There are several points in the wash plant that many coal operations choose to sample.

The exemption had been intended to shield small coal operations from the law's strict provisions on land restoration.

The company planned to keep its coal operations in the eastern United States.

It said extraordinary charges of $6,798,000 in 1988 and $11,191,000 in 1987 are related to its discontinued coal operations.

It has some coal operations and a small oil and gas exploration unit.

In the early 1910s Montgomery was the shipping center for 26 different coal operations.

The experiments were discontinued and R 707 was converted back to black coal operation in 1957.

The company's coal operations and its natural gas transmission business are also considered candidates for sale.

No buyer has yet been found, Bethlehem said, adding that the coal operations will likely be sold piecemeal.

The federal government's plans to gradually shut down coal operations during the 1970s were derailed by rising world energy prices and changes in political priorities.