Segment Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Mar. 31, 2012

Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]

Industry segment results

Industry segment results for the three months ended March 31, 2013 are:

	Thermal		Low Volatile Metallurgical		High Volatile Metallurgical		Other Coal			Total Coal		Coalbed Methane		Marcellus Shale		Shallow Oil and Gas			Other Gas			Total Gas			All Other			Corporate, Adjustments & Eliminations			Consolidated
Sales—outside	$	761,272	$	146,828	$	58,622	$	5,663		$	972,385	$	83,640	$	48,411	$	32,436		$	3,355		$	167,842		$	85,938		$	—		$	1,226,165		(A)
Sales—purchased gas	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			1,358			1,358			—			—			1,358
Sales—gas royalty interests	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			14,204			14,204			—			—			14,204
Freight—outside	—		—		—		14,061			14,061		—		—		—			—			—			—			—			14,061
Intersegment transfers	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			836			836			35,477			(36,313		)	—
Total Sales and Freight	$	761,272	$	146,828	$	58,622	$	19,724		$	986,446	$	83,640	$	48,411	$	32,436		$	19,753		$	184,240		$	121,415		$	(36,313	)	$	1,255,788
Earnings (Loss) Before Income Taxes	$	128,432	$	54,717	$	13,352	$	(102,999	)	$	93,502	$	21,312	$	13,768	$	(4,161	)	$	(31,559	)	$	(640	)	$	(40,552	)	$	(53,609	)	$	(1,299	)	(B)
Segment assets										$	5,698,504											$	5,879,988		$	358,663		$	656,039		$	12,593,194		(C)
Depreciation, depletion and amortization										$	102,711											$	52,399		$	6,205		$	—		$	161,315
Capital expenditures										$	197,338											$	207,130		$	1,504		$	—		$	405,972

(A)    Included in the Coal segment are sales of $170,982 to First Energy and $183,121 to Xcoal Energy & Resources each comprising over 10% of sales.

(B)     Includes equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates of $817, $3,182 and $798 for Coal, Gas and All Other, respectively.

(C)    Includes investments in unconsolidated equity affiliates of $20,334, $167,058 and $60,735 for Coal, Gas and All Other, respectively.

Industry segment results for the three months ended March 31, 2012 are:

	Thermal		Low Volatile Metallurgical		High Volatile Metallurgical		Other Coal			Total Coal		Coalbed Methane		Marcellus Shale		Shallow Oil and Gas			Other Gas			Total Gas		All Other		Corporate, Adjustments & Eliminations			Consolidated
Sales—outside	$	812,053	$	172,740	$	60,568	$	8,955		$	1,054,316	$	99,535	$	23,791	$	34,373		$	2,504		$	160,203	$	96,952	$	—		$	1,311,471	(D)
Sales—purchased gas	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			839			839		—		—			839
Sales—gas royalty interests	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			12,206			12,206		—		—			12,206
Freight—outside	—		—		—		49,293			49,293		—		—		—			—			—		—		—			49,293
Intersegment transfers	—		—		—		—			—		—		—		—			466			466		37,209		(37,675		)	—
Total Sales and Freight	$	812,053	$	172,740	$	60,568	$	58,248		$	1,103,609	$	99,535	$	23,791	$	34,373		$	16,015		$	173,714	$	134,161	$	(37,675	)	$	1,373,809
Earnings (Loss) Before Income Taxes	$	128,449	$	79,341	$	15,936	$	(61,256	)	$	162,470	$	36,390	$	3,251	$	(3,722	)	$	(23,419	)	$	12,500	$	4,083	$	(60,476	)	$	118,577	(E)
Segment assets										$	5,360,577											$	6,110,585	$	358,746	$	765,703		$	12,595,611	(F)
Depreciation, depletion and amortization										$	100,762											$	48,803	$	5,782	$	—		$	155,347
Capital expenditures										$	194,429											$	98,455	$	13,562	$	—		$	306,446

(D) Included in the Coal segment are sales of $144,155 to First Energy and $138,341 to Xcoal Energy & Resources each comprising over 10% of sales.

(E) Includes equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates of $4,807, $1,944 and $1,184 for Coal, Gas and All Other, respectively.

(F)    Includes investments in unconsolidated equity affiliates of $39,373, $108,858 and $51,990 for Coal, Gas and All Other, respectively.

Reconciliation of Revenue and Operating Income from Segments to Consolidated

Earnings Before Income Taxes:

	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2013			2012
Segment Earnings Before Income Taxes for total reportable business segments	$	92,862		$	174,970
Segment (Loss) Earnings Before Income Taxes for all other businesses	(40,552		)	4,083
Interest expense, net and other non-operating activity (G)	(52,660		)	(60,042		)
Other Corporate Items (G)	(949		)	(434		)
(Loss) Earnings Before Income Taxes	$	(1,299	)	$	118,577

Reconciliation of Assets and Liabilities from Segment to Consolidated

Total Assets:	March, 31
	2013		2012
Segment assets for total reportable business segments	$	11,578,492	$	11,471,162
Segment assets for all other businesses	358,663		358,746
Items excluded from segment assets:
Cash and other investments (G)	23,669		121,807
Recoverable income taxes	6,602		—
Deferred tax assets	585,829		596,657
Bond issuance costs	39,939		47,239
Total Consolidated Assets	$	12,593,194	$	12,595,611

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(G) Excludes amounts specifically related to the gas segment.