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Mining & the mines, 1948

4,740 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 237

New Towns For Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

Model townships for 5000 miners and their families would be constructed near the new State…

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Model towns for miners

The Sun · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 6

Model townships will be built to house workers of the new State coal mines at Burragorang Valley, Awaba…

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New Towns For Miners

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

Model townships for 5000 miners and their families would be constructed near the new State…

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Mine Stoppages Cause Big Loss

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 2

COAL losses will be heavy again today because of eight stoppages in the north and two in the south…

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Coal Shortage Stops S.a. Trains

The Sun · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- No steam passenger trains will run in South Australia, with a few country exceptions,…

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Mine Host Bach

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 10

MINE HOST, Who picked up a stone on Doncaster morning and had to be scratched from the big race, is back…

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Mine Host Back

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 12

MINE HOST, who picked up a stone on Doncaster morning and had to be scratched from the big race, is back…

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Mine Host Back

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 10

MINE HOST, who picked up a stone on Doncaster morning and had to be scratched from the big race, is back…

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Mine Host Back

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 12

MINE HOST, who picked up a stone on Doncaster morning and had to be scratched from the big race, is back…

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Mine Host Back

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 12

MINE HOST, who picked up a stone on Doncaster morning and had to be scratched from the big race, is back…

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New Cobar Mine Closed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 16

New Occidental Gold Mines, N.L., has temporarily closed the New Cobar mine…

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From Coal To Oil

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 8

Victorian Railways Department is planning to make itself independent of NSW coal, and conversion of Victorian railways' traction plant from coal to oil-burning is proceeding steadily…

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New Cobar Mine to Close

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 4

New Occidental Gold Mines, NL, is temporarily closing its New Cobar mine because of insufficient manpower…

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Miners to Work More Overtime

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 3

LONDON, April 2 (A.A.P.).— British miners have decided to continue to work regular overtime for another year from…

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Gold, On The Fourth Floor

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 9

But it doesn't offer much chance to the general public to get in--except at a fourth floor price. The ground floor has gone, first…

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U.k. Sells More Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 16

LONDON, Friday.--The Treasury reports that gold sales during March totalled £6,000,000…

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N.s.w. Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 4

Production of gold in N.S.W. during the first two months of the year was 7,055oz fine, valued at £75,931, against 4,615oz fine…

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U.k. Gold and Dollars Deals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 4

LONDON. April 2. (A.A.P.)— The Treasury announced that gold sales in March totalled £stg6 million. The Government…

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World Gold Output Russia Moves Up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 4

With world gold output in 1946 still 30 per cent below the 1939 level, Russia had ousted Canada as the second…

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There's a New Guinea gold rush

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 10

NEW GUINEA, Friday. --Since dawn yesterday a small party of Australian prospectors, led…

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