In the historic mining town of Muswellbrook, on the Hunter river in northern New South Wales, mining might soon be history. BHP and Glencore, for decades the town’s major employers, have announced that they will wind down two enormous pits in the area within the next five years. Coal is becoming so expensive to get out of the ground that it is no longer profitable.
在新南威爾士(New South Wales)北部亨特河畔的歷史礦業小鎮馬斯韋爾布魯克，采礦業或許很快就將成為歷史。幾十年來一直是該鎮主要雇主的必和必拓(BHP)和嘉能可(Glencore)，已宣布將在未來五年內逐步關閉該地區的兩座大型礦坑。煤炭的開采成本變得如此之高，以至于已經不再具有盈利性。
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