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Mining & the mines, 1953

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34 Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Monday. --There was a loss of 15,500 tons of high grade gas coal on the northern…

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34 Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE; Monday. --There was a loss of 15,500 tons of high grade gas coal on the northern…

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34 Mines Idle

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE,. Monday. --There was a loss of 15,500 tons of high grade gas coal on the northern…

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Evidence on coal contract

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 2

The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran) told the Doyle Royal Commission…

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Calwell talks of racket in coal handling

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 20

Indications were that a big coal-handling racket was operating in Sydney, the Acting…

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Sands of Desert Run Cold on Gold

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 8

LONDON, Mon. -- Councillor Stanley Hobbs (Folkestone) has often thought of what he could do with that £1000 he won at crown and-anchor from the Australians at Ismailia…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Seven mines were idle on the northern coalfields today for a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday -- Seven mines were idle on the northern coalfields today for a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Seven mines were idle on the northern coalfields today for a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.-- Seven mines were idle on the northern coalfields today for a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday, -- Seven minutes were idle on the northern coalfields today fnr a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday, -- Seven minues were idle on the northern coalfields today fnr a total…

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Seven Mines Stop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Seven mines were idle on the northern coalfields today fnr a total…

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Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 6

ELDORADO (T.C.): Three weeks to June 3, treated 743 tons for 343oz bullion. Production was affected by a power failure…

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Coal Losses Smaller

The Sun · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 5

Coal output loss today dropped to 5700 tons, with eight mines idle, compared with yesterday's…

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Wiluna Gold to Close Down

The Sun · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 27

Wiluna Gold Mines, Ltd., will close down finally next month. On July 3. shareholders will…

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Pressure on Contract Denied Witness Queried Over Pike's Gully Mine

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 5

The managing director of the North South West Mining Co. Pty. Ltd. (Mr. A. W. Welch) told the Doyle Royal Commission today he did not receive any direct or indirect pressure from the former Minister for Mines (Mr…

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Coal for Singapore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 17 June 1953 · page 1

The Japanese motorship Tosho Maru (6,813 tons gross) loaded coal at Newcastle early this month for Singapore…

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Sydney Shivers in Gold

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 June 1953 · page 3

Sydney shivered last night in the coldest spell since last winter. The overnight minimum dropped to 43.2 degrees at 7.15 a.m.--11 degrees above…

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Coal Siding Men in Sympathy Stoppage

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 June 1953 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--Men at two of the biggest coal-loading sidings in the north stopped work today in sympathy with striking miners at John Darling colliery…

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