The Department of the Interior announced Tuesday it’s moving forward with the sale of several coal industry leases this fall, including two in Tuscaloosa County.
According to the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management will be offering two Alabama lease areas. The areas cover access to a combined 14,050 acres beneath private lands, which the interior department said contains roughly 53 million tons of recoverable metallurgical coal.
Applications for the leases were filed by subsidiaries of Warrior Met Coal Inc., Warrior Met Coal Mining LLC, and Warrior Met Coal BC, LLC, in order to expand the mining company’s existing operations in Tuscaloosa County…