Resource The Basin Coal Mine has sufficient reserves for a long mine life. A production decision on the project was made based on a feasibility study completed in early 2002. The study evaluated a 1,500-meter section of a total of 2,500 meters that has been drill tested. The reported open pit resource estimated within the 1,500 meters is 19 million tonnes of raw coal. The B.C. Government has published the estimated global coal resource potential for the basin to be 240 million tonnes of in-situ coal. |  |  John Tapics (CEO), Larry Belik (Site Manager) and Jim O’Rourke (Chairman) looking north along exposed coal seam. (Jun 2006) |