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As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

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But Jubilee, south-west of Ballarat ... Victoria and Western Australia's ghost towns often rose and fell with those states' gold mining fortunes. In New South Wales and Queensland, railways ...

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Little remains of the original site, but the mining town of Bald Mountain has found its way into tall tales and fables throughout the past century. “There are those, however, who still cling to ...

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