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American Consolidated Natural Resources

American coal mining company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

American Consolidated Natural Resources, previously known as Murray Energy, is a US-based coal mining company. It is the fourth largest coal producer in the country, and the largest privately owned coal company. Founded in 1988 by Robert E. Murray, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2019. The company gained notoriety following the collapse of the Crandall Canyon Mine in 2007, following a number of citations and fines for safety practices at the site.

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“American Consolidated Natural Resources” enters the record as american coal mining company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what American, Consolidated and Natural can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2019, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around American, Consolidated and Natural.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2019 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “American Consolidated Natural Resources” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.