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To: koan who wrote (104214)1/26/2008 8:15:50 AM
From: 4C  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 312988
 
Coal Stocks Directory:

Arch Coal, Inc (NYSE: ACI) Is the nation's second largest coal producer, with subsidiary operations in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Through these operations, Arch provides the fuel for approximately 7% of the electricity generated in the United States.

Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) Is a leading producer of high-quality Appalachian coal. Approximately 92 percent of the company's reserve base is high Btu coal and 90 percent is low sulfur, qualities that are in high demand among electric utilities which use steam coal. Alpha is also one of the nation's largest producers and exporters of metallurgical coal, a key ingredient in steel manufacturing. Alpha and its subsidiaries currently operate mining complexes in four states, consisting of 69 mines feeding 11 coal preparation and blending plants.

Beard Co. (OTCBB: BRCO) primarily operates coal fines reclamation facilities in the United States. It operates through four segments: Coal Reclamation, Carbon Dioxide, China, and e-Commerce.

Cascade Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: CSCE) operates as an energy development company. It explores for natural gas, oil, and coal resources in North America.

Cash Minerals (TSX.V:CHX) Has a two-pronged exploration and development focus in the Yukon: coal and uranium. Its Division Mountain Coal Project's five coal leases measure 776.4 hectares and the 30 Coal Exploration Licenses cover approximately 360,000 hectares in coal-bearing stratigraphy.

Carnegie Corporation (ASX:CNM) is focused on developing and commercialising clean energy technologies. The world market for clean energy technologies and projects is undergoing rapid growth and Carnegie Corporation is well positioned to capitalise upon this through its involvement with two current projects:CETO wave energy technology; and Cleaner Coal Power, a low-emission, coal-fired power generation technology.

Coalcorp Mining Inc. (TSX-CCJ) Coalcorp is a coal mining, exploration and development company with interests in the La Francia and La Caypa coal mines and related infrastructure projects and a number of coal exploration properties, all located in Colombia.

CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE:CNX) Engages in the production of multifuel energy and provision of energy services primarily to electric power generation industry in the United States. The company has two units, Coal and Gas. The company’s Coal unit engages in the mining, preparation, and marketing of steam coal, sold primarily to power generators; and metallurgical coal, sold to metal and coke producers.

East Energy Corp. (TSX.V:EEC) is a Canadian junior mining company committed to the development and acquisition of coal properties in Mongolia and China.

Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG) Operates as an open-ended mutual fund. It invests in metallurgical coal, industrial minerals mining, and processing operations.

Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. (FCH) Through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, process, and sale of coal in the United States. The company produces and sells steam coal to producers of electric power.

Grande Cache Coal (GCE:TSX) (GACHF.PK) Is an Alberta based metallurgical coal mining company whose experienced team of coal professionals are developing a long-term mining operation to produce metallurgical coal for the export market from Grande Cache Coal's coal leases covering over 15,000 hectares in the Smoky River Coalfield located in west-central Alberta.

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Grayd Resource Corporation (GYY: TSX.V) is a Canadian public company committed to creating shareholder wealth through the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. Grayd's current focus is in North America, with gold properties in Mexico, a copper-gold property in British Columbia, and gold and precious metal enriched VMS properties in Alaska. To build on these assets, the Company continues evaluating new exploration opportunities.

Headwaters Incorporated (HW) through its subsidiaries, provides products, technologies, and services to the energy and construction materials industries in the United States. It operates in three segments: Construction Materials, Coal Combustion Products, and Alternative Energy.

International Coal Group, Inc. (NYSE: ICO) Engages in the extraction, processing, and marketing of steam and metallurgical coal from deep and surface mines, principally located in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Illinois. It sells coal to electric utilities and industrial customers primarily in the eastern United States

James River Coal Company (JRCC) Through its subsidiaries, engages in mining, processing, and selling coal in eastern Kentucky. The company provides bituminous, low sulfur, steam, and industrial grade coal to electric utility and industrial customers located in the southeastern region of the United States.

KFx, Inc. (AMEX: KFX) provides solutions to the electricity generation industry to improve energy production. The company, through its K-Fuel technology, transforms subbituminous coal and lignite into clean energy supplies. Its K-Fuel technology uses heat and pressure to physically and chemically transform coal with a lower heat value into coal with a higher heat value, as well as removes certain impurities, including mercury, sulfur dioxide, and emissions of oxides of Nitrogen. The company primarily offers its technology to coal-fired electric generating units and coal suppliers in the United States.

Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia, is the fourth largest coal company in the United States based on produced coal revenue.

MPAC Industries Corporation (TSX.V-MPN) is a start-up company preparing to engage in the refining of coal in Turkey – thus enabling their domestic low-grade coal reserves to replace the higher cost imported coal and other fuel sources such as natural gas

National Coal Corp., (NCOC) Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, National Coal Corporation, is engaged in coal mining in Eastern Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky. National Coal employs more than 200 people and produces coal from two mines in Tennessee and four in Kentucky.

Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NRP) engages in the ownership and management of coal properties in the United States.

Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU ) Is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2005 sales of 240 million tons of coal and $4.6 billion in revenues. Its coal products fuel more than 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation and 3 percent of worldwide electricity.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (NYSE: PVR) Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Penn Virginia Operating Co., LLC, leases its coal reserves to various third-party operators. The partnership operates in two segments, Coal Royalty and Land Leasing, and Coal Services.

Puda Coal, Inc. (OTCBB: PUDC) Through its affiliates and controlled entities, supplies premium grade coking coal to the steel making industry for use in making coke. The Company currently produces 1.1 million metric tons of cleaned coking coal annually, and management believes it is one of the largest suppliers of top grade coking coal in the Shanxi province of China. Shanxi province provides 20-25% of China's coal output and supplies nearly 50% of China's coke.

Quest Minerals & Mining Corp. (OTCBB: QMMG) Engages in the acquisition and operation of mineral properties in the southeastern part of the United States. It operates one drift mine at Burning Fork, which is four miles northeast of Pikeville Kentucky. Quest Minerals & Mining has a strategic alliance with Utek Corp. The company sells its coal to coal brokers.

SouthGobi Energy Resources, (TSX.V: SGQ) is focused on exploration and development of its Permian-age metallurgical and thermal coal deposits in Mongolia's South Gobi Region to supply a wide range of coal products and electricity to markets in Mongolia and China. The company is investigating the implementation of clean coal technologies in the development of a coal generating power plant to benefit all of its stakeholders. SouthGobi Energy Resources plans to pursue the potential application of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) technology to convert a portion of its resources into low-sulphur diesel, gasoline and naphtha.

Waratah Coal Inc (CDNX:WCI.V)

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West Hawk Development Corp. (TSX.V: WHD) Coal Creek Project in the Telkwa Basin of Northern British Columbia. The project consists of 900 hectares of Coal Licenses located at the confluence of the Zymoetz River and Coal Creek, 40 kilometers due West of Smithers, B.C.

Western Canadian Coal Corp. is a publicly traded Company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol “WTN”) and the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (“AIM”) (Symbol “WTN”). Western’s corporate and administrative offices are located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Company was founded in October 1997 for the purpose of acquiring, exploring and developing coal mining properties for the international metallurgical markets. The current focus of the Company is on bringing into production a high quality, low cost portfolio of assets in Northeast BC, Canada which will take advantage of the infrastructure already established for the Northeast BC coalfields, including rail, port, town and other facilities.

Westmoreland Coal Company (AMEX: WLB) is the oldest independent coal company in the United States. The Company's coal operations include Northern Powder River Basin coal mining in Montana and lignite mining operations in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas. Its power operations include ownership interests in two coal-fired and one natural gas-fired generating plant. Westmoreland is implementing a growth strategy dedicated to meeting America's dual goals of low-cost power and a clean environment through the acquisition and development of complementary, niche opportunities in coal, power and other segments of the energy sector.

YANZHOU COAL MNG CO (NYSE: YZC) Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited (YCM) engages in underground mining, preparation, and sale of coal, as well as the provision of railway coal transportation services in China. Its products primarily include thermal coal and semisoft coking coal used in electric power generation and metallurgical production

Coal Bed Methane Stocks (Coal bed methane is a clean-burning form of natural gas found in coal seams)

Crested Corp. (OTCBB: CBAG) Engages in the acquisition, exploration, sale, and/or development of minerals, including lead, zinc, silver, molybdenum, gold, uranium, and coalbed methane gas properties. Crested Corp. is a subsidiary of U.S. Energy Corp.

Galaxy Energy Corporation (AMEX: GAX) Engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas. It also acquires and develops coal bed methane and other unconventional and conventional natural gas properties in Wyoming, Montana, Texas, and Europe.

Keeper Resources Inc. (KEE: TSX-V) is a natural gas weighted Canadian producer focused on high impact international petroleum opportunities in Vietnam, a noted region of management expertise. Keeper’s international activities include offshore prospects that have allowed the corporation to establish a Gross Overriding Royalty on the 6000 square kilometer offshore Block 124 in the Phu Khanh Basin as well as strategically positioning the company for exploration of coal bed methane opportunities in Vietnam.

Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc. (OTCBB: POIG) Is an oil and gas producer whose primary focus is the development and production of oil, gas, and Coal Bed Methane (CBM) in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri. During the past three years Petrol acquired a large mineral acreage in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri that was geologically suitable for CBM development, as well as a producing property with 71 wells in the prolific Thayer Gas Field in Southeast Kansas.

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To: koan who wrote (104214)1/26/2008 9:14:48 AM
From: johnlw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 312988
 
What's the play- met. or thermal?



To: koan who wrote (104214)1/26/2008 3:05:59 PM
From: robnhood  Respond to of 312988
 
here's one maybe--- SCP--
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