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Why Choose Us
The Coal Valley Mine, spanning 20,660 hectares, is a surface mine situated south of Edson in Western Central Alberta. With an annual capacity of 1.8 million metric tons, it exports bituminous coal to the Asia-Pacific market via the Trigon Coal Terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. To date, Coal Valley has sold over 97 million metric tons of coal. The mine’s fleet includes five hydraulic shovels, twenty-four 200-metric-ton haulage trucks, and various support equipment.
Located in Alberta’s prized Foothills region, at the junction of the Rocky Mountains and boreal forests, Coal Valley’s team takes immense pride in their nearly four decades of stewardship. They have established reclamation practices and procedures for recontouring, soil replacement, revegetation, and reforestation, setting the standard across Alberta. A standout achievement is the award-winning development of pit end lakes, which have become templates for the popular sports fishery industry.
The 4.2 million tons of annual production from the 20,331-hectare Estevan Mine, located in Southeastern Saskatchewan between Estevan and Bienfait, supplies Saskatchewan Power Corporation’s four-unit Boundary Dam and single-unit Shand Generating Station, an activated carbon processing joint venture, and a wholly-owned char plant, whose product is used to manufacture barbecue briquettes.
Boundary Dam’s 115 MW Unit #3 operates a breakthrough Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) facility that has demonstrated a verified ability to remove over 90% of CO2 emissions from the unit – up to 75,000 tons a month – with increasing levels of reliability and rapidly reducing costs.
The activated carbon processed from Estevan’s production is a versatile substance with applications across industrial use, medical products, agriculture, fuel storage, gas and chemical purification and environmental amelioration.
Estevan Mine uses advanced topsoil stockpiling techniques to minimize erosion along with contour leveling, unmanned aerial vehicle surveying as well as 3D modeling and equipment simulation software to optimize reclamation efficiency and re-vegetation of all disturbed land developed before being returned to prior use activities.
The 25,000-acre Rosebud Mine, situated in the northern Powder River Basin near Colstrip, Montana, and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, produces 6-8 million tons annually—enough to power 1 million typical U.S. homes. Nearly all of this production is supplied under long-term contracts to the adjacent Colstrip Power Station.
Colstrip Station, one of the region’s most cost-efficient and cleanest power plants, is highly valued by Northwestern utilities for its ability to provide long-term, affordable, and reliable baseload power. The plant is specifically designed to utilize Rosebud’s coal.
Rosebud Mine works closely with federal and state authorities, employing advanced reclamation techniques before, during, and after mining. These techniques include soil material salvage and redistribution, backfilling, regrading and contouring, drainage construction, revegetation, and post-mine monitoring. These efforts ensure the successful return of developed land to its previous uses, such as grazing, pastureland, cropland, and wildlife habitat.
The mine maintains a strong relationship with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, featuring a full-time liaison, preferential hiring, transportation support, assistance for tribal law enforcement, and a college scholarship program.
Over its decades of reliable operations, Rosebud has earned numerous federal, state, and industry environmental and safety awards.
The Poplar River Mine, spanning 7,488 hectares near Coronach, South Central Saskatchewan, produces 3.3 million tons annually. This output supplies the two generating units at Saskatchewan Power Corporation’s Poplar River Generating Station, which utilizes cleaner, state-of-the-art electrically-powered equipment.
The mine has reclaimed and re-vegetated over 4,275 hectares of land—approximately 100 hectares each year—using advanced techniques such as detailed reclamation designs and tracking, 3D photogrammetric imaging, and CAES technology. These efforts return the land to productive use for forage production, cereal crops, and native prairies.
Over the years, Poplar River Mine has received numerous safety awards, including the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 John T. Ryan Awards from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum for notable achievements in safe production. The 2019 award recognized the mine’s impressive record of over 275,000 hours without a reportable injury—nearly 30 years.
Absaloka Coal, LLC (ACL) was established in 2008 to qualify as a producer of Indian coal under Section 45(e) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Westmoreland subleased a portion of its coal reserves to ACL and agreed to act as the contract mine operator, making ACL the official producer and seller of coal from the Absaloka Mine.
In October 2008, Westmoreland sold its membership interest in ACL to a large financial entity in exchange for equity payments, including notes representing the majority of the value of Indian Coal Production Tax Credits earned by ACL. A portion of these note payments is shared with the Crow Tribe. ACL has received a Private Letter Ruling from the Internal Revenue Service confirming its qualification for these credits.
Westmoreland retains the overriding coal mineral leases for the Absaloka Mine with the Crow Tribe, serving as the mine permittee. It owns, controls, and operates all equipment and infrastructure, and employs the mine workforce. Additionally, Westmoreland acts as the exclusive sales agent for ACL.
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San Juan Mine’s annual production is exclusively devoted to PNM’s adjacent, 924-MW San Juan Generating Station.
San Juan achieves safe, clean and efficient operations through use of highly advanced “long-wall mining” featuring modern, high-efficiency electric equipment opening 20’ X 10’ passageways that are immediately reinforced with rebar ceilings and well-lit with LED lighting. The mine employs sprays and shields within the mining environment and throughout the transportation of product, to control the environment and keep dust below federal standards. This is an addition to innovative ventilation technology and alarms that limit the danger from gases.
Safety is further enhanced by video monitoring of all underground activity while workers are in the mine, use of remote equipment that can keep employees away from hazardous areas, and continuous adoption of best practices from across the company and the industry.
San Juan sets high standards for reclamation using advanced geomorphic techniques to restore vegetation, with regulators referencing such efforts as a benchmark for other mines activities in the State.
More than 40% of the workforce at San Juan Mine is Native American, and the mine provides support for numerous local community organizations including the Kirtland Youth Organization and sports teams.
Westmoreland Beulah Mining LLC operates a 9,000-acre surface mine complex located 75 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota. Beulah’s 400,000 tons of annual production supplies the fuel requirements for the two-unit, 75-megawatt RM Heskett Station in Mandan, ND.
Beulah Mine employs advanced, award-winning reclamation and land-preservation techniques, in particular a mine plan that preserves wooded draw areas, naturally-occurring narrow valleys primarily vegetated with trees and shrubs that provide valuable wildlife habitat, livestock shelter, and naturally occurring landscape diversity.
Over many years of operation, Beulah has been recognized with numerous company, industry, federal and state awards for safety along with the North Dakota Public Service Commission’s Award for Excellence in Surface Coal Mining & Reclamation
The 1,187-acre Savage Mine, strategically located on the Montana-North Dakota border near Savage, MT, supplies its 350,000 tons of annual production via a full-requirements contract with Montana Dakota Utilities’ 57-megawatt Lewis & Clark Station, as well as a longstanding supply relationship with Sidney Sugars Refining Plant near Sidney, Montana.
Like other Westmoreland resource development properties, Savage engages in near-contemporaneous reclamation of developed land and has restored more than (TK) acres to its original conditions including use for (TK).
During its years of operation, Savage’s outstanding safety record has resulted in awards including 10 Westmoreland President’s Awards, three Montana Governor’s Award Small Mine Awards, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Certificate of Achievement Award and Sentinels of Safety Award and the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute’s Safety Award for Surface Mines.
The Genesee Mine is a 7,378 hectare surface mine located approximately 75 km southwest of Edmonton, Alberta. The mine began operations in 1988 and entered full time reclamation and closure in 2024. Genesee’s business model, with Westmoreland essentially acting as a contract miner under a joint venture with Capital Power, underscores the company’s flexible approach to operating structures.
Genesee earned the Alberta Chamber of Resources’ 2009 Major Reclamation Award for its comprehensive land reclamation plan, that includes the re-establishment of wetlands and natural creek bodies and the development of wildlife corridors, as well as restoring multiple end-use capabilities similar to those that existed prior to mining. The plan encompasses self-sustaining and naturally maturing wildlife habitats through reforestation, re-establishment of wetlands and the creation of agricultural lands for cattle grazing, hay, and cultivated crops. Reclamation is implemented in close cooperation with a Community Advisory Council representing a variety of viewpoints and interests.
Throughout the progressive reclamation efforts at Genesee Mine, several research trials with the University of Alberta and NAIT have been conducted to study re-creating boreal forest in areas heavily impacted by agriculture. In addition to reclamation, the Genesee Mine has won many safety awards, including the John T. Ryan Trophy twelve times.
The 6,226-hectare Paintearth Mine, located near Forestburg, Central Alberta, has transitioned from coal mine operations into final reclamation and coal ash recycling. The area supplied thermal coal to the Battle River Generating Station over more than six decades but has largely been reclaimed into agricultural fields and wildlife habitat similar to pre-mining conditions. Reclamation activities such as re-grading and soil replacement will continue for the next several years followed by ongoing reclamation monitoring to ensure the land, water, and wildlife are sustainable into the future.
Paintearth Mine was the first mine in Alberta to obtain reclamation certification for restored land after mining and the recipient of numerous national awards for safety, winning the prestigious 2019 John T. Ryan Award from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and the 2023 Alberta Mine Safety Association Safety Excellence Award for notable achievements in safe production.
In addition to being a steward to the land, Paintearth Mine is also excavating buried coal ash to supply the Reclaimed Ash Management facility located onsite. The mine supplies feedstock to the facility, which is owned and operated by Ashcor Technologies Ltd., a subsidiary of ATCO. This agreement extends the partnership between the two companies beyond thermal coal and into a new venture.
The Obed Mountain Mine is a 7,460 hectare open pit mine located approximately 20km northeast of Hinton in West Central Alberta. The mine began operations in 1984 and entered full time reclamation and closure in 2013.
Given its location in the province’s prized Foothills region at the junction of the Rocky Mountains and boreal forests, Obed's people take great pride in the mine’s husbandry over four decades in establishing reclamation practices and procedures for recontouring; soil replacement, revegetation, and reforestation used across Alberta today. The closure of Obed, in collaboration with aboriginal stakeholders, currently consists of wetland and lake development, wildlife monitoring and mitigation, creek and watercourse re-establishment, among others, with a long-term goal of reclamation certification in order to provide the land back to the Public.
Throughout the reclamation efforts at Obed Mine, several leading-edge trials have been established to assist in achieving equivalent or better land capability. This includes the recycling of pulp residuals from the Hinton pulp facility, the admixing of biosolids, and the placement of humalite from other Westmoreland mines within Alberta to enhance the soil schema. Several wildlife studies are also being conducted to provide habitat structures for bats, raptors, and other birds and provide the required data to ensure the re-establishment of forest landscape, providing commercial forestry opportunities and a home for small mammals, ungulates, and other predators.
