Grassy Mountain Coal Project

The open-pit mine is projected to produce 93 million tons during its 25-year lifespan. It would be located on 6,918 acres about seven kilometres north of Blairmore in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. The new mine would be located on a legacy coal-mining area. It is projected the facility would take 21 months to construct. In June 2021, a review panel for …

Interactive map of coal resources in Alberta

Alberta Energy (a ministry of the Government of Alberta) provides an interactive map with basic information on coal resources in Alberta. The map includes: Coal mines (split into sub-bituminous, bituminous, and in …

Coal Mine Trail, Alberta, Canada

Coal Mine Trail. Try this 3.0-mile out-and-back trail near Kananaskis Improvement, Alberta. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 47 min to complete. This is a popular trail for birding and hiking, but you can still enjoy some solitude during quieter times of day. The best times to visit this trail are ...

Alberta Mine Map — Careers in Coal

Alberta Mine Map — Careers in Coal. Tweet. Permitted and/or Operating. 1. Gregg River, operated by Westmoreland and located in Alberta's historic Coal Branch on the Eastern …

Vista Coal Mine Project, Alberta

Coalspur's Vista coal project is located near Hinton in Alberta, Canada. It is one of the largest undeveloped coal mines in North America. Spread over an area of 9,984ha, the project is estimated to have a mine life of 30 years. In January 2012, Coalspur completed a bankable feasibility study (BFS) for the project.

Top active coal mines in Canada | Mining & Energy

These are the top active coal mines currently operating in Canada: Cardinal River Operations. Location : 42 kilometres south of Hinton, Alberta. Owner: Teck. Annual production: 2 million tonnes. Cardinal River produces metallurgical coal to be used in steelmaking, exporting to the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Grande Cache locals question new Alberta Rockies coal mine …

In Alberta's Rocky Mountains, an Australian-owned coal mine is quietly forging ahead. Grande Cache locals were surprised to hear Mine 14 — exempt from Alberta's pause on coal mining in the Rockies — is poised to start digging. By Trina Moyles. Photography by Darrel Comeau. May 25, 2023 12 min. read.

Coal Valley Mine

The Coal Valley Mine is a 20,660-hectare surface mine located south of Edson in Western Central Alberta. The mine has a nominal capacity of 3.0 million tons of annual production for thermal coal export. Given its location in the province's prized Foothills region at the junction of the Rocky Mountains and boreal forests, Coal Valley's ...

Bankhead Ghost Town

The CPR thus formed the Pacific Coal Company, which began coal mining operations in Bankhead, Alberta in 1903. The town of Bankhead, Alberta grew around the Pacific Coal Company mine. By all accounts, Bankhead was a thriving town of nearly 1,000 inhabitants, enjoying many modern luxuries such as municipal water supply, a sewer …

About coal | Alberta.ca

Alberta coal. Alberta's coal mining started in the late 1800s. Coal was the energy source that boosted the industrial revolution of the 19th century and launched the electric era in the following century. It was the primary source of energy until the late 1960s when it was overtaken by oil. Coal still supplies just over a third of global ...

Looking for a lump of coal in Alberta? This mine is your last …

Radio Active 8:32 The future of coal in Alberta. We get a tour of the last coal mine that sells to the general public in Alberta. This winter, when CBC News visited the mine, a customer bought ...

Vista Coal Mine

The Vista Coal Mine is now owned by Bighorn Mining Ltd. [4] The operation is a truck and shovel mine expected to produce 1.5 Mt in 2019, with 5.5 in 2020, ramping up to 7.0 Mt by 2021. [5] The capacity is expandable up to 12 million tons per year in the second phase. The second phase is planned to be funded through the cash flows …

When Is a Killed Alberta Coal Mine Really Dead?

How can an Australian open-pit coal mining project unequivocally denied by a joint review panel as well as two courts of appeal still be regarded as an "advanced coal project" by Alberta regulators?. That's the surreal question bedevilling lawyers and hundreds of thousands of Albertans firmly opposed to any open-pit coal mines in the …

Alberta's energy regulator accepts new coal mine …

Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the …

Coal

1971. The Energy Resources Conservation Board, now known as the Alberta Energy Regulator, established a Coal department in late 1971. Using the geological data from old mines and data submitted by coal exploration companies, the coal reserves were calculated in the coal fields and coal deposits throughout Alberta.

Regulator investigates Alberta coal mine after worker nearly …

CST Group, based in Hong Kong, bought the mine in 2017 after the previous owner went bankrupt. (Istock) Alberta's energy regulator is examining practices at a coal mine in the province after three ...

Geoview

Geoview - Alberta Energy. This application uses licensed Geocortex Essentials technology for the Esri ® ArcGIS platform.

Coal | Alberta.ca

Alberta Energy and Minerals encourages the responsible development of the province's extensive coal deposits through planning and liaison with government, industry and …

Alberta's energy regulator accepts new coal mine …

Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the province's southern Rocky Mountains that has already been turned down twice.

Alberta regulator probes mine wall 'instabilities' after …

CST Coal is owned by CST Group, which is based in Hong Kong and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. It bought the mine in 2017 from the receiver after the previous owner, Grande Cache Coal, went bankrupt. The mine is both open-pit and underground, company documents say. It mines steelmaking coal, most of which is …

The inside story of an Alberta coal mine devastated by a …

Alberta coal mining company spiralled following death of American billionaire investor. The Vista thermal coal mine describes itself in court documents as "one of the most significant employers in the Hinton and Edson regions of Alberta," has a mining footprint of nearly 1,500 hectares and the capacity to produce roughly 6.5 million tonnes ...

Alberta coal policy changes trigger joint lawsuit from coal …

In 2020, the Alberta government. opened up mountains to more mining. but. reversed course. on that decision two years later. Claims from the individual coal companies have been filed in the months ...

Alberta coal test mine proceeds without necessary permits, …

Environmental groups are asking Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without fisheries permits that officials have said are ...

Answers to questions about Alberta's coal …

Opposition to open-pit mining is starting to gain traction months after the Alberta government cancelled a decades old coal policy preventing development of land on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.

When Is a Killed Alberta Coal Mine Really Dead? | The Tyee

That order specifically directed the Alberta Energy Regulator that no new coal mining activities or applications will be permitted on Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 lands as defined in Alberta's 1976 Coal ...

How Alberta's Vista coal mine came back from the brink

The Vista mine produces thermal coal, burned for electricity, for export to international markets like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Canada and Alberta have …

Coal mine supporters hope 'little window' with new premier …

Schmidt pointed to the work of Alberta's panel on coal policy committee, which received more than 1,000 emailed documents and 170 written submissions, most opposing open-pit coal mines in the ...

ST45: Operating and Abandoned Coal Mines in Alberta

The Coal Mine Atlas includes: Locations, names and owners. Production figures and lifespan. Interactive Map Viewer: shows by location, type and size of mines. Location of …

Coal Mine Free Alberta

A new vision that helps better protect Alberta's Eastern Slopes is needed. Cancellation of the Coal Policy resulted in almost 188,000 hectares of new coal leases across the Rockies, adding to the threat of several new coal mine proposals already underway. Exploration and mine development covering over 50,000 hectares are now at some stage of ...

Coal Production | Alberta Energy Regulator

Summary. In 2022, total production of marketable coal increased by 30 per cent from 2021 (see Table S7.1). As shown in Figure S7.1, subbituminous coal production declined in …

Proposal to expand Alberta coal mine faces pushback after …

CST Canada Coal operates open-pit coal mines in Grande Cache, about 430 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. In October, it applied for permits to deepen two of its pits by 155 and 210 metres. An ...

Canmore's Mining Heritage

Nevertheless, from the time the Canadian Anthracite Coal Co. opened the No. 1 Mine in 1887 and finally secured a contract with CPR in late 1891 or early 1892, Canmore's survival as a coal-mining town was tenuous, even with its high-quality coal. The coal extracted from the No. 1 Mine was semi-anthracite coal, hard, lustrous coal that burns ...

Alberta coal mine moves ahead without permits federal …

Environmental groups are asking Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without fisheries permits that officials have said are required.

Federal officials say Alberta coal mine moving ahead …

Environmental groups are asking Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without fisheries permits that officials have said are ...

Alberta rescinds decades-old policy that banned open-pit coal mines …

Alberta is cancelling blanket environmental protections that have been in place since the 1970s and making it easier to develop open-pit coal mines in some of the province's most ecologically ...

Coal Mine Map Viewer

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