Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (ANR)

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. operates as a coal producer primarily in the central Appalachian and northern Appalachian regions. The company engages in underground room and pillar mining, and surface mining operations, with a focus on high bituminous, low sulfur steam coal and metallurgical coal reserves. It supplies and exports metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making processes; and thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries fuel for electricity generation. The company operates 61 mines and 14 coal preparation plants in Northern and Central Appalachia and the Powder River Basin. Alpha Natural Resources also involves in the purchase and resale of coal. The company serves electric utilities, steel manufacturers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. Alpha Natural Resources was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia.

For the nine months ended 30 September 2006, Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.'s revenues increased 29% to $1.45B. Net income from continuing operations totaled $64.9M, up from $9M. Revenues reflect an increase in coal revenue, increased freight and handling revenue and increase in other revenues. Net income also reflects decreased selling, general and administration expense and increased miscellaneous income.