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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

6,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

Tennant Creek May Enjoy Re-birth Prospectors Expect Big New Gold Strike

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 17

TENNANT CREEK, Wednesday.--The roaring days of the early 1930's are swiftly returning to the Northern Territory's unique ironstone gold fields at Tennant Creek. Prospectors are confident the Territory is on the verge of a…

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Sharkey Protest Boomerang Mining Council Move May Fail Mine Stops Unpopular

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 2

LAST Monday's proles by the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the Sharkey prosecutions seems certain to rebound against its authors…

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Sharkey Protest Boomerang Mining Council Move May Fail Mine Stops Unpopular

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 2

LAST Monday's protest- by the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the Sharkey prosecutions seems certain to rebound against its authors…

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18 Miners Killed

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 1

ROME, Thursday.--A roof fall is reported to have trapped and killed 18 miners in a coalpit near Albona in…

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Protests on Sharkey May Boomerang Mining Body Move Mine Strikes Not Favored

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 18

LAST Monday's protest by the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the Sharkey prosecutions seems certain to rebound against its authors…

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Protests on Sharkey May Boomerang Mining Body Move Mine Strikes Not Favored

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 18

LAST Monday's protest by the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the Sharkey prosecutions seems certain to rebound against its authors…

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Protests on Sharkey May Boomerang Mining Body Move Mine Strikes Not Favored

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 18

LAST Monday's protest by the Combined Mining Unions' Council on the Sharkey prosecutions seems certain to rebound against its authors…

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Mine engineers' wages claim rejected

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 13

Chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board (Mr. Gallagher) today again rejected a claim by mining engineers and mechanics for general wage increases…

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Coal Co. to Wind Up

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 19

Shareholders of Newcastle Coal Mining Co., Ltd., have agreed that the company be wound up…

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Promising Yield From W.A. Mine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.-- The 214-ton trial parcel of ore from the find made by the Baker brothers in the…

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Promising Yield From W.A. Mine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.-- The 214-ton trial parcel of ore from the find made by the Baker brothers in the…

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Sharkey Splits Miners Protest Move Rejected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 1

The Sharkey case has split the Miners' Federation. The powerful northern executive yesterday carried a motion dissociating itself from…

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Blair Athol Coal Coy. in Doubt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

The two companies operating the Blair Athol coalfield, Queensland, were still in the dark about their future, Mr. D. M. Corrie,…

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Coal output this week near record

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 11

Coal output this week is expected to be the highest since the record-breaking yields late last year…

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Coal Drive In North By Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Shipping and Fuel, Senator W. P. Ashley, will spend a week among miners on the…

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U.k. Interest in Gold Shares

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

LONDON, March 23 (A.A.P.). —Dealers in Australian gold shares on the London Stock Exchange continue to hope for a…

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Mine town doctor dispenses free medicine for all

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 5

Helensburgh, a small mining centre on the South Coast, is believed to he the only centre in NSW where the Free Medicine Scheme operates exclusively…

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Coal shortage may stop S.A. industry

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Unless a collier could be diverted to Osborne speedily industry will have to close…

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Coal Coy. to Wind Up Long Career

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

The Newcastle Coal Mining Co. Ltd., which was formed 72 years ago, has decided to windup voluntarily…

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No Profit Left In N.Z. Gold Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 6

Raising of the New Zealand exchange rate to parity with sterling meant that the greater part of the unworked area of Ngahere…

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