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Conference Paper

Author
Cockbain, Peter
Title
The engineering history of coal loading in Newcastle New South Wales from 1790 to 2015
In
From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle]
Imprint
Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2015, pp. 34-44
ISBN/ISSN
9781922107435
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.696485963075989
Abstract

Newcastle, in Australia, was discovered nearly 220 years ago by Lt John Shortland in 1797. One of its salient values was coal, which was clearly in evidence along the cliff faces. From that time Newcastle has shipped coal initially to the settlement in Sydney until now when it exports in excess of 150 million tonnes of coal per year all over the world providing over 10 billion dollars of revenue to Australia. In that time many methods of loading coal have been used.

This paper provides a snapshot of the various methods used to load coal from the geographically diverse mines, initially in and around Newcastle and now from mines throughout the Hunter Valley and over 100 kilometres to the west.

More in-depth details of the various forms of coal loading can be found in the list of references at the end of this paper

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