Mercoal, a former coal mining town, is located in the Yellowhead County of western Alberta, Canada.

It was one of several communities along the historic Coal Branch segment of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (now part of the Canadian National Railway), which included Embarras, Robb, Coalspur, Coal Valley, Cadomin, Luscar, and Mountain Park.

Mercoal declined after the mines closed in 1959, and it is now essentially a ghost town with only a small number of summer residences remaining.

In 1924 the mine was sold to Saunders Ridge Coal Company, Ltd.[3] The Mercoal mine was the last major operator in the Coal Branch area, and it attracted workers from other Coal Branch towns after the closure of the mines at Mountain Park in 1950 and Cadomin in 1952.

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