Company Description
In the middle of the 19th Century coal was the only fuel which could support large scale industrial development. The Governor of the impoverished Swan River settlement in
G Coal Miningstern Australia offered a reward in 1839 of 2,560 acres of land for the location of "any considerable bed of coal".Â
Seven years later, the explorer A C Gregory claimed the reward after discovering the Irwin River coal seam 200 miles north of Perth.