Coal Mining Making a Comeback in Kentucky

SUGAR LAND--May 5, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Newly formed Armstrong Coal Company Incorporated (Madisonville, Kentucky) has big plans for coal mining in Kentucky where it plans to mine 8 million tons by 2012. The company is one of many coal mining firms that are in the process of expanding mining capacity in western Kentucky. Armstrong Coal has reopened underground mining operations at the Big Run coal mine, which it purchased from Peabody Energy in 2006.