Anthracite, Alberta It was reopened the next year when W. H. McNeill agreed to finance the coal company, but after a series of floods and more bad luck, McNeill moved his operations to nearby Canmore. It was deserted in 1904 and in the 1930s mining in the surrounding region was banned by the government. Anthracite is located at approximately . In 1997, John Pearson, a former Parks Canada employee and last living resident of Anthracite revealed to a Banff newspaper that he had heard a rumour in the 1960s that a child had drowned in the nearby Cascade River in 1883 and
Siberian Anthracite a part of the Alltech Group, which is the majority shareholder. The company is led by CEO Anastasia Poprygaeva. Siberian Anthracite dates back to the mid-1970s, having been founded in 1974 to supply a number of Soviet enterprises producing electrodes and metallurgical and ferroalloy plants. The company's assets were restructured in 2001 as CJSC Siberian Anthracite. In 2011, it was reported that the company planned to list its shares in London. Siberian Anthracite was a founder member of Novosibirsk-based professional ice-hockey club Sibir, and continues to sponsor the club. Siberian Anthracite Siberian Anthracite () is Russia's largest producer of ultra