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Mining & the mines, 1953

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Supplies of Gas Coal Are Near Danger Level

The Sun · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 9

Gas coal stocks in Sydney and Melbourne were approaching danger level, Joint Coal Board industrial officer W. S. Winning told Coal…

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Gas Coal Stocks Low; Posit Ion, Is "Dangerous"

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 12

Gas rationing might be imposed in Melbourne in the next few days and Sydney's gas coal stocks were at a dangerous level, the Coal Industry…

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Coal Loaded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Friday.— The collier Ayrfield arrived from Sydney this afternoon and is expected to leave…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 18

Freeburgh (F night), 18,600 yds., 54oz. Wellington (April): 273,000 yds,. 1021oz…

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Australian Show Skill at Worcester Tour Opening May Change to Beat 'Gold Conditions

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 11

LONDON, Sat. (Kemsley)--The tradition of opening cricket tours of England at the pleasant country centre of Worcester may be abandoned. Overseas teams…

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Sydney Mine Sold for £40,000

The Sun · Sunday 10 May 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY will soon be seeing the last of one of its best known landmarks -- Balmain…

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The Sunday Sun Investors' Guide Gold Fever in Hill 50 Shares

The Sun · Sunday 10 May 1953 · page 51

SHARES in Hill 50 Gold have captured the imagination of the more speculative section of the Australian Stock Exchanges. They are the talk of the…

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Coal dispute hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Mon. --Following a compulsory conference here today, new hopes are held out for the settlement of the Millfield- Greta colliery dispute which has threatened…

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Coal dispute hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--Following a compulsory conference here today, new hopes are held out for the settlement of the Millfield- Greta colliery dispute which has threatened…

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Coal dispute hope

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Mon. --Following a compulsory conference here today, new hopes are held out for the settlement of the Millfield- Greta colliery dispute which has threatened…

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Report on Mine Strike

The Sun · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 7

Six-weeks-old strike at John Darling mine, which touched off a wave of strikes, endangering, gas…

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Balmain mine plans secret

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 11

A Sydney businessman yesterday said he had found an industrial use for Balmain Colliery. But he would not…

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More losses in gas-coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Mon.-- Twenty mines are idle today on the northern field for a loss of 14,980 tons…

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News From Northern Districts Miners Approve Medical Scheme

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Mon.--Miners lodges on the northern fields have unanimously approved a federation proposal to institute a medical scheme. The scheme was proposed…

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13 Killed in rioting on Gold Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

Accra (Gold Coast), Mon. (B.U.P.).--It is now known that 13, including Police Superintendent…

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13 Killed in rioting on Gold Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

Accra (Gold Coast), Mon. (B.U.P.).--It is now known that 13, including Police Superintendent…

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.13 Killed in rioting on Gold Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 5

Accra (Gold Coast), Mon. (B.U.P.).--It is now known that 13, including Police Superintendent…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 21

Kalgoorlie Enterprise (four weeks): 4436 tons; 1417oz. Cock's Eldorado (four weeks): 162,800yds.. gold and tin cones…

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Mine "methods of violence"

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 2

It appeared that with the current wave of strikes on the New South Wales coalfields, the Miners' Federation was using the means of industrial violence, the Coal Industry…

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Russian Miners to Tour Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, May 11 (A.A.P.). — Four Soviet miners arrived in London yesterday for a tou of South…

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