This is a side of the briquette plant, where everything at the abandoned Brazeau Collieries mine operation would have come together. Hot liquid petroleum asphalt was combined with crushed coal, then gravity-fed through rotating steel presses to form briquettes. At peak demand, 4 separate lines ran 24 hours a day making briquettes for shipping out by rail. Today, new corrugated metal siding gleams over the darkened heart of the coal operation and distant clouds billow above the silenced stacks.