Alliance Resource Partners LP (ARLP:NASDAQ)

Alliance is a diversified coal producer and marketer with operations in the eastern United States.  ARLP has mining operations in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, and Maryland.

Alliance is now the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States.

ARLP’s customer base includes utilities and industrial users. Coal is the energy source used by utilities to fuel approximately 45 percent of the electricity generated in the United States of America each year.  In 2012, more than 90 percent of ARLP’s sales tonnage was dedicated to electric utilities that have long-term contractual relationships with us.

Alliance was the coal-producing industry’s first publicly-traded master limited partnership. Alliance’s common units are traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol ARLP.