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MINING COAL - ECONOMICS - Coke Manufacturing
Smelters didn’t use coal directly, but coke - a
carbon-rich, gray, porous material produced by roasting
coal in large banks of
coke ovens
at temperatures of
about 1000 degrees C for about 48 hours.
Major coke manufacturing facilities in the
Crowsnest Pass were located at Fernie, Michel, Morrissey
and Hosmer in British Columbia and at Lille and Coleman in
Alberta.
Crowsnest Pass coal is an excellent coking coal and
superior to the coal mined on Vancouver Island for this
purpose. On average, it took about 1.43 tons of coal to
produce a ton of coke.
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