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Mining & the mines, 1949

6,231 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 250

Unsporting Treasube-hunters Spoilt Latecomers' Chances Pirates' Gold Buried on Cocos Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 11

A FEW days ago yet another treasure-hunting expedition returned to America after spending 65 days and £13,000 on Cocos Island without finding a single piece-of- eight of the £22 million in gold and jewels said to have been…

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Miners' Efforts

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 18

LONDON.--Yorkshire miners of the five New Monckton pits faced with closure in June unless output improves…

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Miners' Efforts

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 18

LONDON.--Yorkshire miners of the five New Monckton pits faced with closure in June unless output improves…

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Miners Forecast Trouble

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 8

Combined Mining Unions' Council in Sydney today decided that the High Court challenge to the…

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Coal Industry Troubles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 2

Sir,—The Joint Coal Board, the Coal Tribunal, and other fulltime experts with a lifetime of experience behind them, have been…

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First Hit Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 6

Liquidators of First Hit Gold Mine, N.L., Intend to declare a dividend. Books will close on June 15…

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Coal Strike in Britain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 1

LONDON, May 9 (A.A.P.).—Fifty. Lancashire coalmines were idle to-day as the number of strikers in the…

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Report on Coal Strike

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 21

CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- The Acting Attorney- General (Sen. McKenna) has received a report from…

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Report on Coal Strike

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- The Acting Attorney- General (Sen. McKenna) has received a report from…

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Miners' Darg Criticised By Tribunal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 4

A miner should be allowed to produce as much coal as he wanted to, provided skips were…

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Baddeley for big coal job

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 5

A committee of Labor MsLA has recommended to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that Mr. Baddeley be…

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New Mining Chief Flan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 2

Eleven Labor M.L.A.s from metalliferous and coal mining electorates have urged the Premier…

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New Mining Chief Plan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 2

Eleven Labor M.L.A.s from metalliferous and coal mining electorates have urged the Premier…

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New Mining Chief Plan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 2

Eleven Labor M.L.A.s from metalliferous and coal mining electorates have urged the Premier…

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750 miles of rich Queensland coal

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 13

IN Queensland, stretching 750 miles from West Moreton, near Brisbane, through the Collide country to Collinvale, near Bowen, there are almost unbroken deposits of high grade black coal…

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Coal Held Up By Strike Of Railmen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Monday. —No coal was hauled on the South Maitland railways to-day, because the…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, May 10, 1949 Miners Threaten Force to Gain Their Aims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1949 · page 2

Threats of new coal stoppages have been issued by the miners' leaders. They have presented a sweeping…

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Miners' Log Conference

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 May 1949 · page 3

The Joint Coal Board has agreed to a conference with the Combined Mining Unions' Council on a…

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Miners' Log Conference

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 May 1949 · page 3

The Joint Coal Board has agreed to a conference with the Combined Mining Unions' Council on a…

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Return to Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 May 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Wonthaggi miners resumed work at midnight following an order by the Coal Industry…

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