Directory:Arch Coal

Arch Coal, Inc.
Slogan	N/A
Type	Public (NYSE: ACI)
Founded	Merger of publicly traded Ashland Coal, Inc. and privately held Arch Mineral Corporation in July 1997
Headquarters	St. Louis, Missouri
Key people	Steven F. Leer, Chairman/CEO John W. Eaves, President/COO
Industry	Coal mining
Products	Coal
Revenue	$2.51 billion U.S dollars (2005)
Employees	3,600 (2006)
Contact	{{{contact}}}
Reference	Year End: 12/31 DUNS: na NAICS: 21211

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Arch Coal, Inc. NYSE: ACI is the second-largest coal producer in the United States, claiming to contribute approximately 12% of America’s coal supply (140 million tons in 2005). The company's mines are located in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia. The corporate headquarters are in St. Louis, Missouri.

The company claims an expansive reserve totaling 3.1 billion tons of mostly low-sulfur coal.

Arch Coal is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ACI.

History

Arch Mineral Corporation began in 1969, as a partnership between Ashland Oil (now Ashland, Inc.) and the Hunt family of Dallas. Arch Coal was formed in July 1997 by merger of this privately held Arch Mineral and publicly traded Ashland Coal, Inc., which had been formed in 1975 as a subsidiary of Ashland Oil.

In June 1998, Arch Coal purchased the coal assets of Atlantic Richfield, which were mostly in the central Rocky Mountains.

External links

• Arch Coal, Inc., official website
• Company profile at Google Finance

Provenance of this article

Note about license: The original version of any wiki-formatted article about the Arch Coal company was authored in September 2006 by Gregory Kohs and released under the terms of the GFDL on this website, MyWikiBiz.com. It was then copied into Wikipedia under the same GFDL terms. In October 2006, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales acted to delete the article from Wikipedia, but the Wikipedia community determined that Wales' action had been unjustified. The article was revised, largely by "User:JzG" (Guy Chapman, a volunteer administrator on Wikipedia). However, in January 2008, Kohs demonstrated to Chapman that the article as modified by him (User:JzG) actually plagiarized many aspects of the original. Faced with that evidence, Chapman elected to cover up his misdeed by deleting the original edits on the Wikipedia site, thus making the provenance of the article appear to have come from Chapman, and not from MyWikiBiz. When Jimmy Wales was notified about this violation of professional ethics and proper GFDL attribution of the edit history, after days of waffling on the issue, Wales very reluctantly restored the original edit history, with the childish edit summary, "might as well restore all of it I suppose".

Additional comment: When in December 2008, Gregory Kohs sought to improve the article about Arch Coal on Wikipedia, his improvements were reverted back by a mindless administrator from Belgium. This underscores the true system of editorial control on Wikipedia -- it matters not the content of your edits, but rather who authors the content. (Which, of course, directly contradicts Wikipedia's "stated" mission that "anyone can edit".)