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Mining & the mines, 1952

3,110 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 156

12 Miners Entombed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 6

BERLIN, Wed. (A.P.). --Rescuers are digging frantically to free 12 coalminers who are…

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15 Miners Killed

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

OSLO, Wed. (A.P.). --Fifteen Norwegian workers were killed and one was injured by explosions on…

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Bulolo Gold Output

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 11

Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. reports that value of gold mined during the six months ended November…

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Bulolo Gold Output

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 11

Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. reports that value of gold mined during the six months ended November…

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Coal Bonanza Made History

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 2

How South Australia's Leigh Creek turned out to be a coal bonanza in a critical time of…

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Boilermakers Strike At Mt. Isa Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Boilermakers employed at Mount Isa mines decided at a meeting to-night to go on…

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Austral N.Z. to cease mining operations

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 19

Directors of Austral New Zealand Mining Ltd., have decided to cease operations at…

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Unusual coal movement

The Sun · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-- Coal export from Newcastle in the past three weeks has been…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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12 in Mine Rescue

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

BERLIN, Thursday (B.U.P.). -- Twelve men who were entombed in a mine explosion at…

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Less gold produced

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 20

Australia produced 72,556 fine ounces of gold valued at £A1,124,016 during October, compared with 79,616…

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Teachers sought cash as miners

The Sun · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

"Many valuable teachers have left the service and become coalminers in order to earn more money," the Australian Teachers' Federation Conference was…

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U.s. Expert for Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 9

An American coal mining engineer arrived in Sydney yesterday to report on New South Wales open-cut coalmines…

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To Cease Mining

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 20

Austral N.Z. Mining, Ltd., will cease mining on January 31, at Cromwell, on the…

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He'll study our coal

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 4

MR. OTIS BLEDSOE, an American coal export, with his wife at Mascot yesterday after they arrived from America. Mr. Bledsoe is in Australia to report on open-cut coal mines in New…

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