[Old School]

IMO, coal is not dead, although it may be on life support here in Central Appalachia.

With the closing of so many power plants across the nation, the demand for high quality steam coal has been reduced to record low levels. The majority of the remaining coal plants have the ability to burn the cheaper coal and lower quality coal from the Illinois and Powder River Basins.

For mines to survive in Central App. I think they will have to depend on met coal and exporting coal around the World.