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Mining & the mines, 1953

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Other Cable Items: Gold Coast Plans Independence Moves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 3

LONDON, June 21 (A.A.P.).—The Gold Coast Government yesterday published a White Paper setting…

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Growing mining town will be Austn. city of tomorrow It Dominates the Mt. Isa Skyline Looking at Australia -- II

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 9

This is the first of two articles on Mount Isa, the rapidly expanding lead-zinc-copper mining town in north-western…

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Strikes Cause Loss Of Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 7

Forty-three coalmines and three railway sidings handling coal were idle in New South Wales yesterday…

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8 Mines idle-- 5000 tons loss

The Sun · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 13

All except eight mines worked in NSW today, output being cut by only 5000 tons…

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Millions of tons of coal at stake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tues.-- Colliery proprietors and mining industry employees are keenly interested in a demonstration of stowage machinery to be held at Richmond Main…

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Millions of tons of coal at stake

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 24

NEWCASTLE, Tues.--Colliery proprietors and mining industry employees are keenly interested in a demonstration of stowage machinery to be held at Richmond Main…

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Extension of Gas Strike Feared Seamen May Be Asked To Stop Coal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 4

Gas companies fear the strike of gas employees may spread to the Seamen's Union. This would cut off supplies of coal…

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Extension of Gas Strike Feared Seamen May Be Asked To Stop Coal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 4

Gas companies fear the strike of gas employees may spread to the Seamen's Union. This would cut off supplies of cool…

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Extension of Gas Strike Feared Seamen May Be Asked To Stop Coal

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 4

Gas companies fear the strike of gas employees may spread to the Seamen's Union. This mould cat off supplies of coal…

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They see rich future in the greenish flame of the copper furnaces Mining world watches Mt. Isa grow

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 9

MT. ISA MINE is something of a mineralogical freak. In the full tide of its career as a producer of…

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Gold Yield

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 18

Northern Star (Tennant Creek) Gold Mines Ltd. (four weeks to May 20): 1187 tons of ore treated for…

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Gold Yield

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 18

Northern Star (Tennant Creek) Gold Mines Ltd. (four weeks to May 20): 1187 tons of ore treated for…

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Large Coal Exports

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 1

The Minister for National Development, Senator W. H. Spooner, announced recently that the Joint Coal Board had…

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Coal for Korea

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 1

The first of 13 ships to start loading 100,000 tons of coal for Korea is now loading at Newcastle…

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Newcastle Coal Shipments Down

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 1

Coal shipments from Newcastle for the week ending June 13 were below average. During that week 64,150 tons…

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John Darling miners win wide support

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 11

Unanimous mass support has been decided upon by aggregate meetings of miners throughout the Northern District of the Miners’ Federation for the men at John Darling, at present on strike against the…

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Changed Outlook For Mining

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 8

Prices for most base metals were now far below those a year ago, and the present trend, allied with the ever rising cost of production must cause…

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War drive leads to coal crisis

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 10

“The picture of lowered living standards for the people, as a result of the war drive in conditions of developing economic crisis, is revealed in the official estimates of coal requirements.”…

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Darling Mine Dispute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 June 1953 · page 7

The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, yesterday reserved his decision on the John Darling…

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Stop Press Mine Strike

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 June 1953 · page 40

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.-- A demonstration of king stowage machinery to be held at Richmond Main colliery near Kurri Kurri, today…

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