Metinvest broke ground on a new project August 3 near Ellamore, in Randolph County. Roaring Creek Coal Company, LLC will start operations during January 2013 and will add another 1.6 million tons of high quality coking coal to Metinvest’s capacity. Once completed, the mine complex will produce 1.6 million tons of high quality metallurgical coal per year, create 258 high paying jobs, and generate more than $11 million in severance and excise tax revenue annually.
The project is a $150 million investment in the economy of northeast West Virginia by Metinvest and United Coal Company.
“We are very pleased that this groundbreaking has occurred less than one month following the grand opening of our Affinity Mine,” states Michael Zervos, President of United Coal Company - Metinvest’s overseas coal subsidiary. “These projects are the foundation of Metinvest’s growth strategy for UCC- by 2014 our operations will produce more than eight million tons of processed coal per year, of which approximately 85 percent will be high quality metallurgical coal. Nearly five million tons will be produced annually in West Virginia.”