Meet the man behind a remarkable renaissance in North East BC mining

Low demand for metallurgical coal led to shuttered coal mines and lost jobs. And then this happened...

Our Stewart Muir recently caught up with Mark Bartkoski, whose company Conuma Coal Resources Ltd. recently reopened coal mines in the vicinity of Tumbler Ridge. 

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