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6 - Australia’s black coal industry

Past achievements and future challenges

from Part II - Case studies of key coal countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

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Bart Lucarelli
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Mark C. Thurber  and
Richard K. Morse
Mark C. Thurber
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Richard K. Morse
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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The Global Coal Market
Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
 , pp. 204 - 293
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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