Utilisation of Coal Slack.
DUNEDIN, Setember 14.
The Green Island lignite industry is likely to receive a great impetus by a scheme formulated by the local collieries, to erect a powerful electrical plant on the coalfield, which will supply mining companies and kindred industries. around Dunedin with power. It is proposed to utilise the slack, hitherto buried as waste, to generate the power. If the scheme is successfully developed — which seems practically assured — thousands of tons of slack in abandoned workings will be profitably employed, besides which its use is calculated to improve "mine conditions as regards the minimising of the risk of spontaneous combustion.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12567, 14 September 1908, Page 5
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105Utilisation of Coal Slack. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12567, 14 September 1908, Page 5
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