Rhino Resource Partners LP, together with its subsidiaries, produces, processes, and sells various grades of steam and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines in the United States. As of December 31, 2012, it operated nine mines, including four underground and five surface mines located in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and Utah; and two underground mines in West Virginia through a joint venture. The company markets its steam coal primarily to electric utility companies as fuel for their steam powered generators; and metallurgical coal to steel and coke producers. It also manages and leases coal properties; owns and leases oil and gas mineral rights in the Cana Woodford region of western Oklahoma and Utica Shale region of eastern Ohio; mines and sells limestone from reserves located at Sands Hill mining complex to construction companies and road builders; and provides drill pad construction services. The company controlled an estimated 463.7 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves consisting of an estimated 442.8 million tons of steam coal and an estimated 20.9 million tons of metallurgical coal, as well as 417.4 million tons of non-reserve coal deposits. It also controlled an estimated 43.1 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves at the Rhino Eastern mining complex located in Central Appalachia through a joint venture. Rhino GP LLC operates as a general partner of the company. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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