Hunter coal leads to moon and back
MORE than one billion tonnes of raw coal have been stripped from the Hunter in the past decade, handing the State Government a $3.1 billion silver lining.
Stacked in cubic metres, that's enough coal to wrap around the Earth's equator 27.7 times.
University of NSW head of mathematics and statistics Anthony Dooley has confirmed the calculation.
He said the colossal coal pile would reach the moon and back, fill 341,000 olympic swimming pools, two Sydney Harbours and 13,400 coal ships.
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