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Mining & the mines, 1950

4,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 202

U.K. Makes Profit On Coal, Power Staff Correspondent, and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 19.— The Government-owned electricity and coal boards to-day disclosed profits on…

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Gold Mine Venture Record Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 5

With the filing of the prospectus of Great Western Consolidated, N.L., in Melbourne yesterday, Australia's…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 12

New Occidental (four weeks to Jan. 15) : New Occidental, 3805 tons, 1249 fine oz.: Chesney, 1907 tons 125 fine oz., 40 tons copper. Low production…

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Jealous of Coal

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

COLLINSVILLE (Illinois).-- A 56-years-old coal miner has been sacked in Collinsville for violating a union by-law--he…

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Assisting Gold Prospectors

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 11

When Australia is anxious to increase dollar earnings isn't it time some assistance was given to gold prospectors?…

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Miners Say “No” To TUC Freeze

Tribune · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON.—Durham Area of the Miners’ Union, a Rightwing stronghold, shocked the TUC wage-freezers by rejecting the…

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Fine Coal Pamphlet By Edgar Ross

Tribune · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 5

EVERY active member of the Labor movement should secure a copy of Edgar Ross’s excellently documented account of the great 1949…

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Violence Flares Up In American Mine Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 1

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20 (A.A.P.). — Violence flared up yesterday at several pits involved in…

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Coal Barons Drive For Wage Freeze, More Danger And Speed-Up

Tribune · Saturday 21 January 1950 · page 3

With the solemn promises of last year’s coal strike settlement still unhonored, coalowners have provocatively applied for a three-year “wage freeze” agreement, pigeon-holing of the miners’ pension scheme and…

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Coal Union Calls Miners To Fight

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 4

As the Minister for Shipping and Fuel, Senator G. McLeay announced his plan for industrial peace…

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The Murdering Gold Commissioner

Truth · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 33

WHEN the authorities appointed John Griffin, Gold Commissioner and Gold Warden at Clermont, Queensland, in 1863, it seemed that they had every reason to congratulate themselves on…

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Transvaal Gold Mine Earnings

The Sun · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 15

JOHANNESBURG, Monday. --Transvaal gold mine earnings in 1949 were £stg 110,617,436 -- nearly £stg14,500,000 over the 1948…

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Disputes Keep 6 Collieries Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 9

All southern mines are working today, but three are out of 4 production in the north and four in the west…

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Disputes Keep 6 Collieries Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 9

All southern mines are working today, but three are out of production in the north and --four in the west…

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Disputes Keep 6 Collieries Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 9

All southern mines are working today, but three are out of production in the north and four in the west…

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Disputes Keep 6 Collieries Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 9

All southern mines are working today, but three are out of, production in the north and four in the west…

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Seven Mines Id[?]

The Sun · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 12

Disputes at seven mines the northern and west fields today lost more t[?] 4000 tons of output…

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Gold Yield

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 16

New Occidental.--4 weeks to Jan. 15: New Occidental, 3805 tons for 1249oz gold: Chesney mine. 1907 tons for 125oz fine gold and 40 tons of…

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Gold Yield

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 16

New Occidental.--4 weeks to Jan. 15: New Occidental, 3305 tone. for 1249oz gold; Chesnoy mine, 1907 tons for 125oz fine gold aud 40 tons of…

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Soviet Move to Mine Uranium

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 16

BRUNSWICK (Germany). -- Russian teams are preparing to at mine uranium at Wernigerodc, in the Harz Mountains…

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