Alpha Metallurgical Resources

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc.
FormerlyContura Energy, Inc.
Company typePublic company
NYSEAMR
S&P 600 component
IndustryMetals and mining
PredecessorAlpha Natural Resources
FoundedJuly 26, 2016
HeadquartersBristol, Tennessee, U.S.
Key people
Andy Eidson (CEO, Chairman)
ProductsCoking and steam coal
Number of employees
2,300[1]
DivisionsDominion Terminal Associates (41%)
Alpha Holdings
ANR Inc.
Websitealphametresources.com

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, formerly Contura Energy (January 2021), is a leading coal supplier with underground and surface coal mining complexes across Northern and Central Appalachia. Contura owns large coal basins in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia which supply both metallurgical coal to produce steel and thermal coal to generate power.

The volatile nature of the coal mining sector in the US bankrupted predecessor Alpha Natural Resources in 2015, seven years removed from Alpha's $7.1 billion takeover of Massey Energy. The majority of its workers are non-unionized.[2]

In 2011 Alpha was America's third largest and world's fifth largest coal producer.[2] In the 2012 Forbes Global 2000, Alpha Natural Resources was ranked as the 1847th -largest public company in the world.[3]

  1. ^ "Contura Energy Company Profile". Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference history was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Forbes Global 2000". Retrieved 31 October 2020.