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Conference Paper

Author
Pells, P.; Hammon, P.
Title
Infrastructure for coal and torbanite mining in the Jamison and Megalong Valleys, 1870 to 1900s
In
From the Past to the Future: 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference 2015 [Newcastle]
Imprint
Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2015, pp. 181-191
ISBN/ISSN
9781922107435
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.697119484098768
Abstract

Our story starts in Scotland, near Falkirk, where two completely separate things happened in the late 1700s, which later came together in New South Wales in a key industry that flourished in the Blue Mountains area between about 1870 and 1946, namely oil from torbanite.

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