The largest segment of the mining industry in British Columbia is coal mining. Coal is present throughout the province from Vancouver Island to the Rocky Mountains. The most valuable and the largest coalfields are the East Kootenay coalfields made up of three separate fields. The Flathead, Crowsnest, and Elk Valley fields. The deposits of coal travel northward from the U.S. border, located between severely folded and faulted sediment layers. In the East Kootenay's there are five mines, they are all open- pit mines. All of the coal from this region is transported by trains to Vancouver where it is loaded onto ships at Robert's bank and Neptune coal ports. From there it taken to markets mainly in South Korea, Japan and China.
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