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MINING COAL - ECONOMICS - Coal Production
Coal production peaked at 1,528,934 tons in the years
before the First World War and slowly declined, with some
fluctuations, over the next forty years.
An industry in decline attracts little new investment
and the mine operations became outdated, facilities were
not renewed and the mining towns of the Crowsnest
suffered.
By 1959 annual production hit an all-time low of only
850,000 tons, and the British Columbia coal industry faced
virtual extinction.
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