BRITISH COAL SUPPLIES.
— ♦ • CONTROVERSY AS TO THEIR DURATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 17. An interesting newspaper controversy is proceeding between Sir William Ramsay and Dr. Wilson (president o£ tho Association of Mining Engineers). The latter alleges that the British coal supply will endure for six hundred years, whereas Sir William Ramsay, in his presidential address to the British Association recently predicted that British coal at the present rato of working would bo exhausted in 173 years.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1236, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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77BRITISH COAL SUPPLIES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1236, 19 September 1911, Page 5
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