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According to the Coal Association of Canada, there are 24 permitted coal mines throughout Canada, 19 of which currently operate. The vast majority of the country's coal deposits can be found in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. [1] [2]
According to the company's 2018 annual report, the Vancouver-headquartered Teck Resources is a "diversified resource company" that focuses on "steelmaking coal, copper, zinc and energy", [1]: 1 with ownership or interests in thirteen "operating mines, a large metallurgical complex, and several major development projects in the Americas."
Thunder Bay GS began operation in 1963, with one 100 MW coal-fuelled generating unit. Two additional coal-fuelled units were added in the early 1980s, and in 1984 the original 100 MW unit was removed from service. This plant is connected to the power grid via 115 kV and 230 kV transmission lines.
The Fording River Coal Mine is a coal mine located in British Columbia, Canada. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 263.8 million tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Canada and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity of 8.34 million tonnes of coal. [1]
The Grassy Mountain Coal Project was a proposed open-pit mine to produce metallurgical coal, initially submitted to the Alberta Energy Regulator by the Australian-based Benga Mining in 2015. The proposed mine was located on a previously abandoned mine site near Crowsnest Pass, Alberta , Canada in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
From March 30, 1968, until November 23, 2001, DEVCO's coal division operated Canada's largest underground coal mines, located in eastern Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia. Following decommissioning of its mines, DEVCO sold all non-mining surface assets to the private sector on December 18, 2001, including the Devco Railway and is now remediating ...
The Coal Mountain Mine is a coal mine located in British Columbia. During operation, the mine has produced 2.5 million tonnes of coal per year. [ 1 ] Teck Resources which runs operation on site, put the mine on care and maintenance status in 2018.
This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada. True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [ 1 ] Other rural communities which did not function strictly in this way but were still dominated by a single industry may also be called company towns and are featured in this list.