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Mining & the mines, 1950

4,021 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 202

Boy Pegs Out Gold Claim Reef Believed Under School

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- A schoolboy was among 30 persons who joined the Wedderburn gold rush yesterday and staked out claims in the…

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Boy Pegs Out Gold Claim Reef Believed Under School

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- A schoolboy was among 30 persons who joined the Wedderburn gold rush yesterday and staked out claims in the…

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Joint Coal Board Chairman Resigns. Mr. Keith Cameron for Mt. Morgan

Construction · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 4

Mr. Keith Cameron, chairman of the Joint Coal Board, has resigned .to accept a £10,000 a year position with Mt. Morgan Ltd., Queensland. Mr. Cameron, who was appointed by the Chifley…

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Real Sparklers or Black Diamonds! Tory Govt.'s High Price for Coal

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

Landed cost of the coal to be imported by the Commonwealth and some States this year will be…

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Tons of Coal in Queensland Liberal M.P.'S Tip Ten Years' Reprieve for Australia

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

The Liberal member for Benelong (Mr. Cramer M.H.R.) told the Sydney County Council on Monday…

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EDITORIAL (The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders’ Association, unless otherwise stated.) More White Coal for New South Wales

Construction · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1

The recent visit by the Minister for National Development, Mr. R. G. Casey, to the Upper Clarence River and his announcement that there was no reason why the Clarence River…

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Gold rush

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 9

RUSH. It's getting hard to find a spot along the creek bank at Wedderburn these days to wash dirt from claims since the gold boom started in the town. This picture-gram from Melbourne shows a group of prospectors at…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 6

Black Jack: To Mar. 3. treated 26 tons for 54oz bullion, value, £6l5 Cyanide, 144 tons for lOOoz. bullio[?] value £675…

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New Magazine for Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 4

The Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association distributed this week the first issue of "The Coal Miner"—a…

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Miners stay on the job

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 7

Miners at three Muswell-brook collieries decided today to work most of the day, instead of taking the whole…

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Tribunal Acts Against Miners' Paper

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 4

The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, yesterday decided to refer to the Commonwealth…

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Coal loss double this year

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 13

Coal losses from miners' strikes at 10 northern NSW coal mines for an eight weeks period this year were…

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Kaiser Causes Strike Protest By Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 4

The State coalmine at Lithgow was idle yesterday because the management refused to allow Dr. Thomas Kaiser, former Government-employed atomic scientist, to address a pit-top…

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Smaller Finds Wedderburn Gold Rush

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—More than 100 visitors to-day joined local prospectors in the frantic…

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N.s.w. Gold Yield Improves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 6

Production of gold in N.S.W. during January, at 5,467 oz. fine, showed an increase of 92 oz. compared with January, 1949…

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Hunt for fake gold con. man

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 14

ADELAIDE, Wed.--Adelaide C.I.B. has asked police in every State to keep a lookout for two men who duped a city gold…

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A Gold Rush Comes to Town

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 3

GATEWAY to Wedderburn, Victoria's gold-rush township. Hundreds of sightseers and new prospectors are converging on Wedderburn. Gold-seekers pegged out 36 new claims yesterday afternoon. Two more nuggets--valued about £70 and £10--were dug up in one of the town's streets yesterday…

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Loss of Coal Was Doubled by Stoppages

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

Coal lost through strikes by members of the Miners' Federation at a group of 10 collieries in the…

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Loss of Coal Was Doubled by Stoppages

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 2

Coal lost through strikes by members of the Miners' Federation at a group of 10 collieries in the…

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Loss of Coal Was Doubled by Stoppages

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

Coal lost through strikes by members of the Miners' Federation at a group of 10 collieries in the…

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