W.a. Opposition to Beach Mining
PERTH--Proposals to test WA beach sands for ilmenite, rutile and other minerals will be met with opposition from large numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining & the mines, 1957
83 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
Spot Light on Monopoly Public money feeds Mt Isa Mines
IS there any limit to the assistance given by Governments, at the people's expense, to millionaire Yankee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bellbird colliery to close down
SYDNEY: It is regarded as certain that Bellbird Colliery, a major coalmine in the NSW northern fields, will close in the next few weeks, a Miners' Federation official…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nationalise Coal Is Correct
PREMIER HAWKE'S statement that the Government would only give coal orders to two of the three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →USSR miners work shorter hours
REDUCED hours in coalmines--for which the Miners' Federation is agitating in Australia, as one counter to the coal industry crisis--is an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sackings cause stoppage at Scottville mine
BRISBANE: Mt. Isa Mines-controlled open cut coal mine at Scottville, in North Queensland, is idle over the sacking of four members of the Federated Engine Drivers' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners fight to save coal industry
SYDNEY: Mineworkers in the Western District are preparing for aggregate meetings which may be held next week. THE proposed meetings are to fight…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining Engineering Scholarship
It has been suggested that the School of Mining Engineering lacks class of the female variety. Therefore it has been decided…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle convention on coal crisis
SYDNEY: The crisis in the coal industry and ways of overcoming it, will be discussed at a People's Convention to be held in Newcastle Town Hall on April 13 and 14. THE Convention was initiated by the Miners' Federation which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →100 p.c. dividend from beach mining
BRISBANE -- Zircon Rutile Ltd., leader of the beach mining boom, will pay a dividend of 100 per cent for the December…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →People's Convention on Coal Crisis
SYDNEY: The big Coalfields Convention at Newcastle City Hall this weekend takes place almost on the eve of the hearing by the Coal Industry Tribunal of the coal owners' log of claims…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Spot Light on Monopoly There's gold in governing
NEW YORK: Dr. Evatt is reported to have told the Brisbane Federal Conference of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners fight for safety
You've learned to know the miner -- the "black" man, the "slack" man, But come with me below ground amid the sweat and stress, And watch him at his hard work, his drill work, his skilled work;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Convention puts coal onus on Menzies
NEWCASTLE: The Menzies Government's attempts to evade responsibility…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cahill asked to lead deputation on coal crisis
SYDNEY: Following the People's Convention on the Coal Crisis, held in Newcastle, the Convening Committee of the Convention will be strengthened to implement the decisions reached…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Lump of Qld. Goes to Mt. Isa Mines
PROSPECTING rights over 1920 square miles in the Gladstone-Bundaberg area in central Queensland have been handed to US-controlled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News from the French Union Mining of Bauxite Deposits in Guinea
T3ie Boke region of north Guinea becoming a large industrial area as result of both the discovery and mining of large bauxite deposits in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Fight Dismissals
BRISBANE: Some 300 miners moved in a body through Brisbane streets last Wednesday with deputations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Handout to Monopolies
Coalminers throughout New South Wales are seething with discontent about their treatment by a Joint Coal Board subsidiary, Coal Mines Insurance Pty. Ltd. THIS company is the only…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Biggest clash ever" Miners' leader warns on double shifts
"Attempts to introduce double shifts and other attacks on our conditions will lead to one of the biggest clashes in the history of the coal industry," Miners' Federation…
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