COAL

The Hunter's coal inertia

The rapid industrialisation of a nearby neighbour is cause for celebration if you have the required resources to fuel it. Beware, though, of having too many cooks in the kitchen.

Andrew Snelling
The end of the mining boom has led to some shifts in the Hunter Valley economy.

The end of the mining boom has led to some shifts in the Hunter Valley economy.

As China ramped up its demand for resources to fuel its building and energy needs in the mid to late 2000s, the Hunter Valley’s coal industry raced to catch up.    Expansions of existing mines were joined...

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