Private Coal
Private Coal. A mining company that has just bought four deep mines from British Coal, in January 1995. Almost all your coal goes to two power station…
The pits are private again. The power stations want gas.
A mining company that has just bought four deep mines from British Coal, in January 1995. Almost all your coal goes to two power station companies on contracts that end in 1998, and they are building gas-fired stations as fast as they can. The miners who stayed through the closures of 1992 want to know if there is a future.
- Starts
- January 1995
- Length
- three years
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Scored on
- Trade profitably for 20 months
- Business
- Colliery
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