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Selling, carrying, bringing, or taking coal(s) to Newcastle is an idiom of British origin describing a pointless action. [1] It refers to the fact that, historically, the economy of Newcastle upon Tyne in north-eastern England was heavily dependent on the distribution and sale of coal and therefore any attempt to sell coal to Newcastle would be foolhardy as supply would be greater there than ...
An empty coal train heads west through Maitland bound for the coal mines. The Hunter Valley Coal Chain (HVCC) is the chain of coal delivery in New South Wales, Australia from (mainly open-cut) coal mines in the Hunter Region to the Port of Newcastle and domestic coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley.
The Pennine Coal Measures Group ... of the region's rivers being blocked by North Sea ice at one time. ... 1:50,000 scale geological map series sheets (England and ...
Coals from Newcastle: an introduction to the Northumberland and Durham Coalfield (Second ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. ISBN 978-1-7399993-1-5.
The site was mothballed in 2015 due to low coal prices. [7] Celtic Energy now only operates only the expanded East Pit. Nant Llesg. Miller Argent planned to extract 6m tonnes of coal at Nant Llesg, near Rhymney. Their application was rejected by Caerphilly county borough council on 7 August 2015. [32] The company is considering an appeal. [33]
The lower Ouseburn was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in Newcastle. [1] There was a cluster of heavy crafts and industries in the area. Coal was brought from the Town Moor along the Victoria Tunnel, where the tidal nature of the Ouseburn allowed wherries – the local barges – to be loaded at low tide and pulled out to the collier brigs and snows waiting in the Tyne.
The coal reserves have now been largely exhausted and the two pits - Coronation & North Walbottle - have long since closed. After the extraction of 21.5 million tons of coal, the North Walbottle pit was closed in 1968 as further coal extraction would have risked undermining the runway of Newcastle airport , which lies about 5 miles to the North.
The port was the first commercial export port in Australia and is the world's busiest coal export port. Annual exports of coal from Newcastle exceeded A$15 billion in 2012–13. Newcastle berthed more than 2,200 ships a year in 2012–13. [5] The port's harbourmaster is the Port Authority of New South Wales.