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Mining & the mines, 1950

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Wage Freeze Rejected Miners Hit At U.K. Policy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 3

—Miners in Scotland, South Wales, Yorkshire, and Lancashire have rejected the Trades Union Congress wages restraint…

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Rejuvenation of an industry Coal Board hopes to cure industry's big headache

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 8

CONTINUAL disputes in the coalmining industry are not the sole reason…

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Melbourne Gets Overseas Coal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Two ships arrived today with 26,000 tons of coal--16,000 tons from India and 10,000 tons from…

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Melbourne Gets Overseas Coal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Two ships arrived today with 26,000 tons of coal--16,000 tons from India and 10,000 tons from…

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Melbourne Gets Overseas Coal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Two ships arrived today with 26,000 tons of coal--16,000 tons from India and 10,000 tons from…

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Melbourne Gets Overseas Coal

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Two ships arrived today with 26,000 tons of coal--16,000 tons from India and 10,000 tons from…

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Five Northern Mines Idle Yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 15

Loss of coal production on the northern field yesterday vas 2,550 tons. Industrial disputes at three…

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Glimpses of Gold Sydney

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 12

THE old building still remains, although a modern frontage has been added and the residence converted into…

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Gold Companies' New Capital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 6

Lady Claire Gold No.1 and No. 2, N.L., have received Capital Issues Committee's approval to issue a further 100,000 shares of 5/ in each of the two…

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"Sun" Short Story Yellow Gold

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 38

IT was not strange that old Larson should be thinking of Tim Hogarth late that afternoon, for…

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Rise in Aust. gold output

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 12

CANBERRA, Wed.--Australian gold mines produced 76,153 fine oz. of gold in October, 1949, according to figures which the…

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Emergency State On Gold Coast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 4

ACCRA, Thursday. -- A state of emergency throughout the Gold Coast was proclaimed at…

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Emergency State On Gold Coast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 4

ACCRA, Thursday. -- A state of emergency throughout the Gold Coast was proclaimed at…

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Gold Output Higher For 10 Months

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 6

Australian gold production for the 10 months to October, 1949, was 741,161 fine oz, an increase of 8,575oz on the…

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Targets for coal miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thurs.--Govt. plans to increase coal production include a…

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Four Northern Coal Mines Idle Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

Four northern mines are idle- today, two because of strikes and loss to production will be about 2840 tons of coal…

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Four Northern Coal Mines Idle Today

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

Four northern mines are idle, today, two because of strikes, and loss to production will be about 2840 tons of coal…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 6

BURBIDGE: Four weeks to Jan. 3: treated 2,850 tons for gold valued al £1,530…

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Oakland Coal Field

The Land · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

The Premier's Department has advised the F.S.A. that the Department of Mines has been co-operating with the Victorian Government and the…

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Night Shift in Mines

The Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 6

Chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today rejected a union application for…

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