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January 31, 2011

Alpha Natural Purchases Massey Energy to Form Coal Giant 
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Alpha Natural Resources has purchased Massey Energy for $8.6 billion.
The merger will create the second-largest U.S. coal company in the
United States. Last April, 29 miners died in an explosion at a West
Virginia mine owned by Massey.



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