Pontiki

Pontiki Coal, LLC (Pontiki Coal) owns Pontiki, an underground mining complex located near the city of Inez in Martin County, Kentucky. We constructed the mine in 1977. Pontiki owns the mining complex and leases the reserves, and Excel Mining, LLC(Excel), an affiliate of Pontiki, conducts all mining operations. Our Pontiki operation utilizes continuous mining units employing room-and-pillar mining techniques. The preparation plant has a throughput capacity of 900 tons of raw coal an hour. In the fourth quarter of 2005, Pontiki migrated some of its mining units from the Pond Creek seam into the Van Lear seam, and full production in the Van Lear seam was reached in the second quarter 2006. As a result, production at Pontiki is now roughly 50% Pond Creek seam coal and 50% Van Lear seam coal. Coal produced in 2007 remained low sulfur, but because of changes in geology and production from the Van Lear seam, it no longer met the compliance requirements of Phase II of the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA). Coal produced from the mine is shipped in large part to electric utilities located in the southeastern United States and also to industrial or stoker users throughout the eastern United States via the Norfolk Southern railroad or by truck via U.S. and state highways to various docks on the Big Sandy River in Kentucky.

Pontiki
HC 67, Box 615
Pilgrim, KY 41250
Phone: (606) 395-5348
Fax: (606) 395-5529