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Ministry of Energy, Mines and Pertoleum Resources

Coal Data and Reports

 

Coal data and reports are available in different formats:

 

Coal Assessment Reports: Of the 861 total coal assessment reports, 818 are scanned into PDF format. Partial versions of the scanned reports can be viewed or downloaded from the Coal Map. Full versions of the reports on CD-ROM are available for the Peace River area NE BC (248 reports on 5 DVDs for $4960), Crowsnest area (85 reports on 10 CDs or 2 DVDs for $1700.00), Hat Creek area, and Telkwa area.  Other areas are available on request at $20 per report.  Status of Missing Reports as of July 25, 2007.

 

Available applications and data:

 

  • Online COALFILE Search application, posted February 24, 2006. Searches include COALFILE Number, Report Year, Coal Field and NTS Map.  Results include links to Coal Assessment Reports, Boreholes, Bulk Samples, Trenches, MINFILE, MapPlace, and KML files for use in Google Earth.
  • COALFILE MS Access Table (August 31, 2007), including data on 861 reports, 10333 boreholes, 466 bulk samples, 3341 trenches, 889 maps, and links to MINFILE, is available for download: COALFILE2007.ZIP (1.3 Mb).  COALFILE metadata is also available.  Previous table: COALFILE2004.ZIP (1.2 Mb). 
  • Coalfield Table links to coal occurrences and coal assessment report tables.
  • The MapPlace Coal Map:  Features coal geology layers, data from COALFILE and links to coal assessment reports in PDF format.
  • Coal License spatial file to Geospatial Download page.  The file is in Shape format in the Mineral Tenure row of the table, and is time-stamped.
  • Early COALFILE tables (pre 1992) are available as a set of relational dBase files.  The files are Bulk (bulk sample information including location, report number, license number and seam name); Comment (comments on reports); Explore (exploration data including operator, owner and status); Map (map information including area, scales and type); Trench (trench data including method, samples and location); and Borehole (borehole data including identification, drill type, location, elevation, log type, contractor, depth, direction and dip).