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MINING COAL - ECONOMICS - The Coke Market
The coke was loaded into open gondola cars or boxcars and
shipped by rail, initially to smelters at Nelson and
Trail, and the Northport Smelter just over the American
border.
The production of coke depended to a great extent on
the market demands for it. For example, in 1904, 350,900
tons of coal, which was 54 percent of total production
from the British Columbia mines in the Crowsnest, was made
into coke.
It didn’t last, in 1922 after the closure of the smelters
at Grand Forks and Greenwood only 61,497 tons of coal or 11
percent of production was made into coke.
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