Coal future ‘small’
The president of the Private Coalmine Proprietors’ Association (Mr M. J. Walker) predicted that coal mining in the future, with a few exceptions, would remain small-scale. This would be particularly true of private mining, he told the seminar. The main constraints on the industry were the smallness and fragmentation of most coal deposits
and the smallness of the domestic market, he said. Even with another coalfired power station, one large-scale mine could provide' enough coal for the needs of the entire New Zealand market.
Only coal liquefication, coal exports; or similar new large-scale use represented realistic propositions for large-scale mining
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Press, 14 August 1980, Page 22
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