Unlike the AusWest mill, which burns its sawdust, Jamieson's mill sends it to the Sydney brickworks for furnaces and brick glazing.
Brown coal coke is not suited to some blast furnaces but the electric arc furnace market will provide strong demand, he says.
Not only did the sulphur fumes kill off plants in the area but the eleven furnaces required vast quantities of timber and the mining company simply cut down.
