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Star Mine | |||
After the Star Coal Mines Ltd. purchased the lease from J. N. Murray they increased their holdings to 240 acres. By 1920 the authorized capital of the mine rose to $50,000.00. It was the Number 1 Seam mined with a drift entrance and operated by a room and pillar system. At that time the method of mining was still with a "hand pick" which yielded 60,000 tons annually.
This article is extracted from Ernest
Hlady, The Valley of the Dinosaurs : Its Families and Coal
Mines (East Coulee, Alberta, East Coulee Community
Association, 1988). The Heritage Community Foundation and the
Year of the Coal Miner Consortium would like to thank Ernest
Hlady and the East Coulee Community Association for permission
to reprint this material. |
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