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The District Municipality of Tumbler Ridge is a small town in east-central British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Rigional District. While it only has a population of 3,300 people (2004) its municipal borders cover 1,548.73 square kilometres (962.34 sq. miles). The town was purpose-built in the 1980s as a company town for the BCRIC Northwest Coal project.
Tumbler Ridge is 85 kilometers (km; 53 m) south of Chetwynd.
Tumbler Ridge is the home to the largest discovery of dinosaur bones in British Columbia, and the oldest bones in Western Canada. The Monkman Provincial Park, and the Kinuseo Waterfall (among several in the area), are located just 70 km (44 m) south-southwest of town.
22 km (14 m) southwest of Tumbler Ridge is the Quintette metallurgical coal seam, or Wolverine Group formation (named for the Wolverine River that disects the seam), running northwest-southeast, on the east slope of the Rocky Mountains. Elk Valley Coal Corporation (EVCC), Teck Cominco (sold its interest to EVCC), Western Canadian Coal, Northern Energy and Mining Incorporated (NEMI), Hillsborough Resources, and First Coal Corporation have been among the coal companies operating in the formation since 1983.
Tumbler Ridge is 85 kilometers (km; 53 m) south of Chetwynd.
Tumbler Ridge is the home to the largest discovery of dinosaur bones in British Columbia, and the oldest bones in Western Canada. The Monkman Provincial Park, and the Kinuseo Waterfall (among several in the area), are located just 70 km (44 m) south-southwest of town.
22 km (14 m) southwest of Tumbler Ridge is the Quintette metallurgical coal seam, or Wolverine Group formation (named for the Wolverine River that disects the seam), running northwest-southeast, on the east slope of the Rocky Mountains. Elk Valley Coal Corporation (EVCC), Teck Cominco (sold its interest to EVCC), Western Canadian Coal, Northern Energy and Mining Incorporated (NEMI), Hillsborough Resources, and First Coal Corporation have been among the coal companies operating in the formation since 1983.
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