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Summary: The bituminous thermal coal at Coal Valley is mined from three distinct coal seams, which are found within a 270 metre stratigraphic interval. One of the seams is characterized by fine clay and sandstone partings within the seam, and varies in thickness from 7.9 to 10.7 metres. The other seams range in thickness from 2.4 to 6.7 metres.
A heavy-duty truck hauling coal at the Wabamun surface mining operation near the TransAlta Power Plant demonstrates the advanced mechanization propelling Alberta’s modernizing coal industry in the 1960s. Source: Provincial Archives of Alberta, gr1989.0516.1088#1. The last mine in Edmonton’s river valley closes.
Demographics. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Yellowhead County had a population of 10,426 living in 4,160 of its 4,859 total private dwellings, a change of -5.2% from its 2016 population of 10,995. With a land area of 22,238.56 km 2 (8,586.36 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.5/km 2 (1.2/sq mi) in 2021.
Designated. 2002. The Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site is an inactive coal mine in Alberta, Canada that operated from 1936 to 1979. Located in East Coulee near Drumheller, it is considered to be Canada's most complete historic coal mine and is home to the country's last standing wooden coal tipple, and the largest still standing in North ...
The place of Coal Valley is located in Alberta (Canada) There are 114 places (city, towns, hamlets …) within a radius of 100 kilometers / 62 miles from the center of Coal Valley (AB), the nearest place in the area is Sterco, Alberta. Below is the table with the 51 places near Coal Valley (AB). In the table are indicated: name of the place ...
In Western Canada, coal was first mined on Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century. The development of the Canadian Pacific railway led to mines being built in towns along its route in Alberta. By 1911, Western Canada was producing most of the country's coal, and Alberta was the country's largest producing province.
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.
