WELLMORE COAL COMPANY
P.O. Box 458
Big Rock, VA 24603
276-530-7411 - Tel • 276-530-9039 - Fax

In January 2006, United Coal Company purchased The Rapoca Group, LLC, headquartered in Bristol, Va. In recognition of United Coal’s origins in Buchanan County, Va., United Coal renamed the operation Wellmore Coal Company, which currently has more than 300 employees.

Wellmore’s preparation plant and loadout facilities in Big Rock, Va., known as Wellmore #7 and #8, were originally built by United Coal. In fact, Wellmore #7 was United Coal’s first prep plant. Many of the Rapoca employees hired by Wellmore Coal after the acquisition of Rapoca are former United Coal employees who were welcomed back to the United Coal family.

Wellmore Coal’s reserves, which total more than 55 million tons, are primarily mid/high volatile and low sulfur steam reserves in the Splashdam, Banner, Glamorgan, Jawbone and Hagy seams. Its deep and surface mining operations are located throughout Buchanan, Tazewell and Dickenson counties in Virginia, with additional reserves located in Pike County, Ky., and McDowell County, W.Va. Through company-owned and contract operations, Wellmore Coal operates nine underground mines, four surface mines, and three preparation plants and rail loading facilities.

Wellmore’s Splashdam reserves are some of the most sought after mid/high volatile coal in the Central Appalachian basin. United Coal’s sales team has a long and successful history of selling this coal to domestic and international customers.

United Coal believes its familiarity in operating the original United Coal, combined with the discipline and expertise of the “new” United Coal Company, LLC, will lead to Wellmore re-emerging as a dominant supplier of mid/high volatile metallurgical coal. Wellmore Coal produced 1.4 million clean tons in 2006 and is expected to increase production to 2.3 million clean tons in 2007.