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Mining & the mines, 1950

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Coal From Africa

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 1

Within the next six months 300,000 tons of coal will be shipped from South Africa to Victoria and South Australia…

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Adjournment of Mine Hearing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Tues.--The Coal industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today adjourned the hearing in Newcastle of the…

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Enough coal for Easter

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 20

Despite heavy production losses in open cuts through floods, a spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said today…

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Loss for Gold Co

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 26

Mt. Charlotte (Kalgoorlie) Gold Mines, Ltd., lost £stg.2589 for the year ended August 31, 1949…

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Remand on gold fraud charge

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Alleged to have obtained £2300 from an Adelaide jeweller on the security of 12…

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Hydro power, and gold, too

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 15

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tues.--New Zealand hopes to get a £17,000,000 hydro-electric scheme without cost to the taxpayers. Next year engineers will divert the Clutha River as…

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Editorial Any Man's Language for the Miners

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 2

It is refreshing to find the Joint Coal Board talking to coalminers in a simple, direct language of everyday arithmetic and hard fact. To every mineworker in the State, the Coal Board…

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U.K. gold, dollar reserve increases

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Stafford Cripps) said today that Britain's gold and dollar reserves rose by 296,000,000 dollars…

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Gold Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

NORSEMAN: Four weeks to Mar. 28. Railed 1,064 tons crushed selected ore and 2,027 tons concentrates; sulphur content, 1,233 dry tons: value, £16,325…

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All northern mines on job

The Sun · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 2

All northern coalmines and all southern pits, except Metropolitan, where there is a long-standing dispute,…

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Cuthbert's ends mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 26

Cuthbert's Misima Goldmine, N.L., has stopped mining. Directors say that applications for debentures fell far…

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Vic. Train Uses Brown Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —A locomotive burning pulverised brown coal successfully hauled a country passenger…

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Output of Coal Board Estimate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 4

A Joint Coal Board spokesman said last night that potential production of coal in New South Wales each week was…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1950 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Wellington Alluvials, 225,000yds., including 1000yds. tailings, 759oz. Dredging suspended from March 30 because of flooded paddock…

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Mining Suspended

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 April 1950 · page 13

Hercules Gold Mining Co., NL., has stopped mining, and is bringing all underground equipment to the surface…

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MISCELLANEOUS If in doubt about any of the multitude of general questions that crop up from time to time, consult "The Land." Gold Tinsel

The Land · Friday 7 April 1950 · page 31

Can any reader suggest a method to restore the color of a gold tinsel material which a correspondent states, has tarnished badly?…

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British Coal Up

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1950 · page 6

LONDON.-- British coal miners in February maintained the increase recorded in January with a total output of…

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Ferrier in Gold Lead

Daily Mirror · Saturday 8 April 1950 · page 12

AUGUSTA (Georgia), Saturday. -- Jim Ferrier chipped his way into the lead in the Masters' Tournament…

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Then said: "There's gold in that thar street." Another rush to Wedderburn starts

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 April 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Rumors of another gold strike at Wedderburn have caused a new rush of prospectors. The story is that two men from Korong Vale,…

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