Peabody Energy

Peabody Energy Corp. engages in the business of coal mining. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and currently employs 5,400 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-04-03. The firm owns interests in coal mining operations located in the United States and Australia, including interests in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. The firm engages in the direct and brokered trading of coal and freight-related contracts. Its segments include Seaborne Thermal, Seaborne Metallurgical, Powder River Basin, Other U.S. Thermal, and Corporate and Other. The Seaborne Thermal operations consist of mines in New South Wales, Australia. The mines in that segment utilize both surface and underground extraction processes to mine low-sulfur, high Btu thermal coal. The Seaborne Metallurgical operations consist of mines in Queensland, Australia, one in New South Wales, Australia and one in Alabama, the United States. The firm owns the southern portion of the Wards Well tenement.