In 2018, Alberta’s coal production totalled roughly 20 million tonnes and accounted for $10 million in royalties for the province, in line with Alberta Vitality’s Coal and Mineral Growth Unit’s “2018 Year in Assessment”. Within the fiscal yr 2019-2020 coal represented $11.Eight million or 0.2% of Alberta’s total non-renewable useful resource revenue of $5.9 billion. The huge sedimentary basin underlies 1,400,000 square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada together with Alberta, southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest nook of the Northwest Territories. This huge wedge of sedimentary rock extends from the Rocky Mountains within the
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