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Telford Cut

Italy

Telford Cut was an open-cut coal mine, now closed, in the Leigh Creek Coalfield in South Australia. For the 72 years between its opening in 1943 and its closure, the mine supplied sub-bituminous coal to fire power stations first in Adelaide then, from 1954, Port Augusta. Production ceased in Novembe

r 2015 but stockpiled product was transported to Port Augusta until the last power station closed down in May 2016.

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