Arch Coal halves quarter-to-quarter met coal output at Leer mine in W.Va.

摘要

Arch Coal Inc. reported production at Leer, one of the company’srntop metallurgical coal mines, has fallen to nearly half of the levelrnreported in the previous quarter.rnAccording to early reported U.S. Mine Safety and HealthrnAdministration data available through SNL Energy, Arch’s Leer minernproduced just 520,004 tons of coal in the second quarter, downrnabout half from 1.0 million tons in the first quarter. After the firstrnquarter, the company indicated that the particularly high productionrnreported in that period could decline in the next due to longwallrnmoves scheduled at both Leer and the Mountain Laurel complex forrnthe second quarter.