By Hazel Chen

May 20, 2019 - Contura Energy, the leading U.S. coal mining company, announced that it would invest US$25 million to US$30 million to drive a new metallurgical coal project in the Lynn Branch, Logan County of West Virginia. 

Contura Energy planned to start mining in the Lynn Branch mine in 2019 and started mass production in the second quarter of 2020. The mine was expected to produce about 1 million to 1.2 million tons of high-quality, high volume metallurgical coal annually. 

Contura Energy's coal sales in the first quarter of 2019 increased by 1.88 million tons, an increase of 54.2% year-on-year.