6. LOSS ON IMPAIRMENT

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, the Company recorded an asset impairment charge to various assets within our Coal - U.S. and Coal - WMLP segments in the amounts of $65.6 million and $77.7 million, respectively, in Loss on impairment in the Consolidated Statements of Operations (unaudited). The Company determined that indicators of impairment existed with respect to the following:

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AEP Generation Resources Inc. (“AEP”) declined WMLP’s bid to supply coal to AEP’s Conesville Power Plant Units 5 and 6 for periods subsequent to the expiration of the parties' current contract which expires on December 31, 2018. Coal sales under the Ohio Operations’ current coal supply contract to AEP’s Conesville Power Plant Units 5 and 6 represented a substantial portion of the Coal - WMLP segment revenues generated from the Ohio Operations for the year ended December 31, 2017.


•	a current period operating loss and a projection of continuing losses associated with the use of a long lived asset group based on reassessments of our life of mine models as part of our restructuring efforts.

The Company performed a recoverability analysis as of June 30, 2018 and determined that the net undiscounted cash flows were less than the carrying values for the Ohio mines, Absaloka mine, Beulah mine and Buckingham mine long-lived assets groups within the Coal - WMLP and Coal - U.S. segments. As a result, the Company estimated the fair value of the long-lived asset groups using a discounted cash flow analysis using marketplace participant assumptions which constituted Level 3 fair value inputs. The discounted cash flow analysis is dependent on a number of significant management estimates about future performance including sales volumes and prices, which are based on projected revenues based on expected economic conditions, costs to produce, income taxes, capital spending, working capital changes and the after-tax weighted average cost of capital. The estimates of costs to produce include labor, fuel, explosives, supplies and other major components of mining. The Company estimated the fair value of certain property, plant and equipment and intangible assets using the market approach. To the extent that the carrying values of the long-lived asset groups exceeded the respective fair values, the Company recorded an asset impairment charge, as can be seen by segment and asset type in the table below for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018.



	Reportable Segment
	Coal - U.S.		Coal - WMLP		Consolidated
	(In thousands)
Asset impairment charges:
Land, mineral rights, property, plant and equipment, net	$	59,262	$	50,717	$	109,979
Advanced coal royalties	4,719		3,145		7,864
Other assets	1,668		23,813		25,481
	$	65,649	$	77,675	$	143,324