The river is the namesake of Teck Resource's Fording River coal mine. Photo: Jayce Hawkins / The Narwhal. ... where Teck Resources owns and operates five sprawling metallurgical coal mines. To get at those blackened seams, Teck employs a technique known as cross-valley fill, a bucolic euphemism for mountaintop removal …
The current annual production capacities of the mine and preparation plant (on a basis) are 5.9 million and 5.4 million tonnes of clean coal, respectively. Proven and probable reserves at Greenhills are projected to support mining for a further 37 years, or less depending on the extent of Greenhills' raw coal processed at Fording River.
Mining operations would then continue for several decades. By the early 2030s, all steelmaking coal for Fording River Operations would come from the project. In September 2021, Teck received the green light from the B.C. Environmental Assessment office to expand its Fording River coal mine near the Alberta border. Project Details
Fording River Mine is owned by Teck Coal and is located 29 kilometres northeast of the community of Elkford, in southeastern British Columbia. The mine is 20,304 hectares of coal lands, of which 4,263 hectares have been mined or are scheduled for mining. The coal is primarily steelmaking coal, with annual production capacities of approximately …
lands, produces metallurgical coal. Upgraded in 2020, the annual production capacity of the mine and preparation plant is 9.0 Mt and Teck estimates a remaining mine life of 30 years. 3.2.2. Fording River (Teck Coal Limited) The Fording River mine, which extends across 13,000 ha of coal lands, produces primarily metallurgical coal, with lesser
Our fourth quarter steelmaking coal sales were 6.1 million tonnes, near the top end of our previously disclosed guidance of 5.8 – 6.2 million tonnes. The realized steelmaking coal price in the fourth quarter averaged US$270 per tonne. We expect to report positive steelmaking coal provisional pricing adjustments of $89 million in the …
Heavy equipment operates at an open-pit coal mine in B.C., just west of the Alberta border. (Robson Fletcher/CBC) A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries ...
Built in 1969, Fording River is located 29 km northeast of Elkford, B.C., and is the largest of Teck's five coal mines in the Elk Valley. Fording River produces primarily high-quality coking coal, and proven and probable reserves are projected to support mining at current production rates for more than 30 years.
The largest fine, at $15.48 million, was handed out for Teck Coal's failure to activate its Fording River South water treatment facility near Elkford, B.C., by Dec. 31, 2018, as required by the ...
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The sale of Teck's steelmaking coal business at the implied enterprise value of US$9.0 billion on a basis achieves a simple and complete separation of steelmaking coal from base metals. Glencore has agreed to acquire 77% of EVR for US$6.9 billion in cash, payable to Teck at closing of the Glencore transaction, subject to …
The Elk Valley is now home to five Teck-owned operating coal mines, with the company's Fording River Operations, located 29 kilometres northeast of Elkford, being the largest. Fording River produced nine million …
Designed as a 3Mt/y operation, Fording River began production in 1971 and made its first shipment of metallurgical coal in April 1972. Producer of. Metallurgical and thermal coal. Location. 29km northeast of Elkford, BC, Canada. Ownership. Elk Valley Coal Corporation () … See more
Elkview Operations is located approximately three kilometres east of Sparwood in southeastern British Columbia. It is one of our four steelmaking coal operations in the Elk Valley. Teck has a 95% partnership interest in Elkview. The remaining 5% is indirectly held equally by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, a Japanese …
The Castle project is adjacent to and just south of Teck's Fording River coal operations, in the East Kootenay Region of southeast B.C. The expansion would extend the life of the operations by ...
Gardner says that they regularly hear explosions from the Fording River mines owned by Teck Resources, 40 kilometres to the west in BC. Montem's undeveloped leases adjacent to Alberta's Forestry Trunk Road (Highway 940) are even closer. ... Annual royalties from all of Alberta's metallurgical coal mines amounted to barely $5-million in …
Fording River produced nine million tonnes of metallurgical coal in 2016 and achieved $1.4 billion in revenue. Forty-five years ago, on March 15, 1972, the Fording River Operations began shipping coal on trains to the …
Fording River Operations is located approximately 29 km northeast of the community of Elkford, in southeastern British Columbia. It is one of Teck's five steelmaking coal operations in the Elk Valley. Fording River produces steelmaking coal – also called metallurgical coal or coking coal —which is used to make steel.
Currently, Fording River Operations produces steelmaking coal from existing permitted …
Castle Project is a proposed open-pit metallurgical coal mine expansion of Teck's Fording River Operations in the Elk Valley, which produces steelmaking coal ... located to the south of the Fording River coal mine. Located about 30km north of Elkford, the coal mine expansion project is estimated to sustain production capacity of 10 million ...
Teck is Canada's largest diversified mining company and is committed to responsible development. It has major business units focused on copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, gold and energy. Shares are listed on the TSX under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and on the NYSE under the symbol TECK.
The Fording River Extension (FRX) Project is a proposed extension of Teck's existing Fording River Operations, a steelmaking coal mine located in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The Project will maintain the jobs and economic benefits generated by the operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. …
The extension of Teck's Fording River Operations is critical to ensuring a strong and successful future for Teck's steelmaking coal business. By the Numbers . One-third of Teck's current $3.9 billion economic contribution to …
The Elk Valley is now home to five Teck-owned operating coal mines, with the company's Fording River Operations, located 29 kilometres northeast of Elkford, being the largest. Fording River produced nine million tonnes of metallurgical coal in 2016 and achieved $1.4 billion in revenue. Forty-five years ago, on March 15, 1972, the Fording ...
Commodities: Metallurgical and thermal coal Location: 29 km northeast of Elkford, BC. Geology and Type of Deposit: Fording River Mine is located in the Foreland belt of the Canadian Cordillera. The coal deposit occurs in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Mist Mountain Formation (Kootenay Group) interbedded with sandstone, siltstone and shale. These …
Photo: Callum Gunn. In the largest penalty ever issued for Fisheries Act offences, Teck Coal Limited was fined $60 million by the Provincial Court of British Columbia Friday for polluting waterways in the Elk Valley, where the company operates metallurgical coal mines. Teck Coal, a subsidiary of Teck Resources, pleaded guilty to …
The metallurgical coal is a medium-volatile hard coking coal. In the northern part of the Elk Valley coalfield, Fording Coal Limited owns and operates the Greenhills Mine which produced 4.7 million tonnes of clean coal in 2001 and the Fording River mine (9.4 million tonnes clean coal production in 2001).
BRITISH COLUMBIA The Fording River metallurgical coal mine near Elkford has won the 2003 Citation for outstanding achievement for reclamation at a coal mine. The award was made at the 28th Annual British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium Awards ceremony held in Cranbrook on June 23. This is the eleventh …
The Fording River Mine is designed to have a nominal capacity of 10 million tonnes of clean coal million mtcc per year. The updated Life of Mine Plans includes Proven and Probable Reserves to …
Through investments in metallurgical coal and industrial minerals mining and processing operations, the Trust makes quarterly cash distributions to unitholders. The Trust, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, holds a 60% interest in the Elk Valley Coal Partnership and is a leading producer of the industrial mineral wollastonite.
Teck is Canada's largest diversified mining company and is committed to responsible development. It has major business units focused on copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, gold and energy. Shares are listed on the TSX under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and on the NYSE under the symbol TECK. ... Fording River Operations is one …
This metallurgical coal surface mine became Conuma Coal's first operational mine in 2016. The open-pit project supplies some of the best low volatile Pulverised Coal Injection (PCI) coal in the world, providing a coveted resource for steelmakers. ... Fording River Operations. Location: 29 kilometres northeast of Elkford, …
These mines are some of the biggest in Canada. Together, they have the capacity to produce more than 21.7 million tons of metallurgical coal, an essential ingredient in producing steel from iron …
In March 2021, Teck Coal Limited resolved charges under the Fisheries Act relating to 2012 discharges of selenium and calcite to a mine settling pond and to the Fording River from its Fording ...
The Fording River Extension Project is a proposed extension of Teck's existing Fording River steelmaking coal mine located in the East Kootenay region in southeastern British Columbia. The Project …
Just downstream of Teck's 50-square-kilometre Fording River coal mine, cutthroat trout swim in heavily polluted waters. This isolated population of trout, federally listed as a species at risk, recently collapsed, with more than 90% of adult fish gone in just two years. Now, Teck has applied to expand the Fording River mine onto Castle ...
