Contact Information:
Pocahontas Land Corporation
800 Princeton Avenue
Bluefield, WV 24701
Phone - (304) 324-2400

Pocahontas Land Corporation (Pocahontas) and its subsidiary, Pocahontas Development Corporation, headquartered in Bluefield, West Virginia, own and/or manage over one million acres of natural resource properties in Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Pocahontas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Corporation (Norfolk Southern).

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Pocahontas Land Corporation - 2008 Statistics
Acres owned or managed	1,030,715
Gross Revenue	$72.8 million
Coal Mining Lessees	94
No. Active Mines	132
Annual Coal Production	24.5 million tons
Coal Reserves	1.74 billion tons
Coal Reserves Tributary to NS	4.30 billion tons
Total Tons Mined	1.95 billion tons

Quality Data

By Volatile Matter
Low-volatile	315 million
Mid-volatile	88 million
High-volatile	1,332 million

By Sulfur Content
Compliance	573 million
Low sulfur	806 million
High sulfur	356 million

Volatile Matter
Volatile matter is a key coal characteristic that coke producers consider in determining coal blends for their coke that goes into blast furnaces.

Sulfur Content
Compliance < 1.2 lbs. S02 / mmBtu
Low-sulfur 1.2-2.5 lbs. S02 / mmBtu
High-sulfur > 2.5 S02 / mmBtu

Mining Operations

Pocahontas has various types of mining operations on its properties, including mountaintop removal surface mining operations, truck and shovel surface mining, underground mining machines, and longwall underground mining machines. The purchase, consolidation and development of its natural resource properties make possible the extension of its lessees’ mining operations while ensuring employment by promoting maximum recovery during production.

Mining operations

Environmental Stewardship

The company’s commitment to responsible stewardship extends to the environment, to the communities and to the economic health of the region in which we operate. Pocahontas is a leader in safe, efficient and environmentally sound management, working hand-in-hand with lessees to make sure the land’s resources are brought to market in a way that best benefits all concerned.

Through partnerships with educational institutions and others, we have helped determine the best uses of reclaimed mining areas, such as the dramatic transformation of mountainous mining sites into gently rolling, useable land. Many of our reclamation efforts have produced community recreational and economic opportunities that would not have existed absent our stewardship.

Over the past 100 years, the company has provided more than 110,000 acres for educational, economic and recreational use. The most visible examples in West Virginia are sites for high schools in McDowell and Mercer Counties, Twin Falls State Park in Wyoming County, and an 18-hole golf course in Mingo County. Pocahontas donated 42 acres of flatland for development of housing for families displaced by the disastrous floods of 2001 in southern West Virginia.

As you can see, Pocahontas takes its role as caretaker seriously and Pocahontas’ employees are committed to its vision statement –

Vision statement

Contact Information

Pocahontas now manages the oil and gas reserves owned by Norfolk Southern and its subsidiaries.

For information regarding Oil and Gas Leases on Norfolk Southern properties, please contact

Mr. James M. Kinder
Engineer Special Projects
Pocahontas Land Corporation
P. O. Box 1517
Bluefield, West Virginia 24701
304-324-2417

For information regarding Coal matters on Norfolk Southern properties, please contact

Mr. Burton Perry
Senior Manager Mining & Coal Resources
Pocahontas Land Corporation
P. O. Box 1517
Bluefield, West Virginia 24701
304-324-2431