CARTER ROAG COAL COMPANY
HC 58 Box 200
Mill Creek, WV  26280
304-335-2145 - Tel • 304-335-2163 - Fax

United Coal Company purchased permitted reserves in Randolph and Upshur counties in West Virginia in October 2004. The property was formerly operated as Carter Roag Coal Company and had produced mid- to high-volatile metallurgical Sewell coal for several decades. Located near Elkins, W.Va., Carter Roag’s Pleasant Hill Mine is the only operating underground mine in Randolph County.

Over the past 18 months, United Coal has reopened and expanded closed facilities at the Pleasant Hill and 1A Mines, constructed a new 500 tons-per-hour coal preparation plant at Star Bridge, and rehabilitated the short line railroad on the property. Pleasant Hill had its first production in January 2005.

Operating in Randolph and Upshur Counties, Carter Roag has nearly 200 employees and controls more than 50 million recoverable tons of high-volatile metallurgical coal reserves in the Sewell seam. Carter Roag mining operations produced more than 650,000 clean tons in 2006, and in 2007, annual production is expected to increase to more than 1 million clean tons.

Carter Roag’s future plans include the development of what is believed to be the largest contiguous block of high grade Sewell coal remaining in West Virginia.   Preliminary engineering is currently being conducted for a new 2 million clean tons per year operation located close to Elkins in Norton, W.Va.  This expansion includes a new preparation plant, unit train loadout, slope and office facility, and is expected to employ more than 400 miners.