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Mining & the mines, 1949

6,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Members' Bid to Get More Coal Minister Leads Delegation To Address Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 4

The Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator Ashley) will lead a parliamentary delegation to northern coalfields towns next weak…

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Minister Will Talk To Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 3

The Minister for Shipping and Fuel, Senator W. P. Ashley, will address public meetings nightly during his…

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Gold Dredge Future Sale Or New Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1949 · page 6

The dredge of Austral New Zealand Mining Ltd. might be sold or worked oh a Malayan property, said the chairman,…

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Heart of Gold Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, April 2.—A 51-year-old widow, "Mrs. Heart," recently asked the public…

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A mouthful of Moscow gold

The Sun · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 13

General Vassily Chuikov, new Soviet Military Governor of Germany, has a mouthful of gold…

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Sydney Gold Spare Prices Puzzle Experts

Truth · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 16

OVER in Western Australia where almost every second citizen knows his gold mines backwards they are completely unable to understand the extraordinary interest take…

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Financial Review Why More Gold Has To Be Produced By the Finance Editor

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 11

Australia in 1948 produced 5.2 per cent. fewer oz. of gold than in the previous year. Canada, on the other hand, expanded her output by 14 per cent. The contrast is significant. The Australian industry has…

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Serious Trouble Looming On Coalfields As Leaders Of Mining Unions Prepare New Industrial 'Blitz'

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 3 April 1949 · page 1

Serious trouble is again looming on the coalfields. The Federal and State Ministers and moderate union leaders fear that the Communists in the coal-mining unions are planning a big hold-up. Coal reserves are so low…

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Output Talk to Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 5

The Minister for Fuel and Shipping, Senator W. P. Ashley, will slicss the need for greater coal production when he…

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Skip Drops 3,200ft Mine Blocked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 3

KALGOORLIE, Sunday. —A runaway skip at the Great Boulder gold mine yesterday caused several…

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Miners Object to Walk-- Biggest Pit Idle

The Sun · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 9

Two strikes about walking up and down hills threaten to dislocate steel output at the BHP steelworks at Newcastle. At Burwood mine, which produces about 3000 tons of…

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Striking Miners To Have Visit From Menzies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 4

The Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. R. G. Menzies, will speak to-morrow at 'Captain's Flat, where…

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New Gold Price Talk Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1949 · page 6

JOHANNESBURG, April 3.—A boom in gold shares on the Stock Exchanges has carried the index for shares of…

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Gas Fuel Test In Coal Mine

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 9

GORGAS, Alabama.-- An experiment to see if an economical gas fuel can be produced by burning…

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Gas Fuel Test In Coal mine

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 9

GORGAS, Alabama.-- An experiment to see if an economical gas fuel can be produced by burning…

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Coal Delays Trams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 9

TRAM and motor traffic was held up for about a half hour at King's Cross at 9.30 a.m. today, when a coal truck…

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Reason for Coal Loss

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- More coal had been lost through heating at northern mines during the last…

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Coal output has improved

The Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 7

Increased output from NSW mines is expected between now and Easter, because, apart from the…

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Reason for Coal Loss

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 21

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.-- More coal had been lost through heating at northern mines during the last…

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Profit "Sixth" of Miners' Loss

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Mon.--The yearly profits of oil Australian coalmining companies would not total one-sixth of the wages coolminers threw away…

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