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Tumbler Ridge watches coal prices as Chinese mining giant—The 17th China(Guangzhou)Int’l Heat Treatment,Industrial Furnace Exhibition
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residents of the northeastern BC community of Tumbler Ridge are keeping a close eye on the price of metallurgical coal these days.
That’s because in the upcoming months, Chinese mining giant HD Mining International Ltd. is expected to make a final decision on whether it will go ahead with the USD 688-million “long-wall” Murray River coal project.
Tumbler Ridge mayor Mr Don McPherson said his region is struggling with high unemployment as existing coal mines in the area remain idle with the low price of coal.
Mr McPherson said that “We sure need this project. We have nothing going on with mining right now. If the price of coal goes up, people go to work, and when it goes down there are layoffs.”
But Mr McPherson said the decision by HD Mining to extract the coal in the “long-wall” underground type of mining could prove economically viable even if international prices for coal remain weak.
Just days ago, Environment Minister Mary Polak and Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett granted an environmental assessment certificate for the Murray River project, stipulating there would be 24 conditions made through the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office.
Mr McPherson wants to see a training centre set up in his region so that mining companies can hire people who are trained locally.
He said that “I think it is up to the province to step up and put in a training centre here. It is some of the best coal in the world there.”
When the Murray River project was first being developed, HD Mining brought in hundreds of foreign workers to help with the core samples and startup phase.
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17th China(Guangzhou)Int’l Heat Treatment,Industrial Furnace
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