Secret Uranium Mine Near Townsville?
Franco-German consortium Minetome Ltd may have secretly constructed a uranium mine in secluded bushland 67 kilometres from Townsville, although they only have an authority…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining & the mines, 1979
45 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
Coal more dangerous?
I read with great interest your article "Harrisburg: a hard rain for Pennsylvania". The question one should ask is what is the safest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Telfer Miners Win Better Conditions and Allowances
PORT HEDLAND: Workers at the Newmont company's Telfer gold mine in Western Australia's north have won…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Who's Really Running Australia P.H. Sleigh-black-gold fleecer
"Australia has always thought of itself as a highly sophisticated workforce, which it is not. There has been a tendency to breed over-expectation, but the fact is that not every one can…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners and Aborigines Australia's first nuclear victims
The 34th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) is a good time to think about present and potential victims of radioactivity at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining claims 14 more dead
The Southern coalfields are mourning fourteen miners killed instantly at BHP's Appin Colliery by an explosion of methane gas. Appin has always been a "gassy" pit and recently workers struck for two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal, Asbestos. Uranium Mining -- Legacy of Death
The tragic coal mine disaster (July 24) at Appin Colliery in NSW shows again how mineworkers are totally exposed to constant danger in this particular industry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Win on Safety
Miners at Brimstone colliery about 80 kilometres from Sydney have won a struggle on safety with the mine's owner British Petroleum. Their win is important for other mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Brief Another mine death
Gunnedah: Another mine fatality took place last week when a mineworker fell on a conveyor belt and was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government rejects uranium mining ADELAIDE: The South Australian government is standing firm against uranium mining despite new attempts by business interests and conservative politicians to force its development
Big foreign and local companies, such as Western Mining Corporation (WMC), are pushing the campaign. At the same time, new multinational interests are moving into uranium. British Petroleum recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal strike
Wollongong: Three hundred Huntley colliery workers are in the third week of a strike against the State Electricity Commission over…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thirty years on THE 1949 Coal Strike
Thirty years ago, prime minister Ben Chifley broadcast to the nation on Sunday, August 14 to say that the miners' strike was crushed after 48 days…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Coal strike continues
Wollongong: Huntley colliery Workers are entering the fifth week of their bonus dispute with the State Electricity Commission. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Consolidated Goldfields Put More on Dole
Geraldton: Consolidated Goldfields announces it will sack 77 workers from its Eneabba sand mining operation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More miners killed
Newcastle: Two 50:year old coal miners were killed when hit by an underground locomotive last Wednesday at Newvale colliery. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nymboida Miners Made History
When Nymboida mineworkers turned up at that small northern NSW colliery for the first day of their first work-in early on a February morning in 1975, neither they nor…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →“Mine the asteroids” technocrats are optimistic and say
TO CONSTRUCT any large structures in space, such as permanent habitats or Solar Power Satellites, would cost billions of dollars. Recent…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Falling Foul of Mining Companies
WYNDHAM: Jan Roberts and Lyn McLeavy were arrested here last week after visiting Oombulgurri Aboriginal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →...And miners won't cop the waste
BROKEN HILL: The Barrier District of the Miners Federation strongly condemns the South Australian Liberal government's plan to dump Roxby Downs radioactive waste at Radium Hill near Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Club
The Australian coal industry is owned and controlled by a maze of interlocking companies…
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