strike by members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association in N.S.W. coal mines, steam…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

AUSTRAL N.Z.: Four weeks ended Jan. 17, dredge ran 395 hours, treated 225,000 cub, yards for 832oz bullion…

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Coal & Coke to Austria

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 2

We are advised by Mr. E. C. Stevens of “Austrian News” that the Free Austria Movement in Switzerland will send coke and coal to…

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Miners' Picnic Off --Trains Cancelled

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

The Lithgow State mine employees' annual picnic to Penrith tomorrow was cancelled last night because of the coal strike. The Commissioner for…

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Mine Host fit, says trainer

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 14

Trainer Arthur Croall is still confident that Mine Host will win the Challenge Stakes…

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Mine Host In Marked Betting Drift

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

Because he has disappointed in two track gallops this week, Mine Host has drifted markedly in the…

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Increase of Gold Price Urged

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

The following is the substance of an address by Mr. L. Rubinstein, a director, to the Shareholders of “North Deborah Gold Mine No…

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Report Of Atomic Ore In Old Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

A nurse of a Canberra hospital had reported the discovery of uranium ore in an old mine at Collector (N.S.W.), the Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley)…

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Coal Tie-up "New High In Barbarity"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

The president of the Chamber of Manufactures, Mr. J. P. Tivey, said last night that the F.E.D.F.A. strike on the…

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Coal Hold-up Cuts Rail Wheat Traffic

The Land · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 2

WITH only sufficient coal supplies to maintain rail services for a week, all goods services have been cut by 50 per…

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Uranium Search at Curriwang Tests In Old Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Curriwang, a tiny township six miles from Collector, on the Sydney-Canberra road, has been revealed as the location of reported deposits of uranium ore. Uranium is used…

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Electricity Rationing May Be Decided Today Stock Of Coal Low

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

THE dislocation of industry, the stoppage of communal services and transport, and widespread unemployment, were…

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Electricity Rationing May Be Decided Today Stock Of Coal Low

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

THE dislocation off industry, the stoppage of communal services and transport, and widespread unemployment, were…

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Bushfire Menaces Mining Town Mt. Lyell Works Surrounded

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 7

Fierce bushfires lost wight threatened the Mt. Lyell copper smelting works and the township of Queenstown, on the west coast of Tasmania…

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LETTERS to the EDITOR Coal should be an essential industry Strike penalties

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 6

SIR,--You quite rightly drew attention in your editorial on Wednesday to the strikes in the…

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