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Mining & the mines, 1950

4,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 202

Soviet Coal Output

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 10

MOSCOW, Friday.--Minister of the Coal industry (M. Zasyadko) has announced that, during the fourth…

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Soviet Coal Output

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 10

MOSCOW, Friday.--Minister of the Coal Industry (M. Zasyadko) has announced that, during the fourth…

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To Consider Gold Price

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 28

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--The executive board of the International Monetary Fund probably…

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U.k. Coal Output Passes Target

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 11

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Britain's miners produced 215,113,000 tons of coal in 1949. The Government target for…

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Coal Trouble May Restrict Rail Services

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

COMMISSIONER for N.S.W. Railways (Mr. Garside) said yesterday that the railway coal position was causing the…

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I.M.F. Talks On Gold Sales, Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.).—Two matters of high importance to gold producers are likely to be…

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Huge Claim Against U.s. Mine Union

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

CAMBRIDGE (Ohio), Saturday-- Eight damages suits for a total of 10 million dollars have been…

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Huge Claim Against U. S. Mine Union

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

CAMBRIDGE (Ohio), Saturday-- Eight damages suits for a total of 10 million dollars have been…

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Huge Claim Against U .S. Mine Union

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

CAMBRIDGE (Ohio), Saturday-- Eight damages suits for a total of 10 million dollars have been…

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Huge Claim Against U. S. Mine Union

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

CAMBRIDGE (Ohio), Saturday-- Eight damages suits for a total of 10 million dollars have been…

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Iuge Claim Gainst U. S. Mine Union

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

CAMBRIDGE (Ohio), Saturday-- Eight damages its for a total of 10 Million dollars have been…

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Gold Is Still Where You Find It

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 15

When men get the smell of gold into their nostrils neither hell nor high water will stop them going after it. No price in human sacrifice or discomfort is counted too great in the winning of the metal. IN remote parts of Cape York…

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Mining for Monsters — and Primitive Man

The World's News · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 6

WHEN the West was really wild, W they used.to say that every night was Saturday night in Ekalaka and that Saturday night…

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Migrants Unfit As Miners

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 7

PERTH, Saturday.—Three British migrants who were to work on the Golden Mile Mines at Kalgoorlie have been…

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Police find gold racket

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 3

COMMONWEALTH investigators have discovered a gold-smuggling ring operating between Australia and the East. Blackmarket prices are up…

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Record Output of Coal Tipped

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 38

Greater use of machinery in mines, expansion of open-cut mining and a steady improvement in…

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Customs Give Wrong Man Parcel Of Gold Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Jan. 7.—Two hundred pounds weight of pure gold, valued at £42,000, which was sent from…

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Gossip: Barbecue...gold buttons...new house...Bathurst homecoming...letter from Germany...lobster luncheon...to Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 35

FRIENDS of Mr. and J Mrs. Jack Austin and Dr. and Mrs. Gorman Walker were…

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Special Talks with Joint Board Cabinet To Start Blitz On Nation's Coal Output Incentive Pay Scheme Will Get Priority

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 7

CANBERRA, Saturday.—The Government is to throw all its efforts into finding a solution to the problem of boosting coal output, which will have top priority when the Cabinet meets to-morrow. The Prime Minister,…

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Northern Miners Return to Work

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--More than 12,000 mineworkers resumed work on the northern coalfields thus morning, after…

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