Knight Hawk Coal Expects Record Steam Coal Production in 2018

Until a few months ago, southern Illinois’ Knight Hawk Coal LLC seemingly was on track to acquire Armstrong Energy Inc. and its Armstrong Coal subsidiary out of bankruptcy. The move would have almost doubled Knight Hawk’s annual production of high-sulfur Illinois Basin steam coal to more than 9 million tons. But at the last minute, along came much larger Murray Energy Corp. with a better offer and the rest, as they say, is history.
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