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SunCoke Energy Provides Update on Coal Mining Divestiture

Given the increasingly difficult coal price environment, it’s unlikely the company will reach a definitive sale agreement for the Coal Mining business in fourth quarter 2014. While it will continue to actively pursue the sale of its Coal Mining business, it is updating its contingency plans to scale back mining operations, which will include the idling or potential closure of some mining operations.
 

SunCoke Energy Inc. is the largest independent producer of coke in the Americas, with 50 years of experience supplying coke to the integrated steel industry. Our advanced, heat-recovery cokemaking process produces high-quality coke for use in steelmaking, typically captures waste heat for derivative energy resale and meets or exceeds environmental standards. Our U.S. cokemaking facilities are located in Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Outside the U.S., we have cokemaking operations in Vitoria, Brazil and Odisha, India. Our coal mining operations, which have more than 110 million tons of proven and probable reserves, are located in Virginia and West Virginia. In addition, through our 56 percent ownership of SXCP, we have an interest in SXCP's coal logistics business, which has the collective capacity to blend and transload more than 30 million tons of coal annually.