Main Title: |
A history of the Loy Yang mine : its origins and development to May 1997 / J.A. Vines. |
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Author: |
Vines, J. A. (Jack)
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Imprint: |
Melbourne : State Electricity Commission of Victoria, c2000. |
Collation: |
xiv, 436 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims, maps (some col., some folded), ports (some col.), hbk ; 30 cm. |
Subject: |
Loy Yang Power Station (Vic.) Victorian Brown Coal Council Coal mines and mining Power stations Loy Yang (Vic.) (Gunaikurnai Country)
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ISBN: |
0731181077 |
Notes: |
Contents include: Discovery and utilisation of brown coal in Victoria to the 1950s p3. The indigenous inhabitants of central Gippsland p3. Transition of squatters to central Gippsland 1841-1843 p3. Establishment of the Loy Yang run 1844 p4. Origin of the name Loy Yang p5. Early development of coal mining in Victoria 1826 onwards p5. Brown coal discovery 1857-1890 p5. Brown coal mining and utilisation 1800s to 1916 p7. The rest of the book concerns the mine itself.
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