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A coalfield often groups the seams of coal, railroad companies, cultural groups, and watersheds and other geographical considerations. At one time the coalfield designation was an important category in business and industrial discussions.
The majority of Sydney Basin is raised sandstone plateau, with the exception being the Hunter Valley and the low-lying Cumberland Plain.. Minor igneous activity took place in the basin during the Early Jurassic (i.e. 210 million years ago), Late Mesozoic (i.e. 100-90 million years ago) and Cenozoic eras (i.e. 65 million years ago).
The Oaklands Basin hosts to more than 1000 m thick sediments. The basin was first discovered in 1916 when water drillers discovered coal near Coorabin. Coal has been the main focus for exploration within the basin since this time. Extensive coal exploration drilling has been undertaken, mostly in the Coorabin area.
Mudgee (/ m ʌ dʒ i /) is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia.It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley 261 km (162 mi) north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area as well as being the council seat.
The Hunter–Bowen orogeny was a significant arc accretion event in the Permian and Triassic periods affecting approximately 2,500 km of the Australian continental margin.. The Hunter–Bowen orogeny occurred in two main phases: The first being Permian accretion of passive-marginal Devonian- and Carboniferous-age sediments, occurring in the Hunter region, as well as the mid-west region of what ...
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The coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales involved the shipping of coal—mainly for local consumption but also for export or coal bunkering—by sea to Sydney from the northern and southern coal fields of New South Wales. It took place in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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