Company Description:
Pocahontas Coal Company has more than 230 employees, with operations located in southern Raleigh County in the communities of Killarney, Josephine, Lillybrook and Affinity.
Pocahontas has three deep mines, a surface mine and two highwall miner operations, in addition to the East Gulf preparation plant, which has been upgraded significantly. The company's annual coal production capacity is more than 1 million tons, with reserves totaling 72 million recoverable tons of low-volatile metallurgical coal.
Pocahontas' Affinity complex consists of an existing slope mine in the Pocahontas No. 3 seam, a coal preparation plant and a rail-loading facility. Although Affinity is currently idle, the company's five-year plan includes reopening the 60-million-ton reserve, which has some of the finest quality Pocahontas No. 3 coal in southern West Virginia. The company's Weirwood reserve, a large virgin block of Sewell coal, also represents additional future mining opportunities.
United Coal Company, Pocahontas' parent company, has favorable, long-term price indications from domestic and foreign consumers for the low-volatile coal produced by Pocahontas Coal Company.
In 2005, United Coal Company purchased the assets of Beckley-based White Mountain Mining Co., LLC and certain affiliates to establish Pocahontas Coal Company.
Pocahontas Coal Company has more than 230 employees, with operations located in southern Raleigh County in the communities of Killarney, Josephine, Lillybrook and Affinity.
Pocahontas has three deep mines, a surface mine and two highwall miner operations, in addition to the East Gulf preparation plant, which has been upgraded significantly. The company's annual coal production capacity is more than 1 million tons, with reserves totaling 72 million recoverable tons of low-volatile metallurgical coal.
Pocahontas' Affinity complex consists of an existing slope mine in the Pocahontas No. 3 seam, a coal preparation plant and a rail-loading facility. Although Affinity is currently idle, the company's five-year plan includes reopening the 60-million-ton reserve, which has some of the finest quality Pocahontas No. 3 coal in southern West Virginia. The company's Weirwood reserve, a large virgin block of Sewell coal, also represents additional future mining opportunities.
United Coal Company, Pocahontas' parent company, has favorable, long-term price indications from domestic and foreign consumers for the low-volatile coal produced by Pocahontas Coal Company.
In 2005, United Coal Company purchased the assets of Beckley-based White Mountain Mining Co., LLC and certain affiliates to establish Pocahontas Coal Company.