Arch Coal Inc. is considering the sale of its Pardee and Lone Mountain coal facilities, the company has announced.
Another Arch facility in Pike County, Ky., Coal-Mac, could be sold also. The three mine works and accompanying facilities employ a combined 575 people.
The company is considering the sale to reduce debt and to fit its strategy of operating larger-scale facilities, said Deck S. Slone, Arch communications and public affairs director, in a Monday telephone interview from the company's St. Louis, Mo. headquarters.
But company officials stress the sale is not a done deal - only a possibility.

The Coalfield Progress April 14, 1999.