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Mining & the mines, 1950

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Miners 9 Lives Endangered By Machines

Tribune · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 6

In defiance of Government regulations and with complete disregard for heightened danger to human life, the coal owners have been granted the right to machines in pillars…

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GOLD Take Your Pick! All That Glisters Is Not Streets are Payed With In Them Their Hills! Is Where You Finf It! Rush!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 32

THIS gold rush at Wedderburn, in Victoria, is likely to revive the good old days of Ballarat and Bendigo, with all which that implies. Well, what does it imply, anyhow?…

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Hundreds Search for Gold Outback (Rains expose "pay-dirt")

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 18

Hundreds of amateur prospectors are fossicking for gold in outback New South Wales. They have been encouraged by the…

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Wedderburn Could Mean a Gold Rush By a Special Corespondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 2

OLD prospectors agree that the gold strike which has produced some big nuggets in Wedderburn, Victoria, could be…

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This Wide World Believe Bill Beatty This Australia Paved with Gold Islam in Adelaide Aerial Kangaroo

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 11

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Miners' official denies report

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 6

General secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant), today denied a report in The Sun on Saturday…

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Five Northern Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 7

Five large northern mines are idle today, entailing a loss of 7500 tons, and production today is expected to reach only about…

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Five Northern Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 7

Five large northern mines are idle today entailing a loss of 7500 tons, and production today expected to reach only about…

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Five Northern Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 7

Five large northern mines are idle today, entailing a loss of 7500 tons, and production today is expected to reach only about…

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Five Northern Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 7

Five large northern mines are idle today, entailing a loss of 7500 tons, and production today is expected to reach only about…

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Five Northern Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 7

Five large northern mines are idle today, entailing a loss of 7500 tons, and production today is expected to reach only about…

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Soldier killed by land mine

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 2

A young soldier was killed instantly when a land-mine exploded in a trench at the artillery…

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Mines Idle Over Pillar Decision

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 9

Three Northern mines, producing 5000 tons of coal daily, were idle today, because of protests by mine-workers…

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Plenty of easy-to-get coal left in our mines Pillars could save us from winter blackouts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 8

LAST Thursday the Coal Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher) authorised mechanical…

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Woman's Reply Left Him Gold

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 1

STOCKHOLM, Monday.-- An elderly woman shopkeeper who threw a bucket Z of cold wate rover a young…

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There's Gold in That Thar Pit

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 6

George Webster (left), and f Rex Chapman scraping at the end of a gold reef they discovered in Wedderburn. It…

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Talks By MLA.S On Pillar Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 3

Last week's decision of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher), authorising mechanical extraction of pillar coal…

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SEVEN M.L.As. to Talk on Pillar Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 11

Seven Labor M.L.As. representing coalfields electorates Will tomorrow discuss mechanical extraction of coal pillars in mines…

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Coal Surplus

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 9

KENVIR (Ky.).--The coal shortage held no terrors for Lige Pope. When two trucks loaded with coal collided, one…

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Fire Feared in Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Monday.—Because of a danger of fire the management of Bellbird colliery has decided to seal off a…

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