Show 4 per cent of world coal Is in colorado over three per cent of 0 the worlds coal supply and per cent of the coal reserves of the world are located in we western s tern colorado waiting for mans ingenuity ito to tap this huge reservoir of energy these figures were released in a special table presented to the energy edition by thomas alien auen chief inspector coal mine inspection department of the state of colorado western colorado tonnage totals or per cent of the states known coal reserves it Is ml split i t within five fields with the uinta ta topping the list with to tons others other are the yampa green biver river tons san juan tons tongue mesa tons and south park tons alien allen quoted these figurea from ronald F lawson of the school of business research university of colorado and the spencer and erwin report supply tonnage by counties on the western slope tabulated as delta garfield gunnison la plata 41 mesa moffat moctezuma montezuma montrose pitkin rio blanco and routt alien allen broke down the world coal reserves in a comparison which embraced the united states the rocky mountain states colorado and western colorado according to his figures the V U S totals 46 per cent of the reserve the rocky mountain area 60 per cent of the 46 per cent or per cent and colorado 15 per cent of the figure or per cent of all coal reserves these figures were further extended to show that western colorado contains 12 32 per pet cent of the state s coal or nearly 3 34 per cent of the world supply this ranks western colorado ahead of australia with one per cent a and nd africa with three per cent of the worlds coal this area is outranked out ranked only b by the north american continent 74 europe and asia south america produces only a negligible amount of the supply texaco exploration co a subsidiary of texas co has made its first oil discovery in la the pern pem bina area of alberta |