Private company

Arctic Coal Company

1906–1916 American coal mining company operating in Svalbard, Norway

Arctic Coal Company was a coal mining company that operated mines at Longyearbyen (then Longyear City) in Svalbard between 1906 and 1916. The American industrialist John Munro Longyear visited Spitsbergen as a tourist in 1901, where he met with an expedition prospecting for coal. He returned to Spitsbergen 1903, where he met Henrik B. Næss in Adventfjorden, who gave him samples and information on coal fields.2 It is headquartered in Boston.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1906Founded1
  • Industrymining1
  • HeadquartersBoston1

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Arctic Coal Co. Advent Bay. Spitsbergen. 9364 Eneberettiget 1908 Wilse Christiania. - no-nb digifoto 20150626 00241 bldsa GH13alb L02
Photo: Anders Beer Wilse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Arctic Coal Company was a coal mining company that operated mines at Longyearbyen (then Longyear City) in Svalbard between 1906 and 1916.2

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • John Munro Longyear

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani1

Timeline

  1. 1916Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1906Founded Founded1

Sources

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