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Mining & the mines, 1948

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Letters to the Editor Gold Prospects in North Exploitation Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 2

Sir,—Will the people of Australia wake up before it is too late to the dangers that threaten the Northern Territory from…

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Miners Tell How To Win More Coal

Tribune · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 3

More coal can only be won by “fearlessly cutting through the tangle of wasteful methods, neglect of conditions, profit-seeking policies, reactionary labor relations, managerial inefficiency and the anarchy of…

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Peril Of The Unswept Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 5

THE Admiralty has announced that it expects the world's sea lanes to be clear of mines by next December. Minefields know…

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Work Starts on Meekatharra Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 16

Coolgardie Brilliant, N.L., has announced a call of 3d a share to finance work on the Phar Lap mine, at…

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Poland Wins Battle for Food and Coal

Tribune · Saturday 28 February 1948 · page 2

WARSAW.—After three years of hard battling, to rehabilitate herself, war-stricken Poland expects to became self-sufficient in grain and meat this year. HER food imports will be limited…

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All Gold Is Heroic Sovereign

Truth · Sunday 29 February 1948 · page 12

Heroic Sovereign put up a grand performance for a three-year-old at Randwick yesterday…

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Grim scenes after mines wreck train

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Monday. -- Grim-faced troops walked through pools of blood and tore at with bare and wood bleeding hands to extricate dead and wounded in…

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Moves To Raise Gold Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 5

The Commonwealth Government is considering a subsidy to help revive the gold mining industry, according to the…

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Harshber the Coal Heaver Moshe Lieb Halperin

Australian Jewish Forum · Monday 1 March 1948 · page 14

AND Harshber the coal heaver spread his two black heavy hands and to the pale young knight who stood opposite him bowing said…

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British Gold Sales

The Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The Treasury announces, that gross sales of gold in February amounted to £27,000.000…

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Doctor Tests 400 Miners for Dust

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 10

LITHGOW, Tuesday.-- Four hundred miners, specially selected from all collieries on the western field, are being…

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Doctor Tests 400 Miners for Dust

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 3

LITHGOW, Tuesday.-- Four hundred miners, specially selected from all collieries on the western field, are being…

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Last Year's Gold Worth £10,000,000

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- During 1947 the quantity of gold produced in Australia was 937,359 fine ounces, valued at…

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Last Year's Gold Worth £10,000,000

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- During 1947 the quantity of gold produced in Australia was 937,359 fine ounces, valued at…

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Last Year's Gold Worth £10,000,000

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- During 1947 the quantity of gold produced in Australia was 937,359 fine ounces, valued at…

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Last Year's Gold Worth £10,000,000

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- During 1947 the quantity of gold produced in Australia was 937,359 fine ounces, valued at…

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Mine strike over strike

The Sun · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

Miners at Lithgow Valley, colliery (daily output 530 tons of coal) struck to-day, as a protest against having had…

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British Gold Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 6

LONDON, Mar. 2 (A.A.P.).— The Treasury announced yesterday that gross sales of gold by the United Kingdom during…

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Production of Gold Rises

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australian gold production in 1947 was 13.7 per cent. higher than in 1946, but 43 per cent. below the peak…

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U.k. Gold Sales Continue

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Britain's gross sales of gold in February amounted to £27,000,000 sterling,…

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