Rashda Buttar

Patriot Coal Corp. engages in the mining, preparation, and sale of thermal and metallurgical coal with coal reserves. The company was founded on September 25, 2006 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Foresight Energy LP engages in the production and marketing of thermal coal. It specializes in the operation and development of mining complexes with long wall mining systems. The firm has its operations in in the Illinois basin region. The company was founded by Chris Cline on January 26, 2006 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

TALX Corp. provided human resources and payroll business process outsourcing services. The firm offered employment verification, unemployment tax management, paperless pay, on boarding, and learning solutions. The company was founded in 1971 and was headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Part of Foresight Energy LP, Foresight Energy GP LLC is a leading producer of thermal coal with over 2 billion tons of coal reserves, sufficient to support over 75 years of production at their current level. The company is based in St. Louis, MO, and Robert Dean Moore has been the CEO since 2015. The company operates three mining complexes in the United States and has invested heavily in logistics to provide multiple modes of transportation to the end-users of their coal, including rail, barge, and trucks. Foresight Energy GP aims to be low cost on a delivered basis and has the ability to access multiple rail carriers.