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Blair Athol distillery is a Highland single malt Scotch whisky distillery located on the south edge of Pitlochry in Perthshire, near the River Tummel in Scotland. It is used in Bell's whisky , and is also normally available in a 12-year-old bottling.
Blair Athol was closed by former owners Rio Tinto in 2012 and bought in 2014 by New Emerald Coal. TerraCom acquired the Blair Athol mine in 2016 through its subsidiary Orion Mining for just $1 from the Rio Tinto-managed Blair Athol Coal joint venture (BACJV), which had previously paid the Queensland Government nearly $80 million for ...
Comyn's Road A section of the road around 1.75 miles northwest of Old Blair, Perth and Kinross Namesake Clan Cumming (Clan Comyn) Length 27 mi (43 km) Location Perth and Kinross and Highland, Scotland Construction Completion 13th century Comyn's Road is an ancient roadway in Scotland, linking Blair Atholl in Perth and Kinross and Ruthven, Badenoch, in the Highlands. Named for Clan Cumming ...
The Blair Athol Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland, Australia. It is located over the former site of the township of Blair Athol. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 195 million tonnes of thermal coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of ...
A branch was built from |Emerald to Clermont in 1884 and extended to Blair Athol in 1910. A branch line was opened from Emerald to Springsure in 1887. Another branch line was completed between Jericho and Blackall in 1908 and extended to Yaraka in 1917. A heavy-haul railway line was built from Blackwater to the coal fields at Laleham in 1970.
Blair Athol is located about 6 km (4 mi) north of the Adelaide CBD, South Australia.Blair Athol borders the suburbs of Gepps Cross, Enfield, Prospect and Kilburn.The suburb is rectangular, stretching from Grand Junction Road in the north to Angwin Avenue in the south between Prospect Road on the west and Main North Road on the east.
Blair Athol Provisional School opened on 6 November 1893. It became a State School in 1909. [5] [6] Blair Athol Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1910) and closed in 1966. [7] On 18 May 1922, the Queensland Governor Matthew Nathan officially opened Australia's first open cut mine at Blair Athol. [8]
John Kidd, a Scotsman, built the original Blair Athol homestead in 1879. He named it after the village of Blair Atholl in Scotland. The following year he became the area's member of parliament, a position he held until 1904. In 1945, the land was sold to an engineering company who planned to build a factory in the area.