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Mining & the mines, 1953

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Miners Race in Ore Boom

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 4

BATHURST (New Brunswick), Saturday. (Kemsley).-- Gamblers and geologists with university degrees are racing on snowshoes to stake their claims in Canada's latest gold…

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New Plan on Uranium Bid To Encourage Private Miners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government will increase the local price of uranium to encourage private development of the industry in the…

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France's K.O. King Started A Boxing Gold Rush Fights of the Golden Age

Truth · Sunday 22 March 1953 · page 31

The Sydney Stadium promoters struck gold in 1920. It came to them in big nuggets with the invasion of a team of French boxers, Andre Dupre, Francois Charles, Henri Demlen…

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Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 6

N. KALGURLI: Sept. 10 to Dec. 30. treated 74.292 tons for 18.435oz line; 655ft payable ore developed…

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Mine Dispute Talks Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Mon. -- The Northern Board of Management of the Miners' Federation will today hold…

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Mine Towns Compete at Concerts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 10

Agists from Lithgow grid Cessnock competed in the fifth heat of the Telegraph Top Town Contest last night…

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Gold, Copper Output Falls

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 28

Gold and copper production slumped heavily in New South Wales in January this year…

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Gold, Copper Output Falls

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Gold and copper production slumped heavily in New South Wales in January this year…

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Gold, Copper Output Falls

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Gold and copper production slumped heavily in New South Wales in January this year…

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Gold, Copper Output Falls

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Gold and copper production slumped heavily in New South Wales in January this year…

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Gold, Copper Output Falls

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Gold and copper production slumped heavily in New South Wales in January this year…

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Big Coal Loss in Idle Mines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- Twenty mines were idle today for a loss of 13,400 tons of urgently needed gas…

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Big Coal Loss in Idle Mines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- Twenty mines were idle today for a loss of 13,400 tons of urgently needed gas…

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Big Coal Loss in Idle Mines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tues. -- Twenty mines were Idle today for a loss of 13.400 tons of urgently needed gas…

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Big Coal Loss in Idle Mines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- Twenty mines were idle today for a loss of 13,400 tons of urgently needed gas…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 16

Nth. Deborah, 120 tons, 103 5z. 16dwt. Nth. Kalgurll (4 weeks), 18,823 tons, 4863oz…

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Engineers strike at 25 mines

The Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.--Engineers employed at mines on the South Maitland coalfields, at a stopwork…

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Cyclones, Rain on Two Coasts Towns isolated, mines flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 3

Cyclones and heavy rain yesterday hit Australia's east and west coasts. On the east coast floods isolated townships, washed away bridges, blocked roads and flooded coal-mines…

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Silt Lifts Coal Costs Gas users paying extra £100,000

The Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 7

Australian Gas Light Company's consumers, who comprise oyer four-fifths of Sydney's gas-users, are being forced to pay an unnecessary £100,000 a year because existing dredges are unable to cope with siltation in the…

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20 Mines Idle: Gas Coal Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The decision of an aggregate meeting of Amalgamated…

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