Who We Are
Core Natural Resources is a world-class, forward-looking, U.S. corporation committed to discovering, producing, and providing precious natural resources in the service of human progress. The contributions of coal continue to sustain and enhance our lives by fulfilling society’s most basic needs. From playing a critical role in producing materials like steel and cement that are essential for infrastructure buildout and economic growth, to meeting the world’s rising demand for electricity, the coal we produce fuels our modern life.
Core Natural Resources provides its customers around the world with high-quality, low-cost coals ranging from metallurgical to high-calorific value thermal coals. Core owns and oversees 11 major coal mining operations across the country, including one of the largest, most efficient, longwall coal mining complexes in North America. Our mining operations also include one of the most productive metallurgical coal portfolios in the United States. With a diversified portfolio of coal products serving multiple industries across the globe, Core is well-positioned for future success.
OUR RESOURCES HELP BRING LIFE TO THE WORLD AROUND US.
We are a leading U.S. producer and exporter of premium, high-quality coal. If you look deeper, we are so much more. The coal we extract, process, and export is foundational to critical markets around the world. Our products are vital to the transportation, construction, agriculture, and energy industries. At Core Natural Resources, we play a key role in supplying critical raw materials that drive society forward.
Core Natural Resources
By the Numbers*
5000+
Number of employees
6
States with Core operations
5
Continents with Core customers
≈12 million
Tons of metallurgical coal capacity per year
25 million
Tons of owned export coal capacity per year
≈30 million
Tons of high calorific thermal coal per year
71%
Global steel production using met coal as a feedstock
48%
Projected growth in global demand for cement by 2050
9.7 billion
Tons of global coal demand in 2024—an all-time high
*All data is approximate and can change over time. All data is based on historical pro forma results and is not an indicator of future performance.
Serving Global Markets
From our world-class asset base of highly efficient and low-cost operations, we consistently produce and deliver product qualities that are recognized and sought after in the United States and around the world.
Core Natural Resources serves multiple global growth markets through ownership of two strategic export terminals along the US Eastern Seaboard. Our CMT shipping operation located in Baltimore, Maryland has a stated export capacity of 20 million tons annually, and our ownership interest in DTA shipping operation in Norfolk, Virginia adds an additional allocated capacity of over 5 million tons. In addition to CMT and DTA, Core Natural Resources has multiple longstanding relationships that provide strategic access to ports along the West Coast, East Coast, and Gulf of Mexico.
We also believe the long-term utilization of high-quality coal is essential to support population growth, urbanization, and development around the world. Our metallurgical coal, primarily used in steelmaking applications, is situated to serve evolving markets and end-users, providing critical inputs in the construction of a strong and sustainable new economy. Our high calorific value coal is essential for construction, agriculture, and water filtration, and provides the affordable and reliable electricity needed to enable economic and social progress.
Core Values & Principles
Core Natural Resources is a values-based company with safety, sustainability, and continuous improvement as first principles. In every decision we make, along with the subsequent actions we take, Core employees seek to operate our business in a manner that exceeds the expectations of fellow employees, business partners, shareholders, legislative and regulatory bodies, and the communities where we live and operate.
Safety
Core Natural Resources holds an absolute belief that nothing is more important than the safety and health of our employees and neighbors. Our safety program is based on three main principles: empowerment, industrial health and wellness, and training. With a proactive culture of communication, feedback, and teamwork, our standard is striving to operate at a best-in-class safety performance level consistently outpacing industry averages.
Sustainability
Core Natural Resources defines sustainability as supporting long-term human progress that both benefits and balances environmental, economic, and societal goals. To reach our sustainability objectives, we seek to develop our assets in ways that facilitate safe operations, promote permit compliance, minimize environmental impacts, foster productive post-mining land uses, protect ecological resources, and engage meaningful mitigation strategies as needed.
Continuous Improvement
Core Natural Resources embraces the fundamental need to continuously innovate and welcome change. This mindset permeates our entire organization, underground, in the field, and in the office. Every day, this belief system translates into concrete policy and operational actions, including our training and communications, proactively identifying best-in-class processes and methods, maintaining a culture of transparency, and reinforcing our values of integrity and accountability.
Our approach to sustainability and environmental stewardship is embodied in our love of the outdoors where our employees work, play, and relax. In close partnership with regulatory agencies, we continue to invest in land reclamation and water restoration projects. We strive to leverage technology and innovation to enhance our environmental performance, beyond minimum compliance obligations. Our commitment to the communities where we live and operate is underscored by a genuine adherence to ethical business practices and our guiding principles.
Our History & Heritage
A Merger of Equals
Core Natural Resources was established in January 2025 as a merger of equals between Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy. In 2023, before joining forces, Arch and CONSOL together sold approximately 101 million tons of coal to steelmaking, industrial and power-generation customers. Their combined 2023 revenues were approximately $5.7 billion.
Both CONSOL Energy and Arch Resources share a proud and long heritage as innovative leaders in the U.S. mining industry. With Arch’s focus on metallurgical products and CONSOL’s emphasis on industrial, power generation, and marine terminal operations, the company’s combined product offerings are both complementary and diverse, providing exceptional value to our customers.
CONSOL Energy
CONSOL and its predecessors have been mining coal since 1864, powering the nation with affordable, abundant, reliable domestic energy, while creating family-sustaining jobs, and keeping our nation competitive in the global marketplace. With over 160 years of adapting to market trends and industry needs, CONSOL is no stranger to change. Now as Core Natural Resources, the company has once again successfully evolved. As a result of the merger with Arch Resources, the new entity will have access to key growth industrial markets such as steel, cement, and brick manufacturing while being well positioned to serve the resurgent power generation demand driven by artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, and electric vehicle (EV) expansion.
As the world moves steadily closer to a lower-carbon economy, Core is ideally situated to satisfy global needs as a responsible energy transition plays out over decades to come.
Arch Resources
Arch Resources has successfully transitioned into global coking coal markets in recent years after focusing principally on thermal markets during its first decades of existence. Established in 1969, the company completed a successful merger of equals in 1997 between Arch Mineral and Ashland Coal to form Arch Coal, later changing its name to Arch Resources to underscore the growing importance of its metallurgical production in its sales mix. In recent years, the company has become a leading U.S. producer of metallurgical coal for sale to international and U.S. steel producers. Complementing that metallurgical position, Arch’s West Elk mine produces high-rank, low-sulfur thermal coal for export into international markets via ports on both the West Coast and Gulf of Mexico, as well as for sale to industrial customers in North America. Arch’s Powder Basin operations are anchored by the Black Thunder mine, which is one of the largest coal mines in the world.
The merger of Arch Resources and CONSOL Energy into Core Natural Resources holds the promise of bringing even more meaningful benefits to emerging societies around the world, while also achieving greater efficiencies, market reach, and sustainability achievements.
