Jim Walter Resources Mine disaster

Walter Energy, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	: WLT OTC Pink:
Industry	Coal Mining Energy
Headquarters	Galleria Tower Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Key people	Walt Scheller, Chief Executive Officer
Products	Coal Coke (fuel) Natural Gas Anthracite
Revenue	$2.7 billion USD (2011)
Number of employees	4,400 (2011, including contractors)
Website	www.walterenergy.com

Walter Energy, Inc., with its corporate and U.S. headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, and its Canadian & UK headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, was the world's leading, publicly traded "pure play" metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry. The Company also produces natural gas, steam coal and industrial coal, anthracite, metallurgical coke, and coal bed methane gas. The company Filed for bankruptcy in 2015. Its assets were purchased by Warrior Met Coal

The company's U.S. underground mines produced high-quality coal from Alabama's Blue Creek seam. Jim Walter Resources, the Company's U.S. underground coal mining unit, has grown from a small producer of less than 1 million tons of coal per year, produced solely for use in its sister company's coke ovens, into one of the 25 largest coal metallurgical coal producers in the United States, with 2010 metallurgical coal sales of approximately 6.0 million metric tons and plans to expand sales to 8.5 million metric tons of metallurgical coal by 2013. Its metallurgical coal mines, No. 4 and No. 7, are two of the deepest vertical shaft coal mines in North America at nearly 2,000 feet deep. The mines also produce a significant quantity of coal bed methane gas. Jim Walter Resources also operates the North River steam coal mine.

The U.S. Division operates the Maple Coal and Gauley Eagle mines in West Virginia, and mines in South Wales in Britain. These mines were formerly owned by Western Coal Corp.

Walter Minerals, an Alabama-based surface coal producer with a capacity of nearly 1.5 million tons, which produces coal for the Alabama steam and industrial coal markets, also is included in the Company's U.S. operations.

Walter Coke, the company's fuel coke producer, manufactures coke for use in blast furnaces and foundries. The Birmingham, Alabama company was formerly known as Sloss Industries.