Alpha Natural Resources Announces Availability of Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Financial Results

BRISTOL, Va., Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Natural Resources ANR, a leading U.S. coal producer, plans to report its fourth quarter and full year 2012 results before the market opens on Thursday, February 14, 2013.  A conference call to review the results and current business conditions is scheduled to follow at 10:00 a.m. EST that morning.

The conference call will be webcast live on the Internet, and the webcast will be available for replay following the event.  The live webcast and the replay will be available on the company's investor relations Web site at http://alnr.client.shareholder.com/.  In addition, a telephonic replay will be available through February 28, 2013, by calling 877-660-6853 or 201-612-7415 and entering the conference ID 407794.  Also, a podcast of the call will be available for downloading on the company's Web site following the call.

About Alpha Natural Resources

With $7.1 billion in total revenue in 2011, Alpha Natural Resources ranks as America's third-largest coal producer by revenue and third-largest by production.  Alpha is the nation's largest supplier of metallurgical coal used in the steel-making process and is a major supplier of thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries.  In 2011, the Company had more than 200 customers on five continents.  More information about Alpha can be found on the company's Web site at www.alphanr.com.  

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