 Record world energy prices during 2004-2005 resulted in plans to reopen an abandoned colliery at Donkin.Xstrata Coal, a subsidiary of Switzerland's Xstrata Plc Group, was awarded the right to develop the Donkin colliery by the provincial government, and re-opened the mine in 2017, however due to several Cave-ins the mine closed in 2020.The Donkin project had been estimated by promoters that it would create hundreds of jobs for Industrial Cape Breton.