6835 feet; 2083 metres), south of the Crowsnest Pass in the southern Canadian Rockies.
[2] The town was built at an elevation of 5060 feet (1542 metres),[3] and at one time it boasted a population of 600.
They lay in complexly folded and faulted strata[3][6] of the Mist Mountain Formation in the Kootenay Group.
The mine was operated by a different company for a few years during World War II to supply the smelter at Trail, but most of the workers traveled from elsewhere in the region and the town was not revived.
[5] Byron Creek Collieries opened a large open-pit mine at Corbin in 1972, but again most of the workers traveled from elsewhere.