UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)
þ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September
June 30, 20182019

or
¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from ____________ to ____________
Commission File Number: 1-16463

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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATIONCORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 13-4004153
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
701 Market Street,St. Louis,Missouri 63101-1826
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(314) (314342-3400
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per shareBTUNew York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yesþ   No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yesþ   No ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. (Check one):Act:

Large accelerated filer þ
Accelerated filer ¨
Non-accelerated filer ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company ¨
Emerging growth company ¨
Large accelerated filer☑                         Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)         Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ¨ No þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Sections 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court. Yes þ No ¨
There were 114.5103.6 million shares of the registrant’s common stock (par value of $0.01 per share) outstanding at October 29, 2018.August 2, 2019.







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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions, except per share data)
Revenues$1,149.0
 $1,309.4
 $2,399.6
 $2,772.1
Costs and expenses       
Operating costs and expenses (exclusive of items shown separately below)858.2
 946.5
 1,806.6
 2,003.7
Depreciation, depletion and amortization165.4
 163.9
 337.9
 333.5
Asset retirement obligation expenses15.3
 13.2
 29.1
 25.5
Selling and administrative expenses38.9
 44.1
 75.6
 81.1
Transaction costs related to business combinations and joint ventures1.6
 
 1.6
 
Other operating (income) loss:  
    
Net (gain) loss on disposals(0.2) 1.6
 (1.7) (29.0)
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss
 
 24.7
 
North Goonyella insurance recovery
 
 (125.0) 
Income from equity affiliates(9.7) (25.2) (13.2) (47.2)
Operating profit79.5
 165.3
 264.0
 404.5
Interest expense36.0
 38.3
 71.8
 74.6
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 2.0
 
 2.0
Interest income(7.2) (7.0) (15.5) (14.2)
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost4.8
 4.6
 9.7
 9.1
Reorganization items, net
 
 
 (12.8)
Income from continuing operations before income taxes45.9
 127.4
 198.0
 345.8
Income tax provision3.0
 7.4
 21.8
 17.5
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes42.9
 120.0
 176.2
 328.3
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(3.4) (3.6) (6.8) (4.9)
Net income39.5
 116.4
 169.4
 323.4
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 
 
 102.5
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests2.4
 2.7
 8.1
 0.6
Net income attributable to common stockholders$37.1
 $113.7
 $161.3
 $220.3
        
Income from continuing operations:       
Basic income per share$0.38
 $0.94
 $1.56
 $1.78
Diluted income per share$0.37
 $0.93
 $1.54
 $1.76
Net income attributable to common stockholders:       
Basic income per share$0.35
 $0.91
 $1.50
 $1.74
Diluted income per share$0.34
 $0.90
 $1.48
 $1.72
 Successor SuccessorPredecessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions, except per share data)
Revenues 
       
Sales$1,194.5
 $1,264.2
 $3,600.9
 $2,323.8
$1,081.4
Other revenues218.1
 213.0
 583.8
 411.7
244.8
Total revenues1,412.6
 1,477.2
 4,184.7
 2,735.5
1,326.2
Costs and expenses        
Operating costs and expenses (exclusive of items shown separately below)1,047.9
 1,039.1
 3,051.6
 1,967.0
950.2
Depreciation, depletion and amortization169.6
 194.5
 503.1
 342.8
119.9
Asset retirement obligation expenses12.4
 11.3
 37.9
 22.3
14.6
Selling and administrative expenses38.6
 33.7
 119.7
 68.4
36.3
Acquisition costs related to Shoal Creek2.5
 
 2.5
 

Other operating (income) loss:  
     
Net gain on disposals(20.8) (0.4) (49.8) (0.9)(22.8)
Asset impairment
 
 
 
30.5
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss49.3
 
 49.3
 

Income from equity affiliates(17.2) (10.5) (64.4) (26.2)(15.0)
Operating profit130.3
 209.5

534.8
 362.1
212.5
Interest expense38.2
 42.4
 112.8
 83.8
32.9
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 12.9
 2.0
 12.9

Interest income(10.1) (2.0) (24.3) (3.5)(2.7)
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost4.5
 6.6
 13.6
 13.2
14.4
Reorganization items, net
 
 (12.8) 
627.2
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes97.7
 149.6
 443.5
 255.7
(459.3)
Income tax provision (benefit)13.8
 (84.1) 31.3
 (79.4)(263.8)
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes83.9
 233.7
 412.2
 335.1
(195.5)
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(4.1) (3.7) (9.0) (6.4)(16.2)
Net income (loss)79.8
 230.0
 403.2
 328.7
(211.7)
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 23.5
 102.5
 138.6

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests8.3
 5.1
 8.9
 8.9
4.8
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$71.5
 $201.4
 $291.8
 $181.2
$(216.5)
         
Income (loss) from continuing operations:        
Basic income (loss) per share$0.64
 $1.51
 $2.43
 $1.38
$(10.93)
Diluted income (loss) per share$0.63
 $1.49
 $2.40
 $1.37
$(10.93)
         
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders:        
Basic income (loss) per share$0.60
 $1.48
 $2.36
 $1.33
$(11.81)
Diluted income (loss) per share$0.59
 $1.47
 $2.33
 $1.32
$(11.81)
         
Dividends declared per share$0.125
 $
 $0.355
 $
$

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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME


 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Net income$39.5
 $116.4
 $169.4
 $323.4
Postretirement plans and workers’ compensation obligations (net of $0.0 tax provisions in each period)(2.2) 
 (4.4) 
Foreign currency translation adjustment(0.5) (2.2) (0.4) (3.0)
Other comprehensive loss, net of income taxes(2.7) (2.2) (4.8) (3.0)
Comprehensive income36.8
 114.2
 164.6
 320.4
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 
 
 102.5
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests2.4
 2.7
 8.1
 0.6
Comprehensive income attributable to common stockholders$34.4
 $111.5
 $156.5
 $217.3

 Successor SuccessorPredecessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Net income (loss)$79.8
 $230.0
 $403.2
 $328.7
$(211.7)
Reclassification for realized losses on cash flow hedges (net of respective net tax provision of $0.0, $0.0, $0.0, $0.0 and $9.1) included in net income
 
 
 
18.6
Postretirement plans and workers’ compensation obligations (net of respective net tax provision of $0.0, $0.0, $0.0, $0.0 and $2.5)
 
 
 
4.4
Foreign currency translation adjustment(1.5) 1.3
 (4.5) 1.8
5.5
Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of income taxes(1.5) 1.3
 (4.5) 1.8
28.5
Comprehensive income (loss)78.3
 231.3
 398.7
 330.5
(183.2)
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 23.5
 102.5
 138.6

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests8.3
 5.1
 8.9
 8.9
4.8
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$70.0
 $202.7
 $287.3
 $183.0
$(188.0)


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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)  (Unaudited)  
September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
(Amounts in millions, except per share data)(Amounts in millions, except per share data)
ASSETS      
Current assets      
Cash and cash equivalents$1,371.0
 $1,012.1
$853.0
 $981.9
Restricted cash
 40.1
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $4.4 at September 30, 2018 and $4.6 at December 31, 2017444.9
 552.1
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $4.3 at June 30, 2019 and $4.4 at December 31, 2018395.7
 450.4
Inventories277.1
 291.3
322.1
 280.2
Other current assets213.9
 294.4
229.0
 243.1
Total current assets2,306.9
 2,190.0
1,799.8
 1,955.6
Property, plant, equipment and mine development, net4,851.9
 5,111.9
4,974.8
 5,207.0
Collateral arrangements
 323.1
Operating lease right-of-use assets93.1
 
Investments and other assets276.4
 470.6
205.0
 212.6
Deferred income taxes85.5
 85.6
48.5
 48.5
Total assets$7,520.7
 $8,181.2
$7,121.2
 $7,423.7
   
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY      
Current liabilities      
Current portion of long-term debt$42.0
 $42.1
$28.5
 $36.5
Accounts payable and accrued expenses1,082.2
 1,202.8
963.2
 1,022.0
Total current liabilities1,124.2
 1,244.9
991.7
 1,058.5
Long-term debt, less current portion1,334.2
 1,418.7
1,327.1
 1,330.5
Deferred income taxes4.8
 5.4
9.6
 9.7
Asset retirement obligations670.7
 657.0
698.9
 686.4
Accrued postretirement benefit costs723.4
 730.0
520.9
 547.7
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion58.0
 
Other noncurrent liabilities374.8
 469.4
289.2
 339.3
Total liabilities4,232.1
 4,525.4
3,895.4
 3,972.1
Stockholders’ equity      
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock — $0.01 per share par value; no shares authorized, issued or outstanding as of September 30, 2018 and 50.0 shares authorized, 30.0 shares issued and 13.5 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2017
 576.0
Preferred Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 100.0 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding as of September 30, 2018 and 50.0 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding as of December 31, 2017
 
Series Common Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 50.0 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding as of September 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017
 
Common Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 450.0 shares authorized, 137.7 shares issued and 114.5 shares outstanding as of September 30, 2018 and 111.8 shares issued and 105.2 shares outstanding as of December 31, 20171.4
 1.0
Preferred Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 100.0 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018
 
Series Common Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 50.0 shares authorized, no shares issued or outstanding as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018
 
Common Stock — $0.01 per share par value; 450.0 shares authorized, 139.1 shares issued and 106.2 shares outstanding as of June 30, 2019 and 137.7 shares issued and 110.4 shares outstanding as of December 31, 20181.4
 1.4
Additional paid-in capital3,295.1
 2,590.3
3,333.7
 3,304.7
Treasury stock, at cost — 23.2 and 5.8 common shares as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017(890.0) (175.9)
Treasury stock, at cost — 32.9 and 27.3 common shares as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018(1,193.4) (1,025.1)
Retained earnings837.2
 613.6
999.1
 1,074.5
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income(3.1) 1.4
Accumulated other comprehensive income35.3
 40.1
Peabody Energy Corporation stockholders’ equity3,240.6
 3,606.4
3,176.1
 3,395.6
Noncontrolling interests48.0
 49.4
49.7
 56.0
Total stockholders’ equity3,288.6
 3,655.8
3,225.8
 3,451.6
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$7,520.7
 $8,181.2
$7,121.2
 $7,423.7


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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
SuccessorPredecessorSix Months Ended June 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 20172019 2018
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Cash Flows From Operating Activities       
Net income (loss)$403.2
 $328.7
$(211.7)
Net income$169.4
 $323.4
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes9.0
 6.4
16.2
6.8
 4.9
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes412.2
 335.1
(195.5)
Adjustments to reconcile income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:    
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes176.2
 328.3
Adjustments to reconcile income from continuing operations, net of income taxes to net cash provided by operating activities:   
Depreciation, depletion and amortization503.1
 342.8
119.9
337.9
 333.5
Noncash coal inventory revaluation
 67.3

Noncash interest expense, net11.3
 21.8
0.5
11.1
 8.1
Deferred income taxes17.5
 1.6
(252.2)(0.3) 0.5
Noncash share-based compensation25.6
 14.1
1.9
21.6
 16.5
Asset impairment
 
30.5
Net gain on disposals(49.8) (0.9)(22.8)(1.7) (29.0)
Income from equity affiliates(64.4) (26.2)(15.0)(13.2) (47.2)
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss49.3
 

24.7
 
Foreign currency option contracts7.9
 (8.4)
2.4
 6.4
Reclassification from other comprehensive earnings for terminated hedge contracts
 
27.6
Noncash reorganization items, net(12.8) 
(485.4)
 (12.8)
Changes in current assets and liabilities:       
Accounts receivable177.3
 (118.9)159.3
20.8
 104.4
Inventories14.4
 (54.1)(47.2)(42.5) 0.9
Other current assets(36.2) (22.1)0.2
(32.0) (38.2)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses(39.0) (260.7)(65.5)(52.7) (40.1)
Collateral arrangements323.1
 81.2
(66.4)
 323.1
Asset retirement obligations9.5
 7.6
10.2
9.3
 9.2
Workers’ compensation obligations(0.4) (1.1)(3.1)0.9
 (0.6)
Postretirement benefit obligations(6.6) (1.2)0.8
(31.2) (3.1)
Pension obligations(68.8) (32.7)5.4
(17.9) (46.6)
Other, net10.6
 (17.1)(8.0)(14.8) 5.9
Net cash provided by (used in) continuing operations1,283.8
 328.1
(804.8)
Net cash provided by continuing operations398.6
 919.2
Net cash used in discontinued operations(23.0) (14.4)(8.2)(21.6) (3.8)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities1,260.8
 313.7
(813.0)
Net cash provided by operating activities377.0
 915.4
Cash Flows From Investing Activities       
Additions to property, plant, equipment and mine development(186.5) (68.6)(32.8)(96.8) (125.6)
Changes in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures(7.0) 1.8
(1.4)0.2
 (0.9)
Federal coal lease expenditures(0.5) 
(0.5)
 (0.5)
Proceeds from disposal of assets69.0
 5.2
24.3
Insurance proceeds attributable to North Goonyella equipment losses23.2
 
Proceeds from disposal of assets, net of receivables15.8
 52.6
Amount attributable to acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine(2.4) 
Contributions to joint ventures(358.2) (210.0)(95.4)(219.6) (243.8)
Distributions from joint ventures355.0
 208.0
90.5
205.5
 236.8
Advances to related parties(5.6) (4.1)(0.4)(4.5) (4.6)
Cash receipts from Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd81.1
 35.2
31.1
14.7
 69.8
Investment in equity securities(10.0) 

Other, net(2.8) (2.4)(0.3)(0.1) (1.8)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities(65.5) (34.9)15.1
Net cash used in investing activities(64.0) (18.0)


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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS - (Continued)
SuccessorPredecessorSix Months Ended June 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 20172019 2018
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities       
Proceeds from long-term debt
 
1,000.0
Repayments of long-term debt(73.0) (332.1)(2.1)(17.5) (63.5)
Payment of deferred financing costs(21.2) (6.1)(45.4)
Payment of debt issuance and other deferred financing costs(0.8) (1.4)
Common stock repurchases(699.6) (69.2)
(156.0) (374.5)
Repurchases of employee common stock relinquished for tax withholding(14.5) 
(0.1)
Repurchase of employee common stock relinquished for tax withholding(12.3) (14.5)
Dividends paid(44.6) 

(229.3) (29.3)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests(10.3) (16.7)(0.1)(14.4) (6.6)
Other, net0.1
 


 0.1
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(863.1) (424.1)952.3
Net cash used in financing activities(430.3) (489.7)
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash332.2
 (145.3)154.4
(117.3) 407.7
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period (1)
1,070.2
 1,095.6
941.2
1,017.4
 1,070.2
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period (2)
$1,402.4
 $950.3
$1,095.6
$900.1
 $1,477.9
       
       
(1) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period”:
(1) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period”:
(1) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period”:
Cash and cash equivalents$1,012.1
  $981.9
  
Restricted cash40.1
  
Restricted cash included in “Investments and other assets”18.0
  35.5
  
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period$1,070.2
  $1,017.4
  
      
(2) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period”:
(2) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period”:
(2) The following table provides a reconciliation of “Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period”:
Cash and cash equivalents$1,371.0
  $853.0
  
Restricted cash included in “Investments and other assets”31.4
  47.1
  
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period$1,402.4
  $900.1
  


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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTSTATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY


Peabody Energy Corporation Stockholders’ Equity    Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock Common Stock 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 Treasury Stock Retained Earnings Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) 
Noncontrolling
Interests
 
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
2019 2018 2019 2018
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions, except per share data)
December 31, 2017$576.0
 $1.0
 $2,590.3
 $(175.9) $613.6
 $1.4
 $49.4
 $3,655.8
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock       
Balance, beginning of period$
 $
 $
 $576.0
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock conversions
 
 
 (576.0)
Balance, end of period
 
 
 
Common Stock       
Balance, beginning of period1.4
 1.4
 1.4
 1.0
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock conversions
 
 
 0.4
Balance, end of period1.4
 1.4
 1.4
 1.4
Additional paid-in capital       
Balance, beginning of period3,322.3
 3,276.9
 3,304.7
 2,590.3
Dividend equivalent units on dividends declared1.4
 0.4
 7.4
 0.8
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock conversions
 
 
 678.1
Share-based compensation for equity-classified awards10.0
 8.4
 21.6
 16.5
Balance, end of period3,333.7
 3,285.7
 3,333.7
 3,285.7
Treasury stock       
Balance, beginning of period(1,125.3) (351.4) (1,025.1) (175.9)
Common stock repurchases(57.2) (199.0) (156.0) (374.5)
Repurchase of employee common stock relinquished for tax withholding(10.9) (14.5) (12.3) (14.5)
Balance, end of period(1,193.4) (564.9) (1,193.4) (564.9)
Retained earnings       
Balance, beginning of period978.3
 682.3
 1,074.5
 613.6
Impact of adoption of Accounting Standards Update 2014-09







(22.5)




(22.5)
 
 
 (22.5)
Net income







394.3



8.9

403.2
37.1
 113.7
 161.3
 322.8
Dividends declared



1.1



(45.7)




(44.6)
Dividends declared ($0.140, $0.115, $2.120, and $0.230 per share, respectively)(16.3) (14.7) (236.7) (30.1)
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock conversions
 
 
 (102.5)
Balance, end of period999.1
 781.3
 999.1
 781.3
Accumulated other comprehensive income       
Balance, beginning of period38.0
 0.6
 40.1
 1.4
Postretirement plans and workers' compensation obligations (net of $0.0 tax provisions in each period)(2.2) 
 (4.4) 
Foreign currency translation adjustment









(4.5)


(4.5)(0.5) (2.2) (0.4) (3.0)
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock conversions(576.0)
0.4

678.1



(102.5)





Share-based compensation for equity-classified awards



25.6









25.6
Common stock repurchases





(699.6)






(699.6)
Repurchase of employee common stock relinquished for tax withholding





(14.5)






(14.5)
Balance, end of period35.3
 (1.6) 35.3
 (1.6)
Noncontrolling interests       
Balance, beginning of period47.4
 40.7
 56.0
 49.4
Net income2.4
 2.7
 8.1
 0.6
Distributions to noncontrolling interests











(10.3)
(10.3)(0.1) 
 (14.4) (6.6)
September 30, 2018$

$1.4

$3,295.1

$(890.0)
$837.2

$(3.1)
$48.0

$3,288.6
Balance, end of period49.7
 43.4
 49.7
 43.4
Total stockholders’ equity$3,225.8
 $3,545.3
 $3,225.8
 $3,545.3


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(1)    Basis of Presentation
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Peabody Energy Corporation (PEC) and its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates (along with PEC, the Company or Peabody). Interests in subsidiaries controlled by the Company are consolidated with any outside stockholder interests reflected as noncontrolling interests, except when the Company has an undivided interest in an unincorporateda joint venture. In those cases, the Company includes its proportionate share in the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses of the jointly controlled entities within each applicable line item of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. All intercompany transactions, profits and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (U.S. GAAP) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018. In the opinion of management, these financial statements reflect all normal, recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation and certain prior year amounts have been reclassified for consistency with the current period presentation. As discussed below in Note 2. “Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented,” prior year amounts of net periodic benefit costs, excluding the service cost for benefits earned have been reclassified to conform with the new standard. Balance sheet information presented herein as of December 31, 20172018 has been derived from the Company’s audited consolidated balance sheet at that date. The Company’s results of operations for the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for future quarters or for the year ending December 31, 2018.2019.
Plan of Reorganization and Emergence from Chapter 11 Cases
On April 13, 2016, PEC and a majority of its wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, as well as one international subsidiary in Gibraltar (collectively with PEC, the Debtors), filed voluntary petitions (the Bankruptcy Petitions) under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the Bankruptcy Court). The Debtors’ Chapter 11 cases (the Chapter 11 Cases) were jointly administered under the caption In re Peabody Energy Corporation, et al., Case No. 16-42529.
For periods subsequent to filing the Bankruptcy Petitions, the Company applied the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 852, “Reorganizations,” in preparing its consolidated financial statements. ASC 852“Reorganizations”, requires that financial statements distinguish transactions and events that are directly associated with thea reorganization from the ongoing operations of the business. Accordingly, certain revenues, expenses, realized gains and losses and provisions for losses that were realized or incurred induring the bankruptcy proceedings from which the Company emerged on April 3, 2017 were recorded in “Reorganization items, net” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. “Reorganization items, net” for the six months ended June 30, 2018 consisted of settlement gains of $12.8 million related to certain unsecured claims.

(2)    Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented
Newly Adopted Accounting Standards
Leases. In February 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of right-of-use (ROU) assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet for leases with lease terms of more than 12 months. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases. The FASB has continued to clarify this guidance through the issuance of additional updates to ASU 2016-02.
On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASU 2016-02 using the modified transition approach and elected the package of practical expedients offered under ASU 2016-02, as updated, that allows it to forgo reassessment of lease classification for leases that have already commenced. The Company also elected the practical expedients to adopt ASU 2016-02 without restating comparative prior period financial information, to not recognize ROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases with shorter than 12 months terms and to include both lease and non-lease components within lease payments. The Company has implemented the systems functionality and internal control processes necessary to comply with the new reporting requirements of ASU 2016-02.



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The Company's reorganization items consisted of the following for the periods presented below:
 Successor  Predecessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018  January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Gain on settlement of claims (1)
$(12.8)  $(3,031.2)
Fresh start adjustments, net (1)

  3,363.1
Fresh start income tax adjustments, net (1)

  253.9
Professional fees (2)

  42.5
Accounts payable settlement gains
  (0.7)
Interest income
  (0.4)
Reorganization items, net$(12.8)  $627.2
     
Cash paid for "Reorganization items, net"$
  $45.8
(1)
Refer to Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 for further information related to the adjustments recorded in the period January 1 through April 1, 2017.
(2)
Professional fees are only those that were directly related to the reorganization including, but not limited to, fees associated with advisors to the Debtors, the unsecured creditors' committee and certain other secured and unsecured creditors.
On March 17, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order, Docket No. 2763 (the Confirmation Order), confirming the Debtors’ Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession (as further modified, the Plan). On April 3, 2017 (the Effective Date), the Debtors satisfied the conditions to effectiveness set forth in the Plan, the Plan became effective in accordance with its terms and the Debtors emerged from the Chapter 11 Cases.
On the Effective Date, in accordance with ASC 852, the Company applied fresh start reporting which requires the Company to allocate its reorganization value to the fair value of assets and liabilities in conformity with the guidance for the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. The Company was permitted to use fresh start reporting because (i) the holders of existing voting shares of the Predecessor (as defined below) company received less than 50% of the voting shares of the emerging entity upon reorganization and (ii) the reorganization value of the Company’s assets immediately prior to Plan confirmation was less than the total of all postpetition liabilities and allowed claims.
Upon adoption of fresh start reporting, the Company became a new entity for financial reporting purposes, reflecting the Successor (as defined below) capital structure. As a result, a new accounting basis in the identifiable assets and liabilities assumed was established with no retained earnings or accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) for financial reporting purposes. The Company selected an accounting convenience date of April 1, 2017 for purposes of applying fresh start reporting as the activity between the convenience date and the Effective Date did not result in a material difference in the results. References to “Successor” in the financial statements and accompanying footnotes are in reference to reporting dates on or after April 2, 2017; references to “Predecessor” in the financial statements and accompanying footnotes are in reference to reporting dates through April 1, 2017 which includes the impact of the Plan provisions and the application of fresh start reporting. As such, the Company’s financial statements for the Successor will not be comparable in many respects to its financial statements for periods prior to the adoption of fresh start reporting and prior to the accounting for the effects of the Plan. For further information on the Plan and fresh start reporting, see Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
In connection with fresh start reporting, the Company made certain prospective accounting policy elections that impact the Successor periods presented herein. The Company now classifies the amortization associated with its asset retirement obligation assets within “Depreciation, depletion and amortization” in its consolidated statements of operations, rather than within “Asset retirement obligation expenses,” as in Predecessor periods. With respect to its accrued postretirement benefit and pension obligations, the Company now records amounts attributable to prior service cost and actuarial valuation changes, as applicable, currently in earnings rather than recording such amounts within accumulated other comprehensive income and amortizing to expense over the applicable time periods.


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(2)    Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented
Newly Adopted Accounting Standards
Revenue Recognition. In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606),” that requires recognition of revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which a company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The FASB has also issued several updates to ASU 2014-09. On January 1, 2018, the Company adopted ASU 2014-09 using the modified retrospective method. The new standard provides a single principles-based, five-step model to be applied to all contracts with customers, which steps are to (1) identify the contract(s) with the customer, (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (3) determine the transaction price, (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract and (5) recognize revenue when each performance obligation is satisfied. The Company recognized the cumulative effect of initially applying ASU 2014-092016-02 as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings. Revenue previously recognized under contracts completed prior toon January 1, 2018 was not impacted by adoption2019 and comparative information presented herein has not been restated. TheASU 2016-02 had a material impact ofon the adoption of ASU 2014-09 was immaterial to the Company’s results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
The majority of the Company’s coal sales revenue will continue to be recognized as title and risk of loss transfer to the customer at mines and ports when coal is loaded to the transportation source, as further described in Note 3. “Revenue Recognition.” The impact of the adoption of ASU 2014-09 was limited to a long-term contract in which consideration related to the reimbursement of certain post-mining costs was recognized as costs were incurred, which differs in timing compared to the five-step model described above. The cumulative effects to the Company’sCompany's consolidated January 1, 2018 balance sheet were to reduce retained earnings for the amount of revenue that would have been deferred and to reduce long-term customer receivables, as noted in the table below:
 
Balance at
December 31, 2017
 Adjustments due to ASU 2014-09 
Balance at
January 1, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
ASSETS     
Investments and other assets$470.6
 $(22.5) $448.1
      
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY     
Retained earnings613.6
 (22.5) 591.1
ASU 2014-09 also requires entities to disclose sufficient qualitative and quantitative information to enable financial statement users to understand the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenues and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. Such disclosures are included in Note 3. “Revenue Recognition.”
Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15 to amend the classification of certain cash receipts and cash payments in the statement of cash flows to reduce diversity in practice. The Company retrospectively adopted all the provisions of this new standard in the first quarter of 2018. The classification requirements under the new guidance are either consistent with the Company’s current practices or are not applicable to its activities, and as such,but did not have a material impact on classificationits results of cash receipts and cash payments in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
Restricted Cash. In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, which reduces diversity in the presentation of restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents in the statement ofoperations or its cash flows. The Company retrospectively adopted allmost significant impact was the provisionsrecognition of this new accounting standardROU assets and lease liabilities for operating leases upon adoption, as set forth in the first quarter of 2018table below. The Company's accounting for finance leases remained unchanged.
 
Adoption of ASU 2016-02
January 1, 2019
 (Dollars in millions)
ASSETS 
Operating lease right-of-use assets$109.3
Total assets$109.3
  
LIABILITIES 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses$41.8
Total current liabilities41.8
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion67.5
Total liabilities$109.3

ASU 2016-02 also requires entities to disclose certain qualitative and as a result ofquantitative information regarding the new guidance, the Company combines restricted cash with unrestricted cashamount, timing, and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning and end of period balances on its statementsuncertainty of cash flows. The amendments also require a company to disclose information about the nature of the restrictions and amounts described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents.flows arising from leases. Such disclosures are included in Note 17. “Financial Instruments11. “Leases.”
Leases to explore for or use minerals, oil, natural gas and Other Guarantees.” Further, as cash, cash equivalents, restricted cashsimilar non-regenerative resources, including the intangible rights to explore for those natural resources and restricted cash equivalents are presented in more than one line item on the balance sheet, the Company reconciled these amounts to the total shown in the statement of cash flows in a tabular format within the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.


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Compensation - Retirement Benefits. In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-07, which requires employers that sponsor defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans to report the service cost component in the same line item as other compensation costs and to report the other components of net periodic benefit costs (which include interest costs, expected return on plan assets, amortization of prior service cost or credits and actuarial gains and losses) separately and outside a subtotal of operating income on a retrospective basis. The guidance limiting the capitalization of net periodic benefit cost in assets to the service cost component will be applied prospectively. The Company adopted all the provisions of this new accounting standard in the first quarter of 2018. While adoption of this guidance did impact financial statement presentation, it did not materially impact the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or cash flows. The retrospective impacts to the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations were as follows:
 Successor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 Before Application of Accounting Guidance Adjustment After Application of Accounting Guidance
 (Dollars in millions)
Results of Operations Amounts     
Operating costs and expenses$1,046.0
 $(6.9) $1,039.1
Selling and administrative expenses33.4
 0.3
 33.7
Operating profit202.9
 6.6
 209.5
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
 6.6
 6.6
Income from continuing operations before income taxes149.6
 
 149.6
 Successor
 April 2 through September 30, 2017
 Before Application of Accounting Guidance Adjustment After Application of Accounting Guidance
 (Dollars in millions)
Results of Operations Amounts     
Operating costs and expenses$1,980.8
 $(13.8) $1,967.0
Selling and administrative expenses67.8
 0.6
 68.4
Operating profit348.9
 13.2
 362.1
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
 13.2
 13.2
Income from continuing operations before income taxes255.7
 
 255.7
 Predecessor
 January 1 through April 1, 2017
 Before Application of Accounting Guidance Adjustment After Application of Accounting Guidance
 (Dollars in millions)
Results of Operations Amounts     
Operating costs and expenses$963.7
 $(13.5) $950.2
Selling and administrative expenses37.2
 (0.9) 36.3
Operating profit198.1
 14.4
 212.5
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
 14.4
 14.4
Loss from continuing operations before income taxes(459.3) 
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Compensation - Stock Compensation. In May 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09 to clarify when to account for a change to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award as a modification. Under the new guidance, modification accounting is required only if the fair value, the vesting conditions or the classification of the award (as equity or liability) changes as a result of the change in terms or conditions. The Company prospectively applied all the provisions of this new accounting standard on January 1, 2018, and there was no material impact to the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
Cloud Computing Arrangements. In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15 to provide new guidance on a customer’s accounting for implementation, set-up, and other upfront costs incurred in a cloud computing arrangement that is hosted by the vendor. Under the new guidance, customers will apply the same criteria for capitalizing implementation costs as they would for an arrangement that has a software license. The new guidance also prescribes the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow classification of the capitalized implementation costs and related amortization expense, and requires additional quantitative and qualitative disclosures. The Company retrospectively adopted all the provisions of this new accounting standard pertaining to multiple ongoing cloud implementation projects. The adoption of this guidance did not materially impact the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented
Leases. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” which will require a lessee to recognize on its balance sheet a liability to make lease payments and a right-of-use (“ROU”) asset representing its rightrights to use the underlying asset forland in which those natural resources are contained are excluded from the lease term for leases with lease terms of more than 12 months. Consistent with current U.S. GAAP, the recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee primarily will depend on its classification as a finance or operating lease. Additional qualitative disclosures along with specific quantitative disclosures will also be required. The new guidance will take effect for public companies for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018 (January 1, 2019 for the Company). In July 2018, the FASB issued the new transition method and practical expedient to simplify the application of the new leasing standard. Under the new transition method, comparative periods presented in the financial statements in the period of adoption will not need to be restated. Instead, a Company would initially apply the new lease requirements at the effective date, and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. The Company would continue to report comparative periods presented in the financial statements in the period of adoption under current U.S. GAAP and provide the applicable required disclosures for such periods. The new practical expedient allows lessors to avoid separating lease and associated nonlease components within a contract if certain criteria are met. If elected, lessors will be able to aggregate nonlease components that otherwise would be accounted for under the new revenue standard with the associated lease component if the following conditions are met: (1) the timing and pattern of transfer for the nonlease component and the associated lease component are the same and (2) the stand-alone lease component would be classified as an operating lease if accounted for separately. The Company intends to elect some of the available practical expedients on adoption.
The Company is in the process of implementing key systems functionality and internal control processes in order to comply with the new reporting requirementsscope of ASU 2016-02 and estimates that adoption of2016-02. As such, the standard will result in the recognition of additional ROU assets and corresponding lease liabilities on January 1, 2019 of approximately $200 million to $300 million (dependent upon various factors at the adoption date, including leases outstanding and prevailing interest and foreign exchange rates). The adoption of ASU 2016-02 isdid not expected to haveimpact the accounting for the coal reserve leases under which the Company mines a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or its cash flows, or to affect the Company’s compliance with the termssubstantial amount of its existing debt agreements.
Derivativescoal production. Such leases typically require royalties to be paid as the coal is mined and Hedging. In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-12sometimes require minimum annual royalties to amend the hedge accounting rules to simplify the application of hedge accounting guidance and better align the recognition and presentationbe paid regardless of the effectsamount of coal mined during the hedging instrument and the hedged item in the financial statements. The guidance expands the ability to hedge nonfinancial and financial risk components, reduces complexity in fair value hedges of interest rate risk, eliminates the requirement to separately measure and report hedge ineffectiveness, as well as eases certain hedge effectiveness assessment requirements. The new guidance will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 (January 1, 2019 for the Company) and interim periods therein, with early adoption permitted. The amendments to cash flow and net investment hedge relationships that exist on the date of adoption will be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The presentation and disclosure requirements will be applied prospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of this guidance will have on its results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and financial statement presentation.year.


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Leases - Land Easements.In January 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-01 to provide an optional transition practical expedient to not evaluate under Topic 842 existing or expired land easements that were not previously accounted for as leases under currentprior leasing guidance. An entity that elects this practicalOn January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the expedient shouldto evaluate new or modified land easements under Topic 842, beginning atand it did not have a material impact on the date that the entity adopts Topic 842. An entity that does not elect this practical expedient should evaluate all existing or expired land easements in connection with the adoption of the new leases requirements in Topic 842 to assess whether they meet the definition of a lease. The amendments in this update affect the amendments in ASU 2016-02. The effective date and transition requirements for the amendments are the same as the effective date and transition requirements in ASU 2016-02. The Company plans to adopt the expedient effective January 1, 2019 and is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of this guidance will have on itsCompany’s results of operations, financial condition, cash flows andor financial statement presentation.
Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented
Financial Instruments - Credit Losses. In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 related to the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments. The pronouncement replaces the incurred loss methodology to record credit losses with a methodology that reflects the expected credit losses for financial assets not accounted for at fair value with gains and losses recognized through net income. The FASB has continued to clarify this guidance through the issuance of additional updates to ASU 2016-13. This standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 (January 1, 2020 for the Company) and interim periods therein, with early adoption permitted for fiscal years, and interim periods therein, beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is in the process of evaluating the updates and expects to adopt ASU 2016-13 along with the related updates as of January 1, 2020 with no material impact to the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, cash flows or financial statement presentation.
Fair Value Measurement.In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, which amended the fair value measurement guidance by removing and modifying certain disclosure requirements, while also adding new disclosure requirements. The amendments on changes in unrealized gains and losses, the range and weighted average of significant unobservable inputs used to develop Level 3 fair value measurements and the narrative description of measurement uncertainty should be applied prospectively for only the most recent interim or annual period presented in the initial fiscal year of adoption. All other amendments should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented upon their effective date. The amendments are effective for all companies for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for all amendments. Further, a company may elect to early adopt the removal or modification of disclosures immediately and delay adoption of the new disclosure requirements until the effective date. The Company plans to adopt all disclosure requirements effective January 1, 2020.


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Compensation - Retirement Benefits.In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-14 to add, remove and clarify disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans. ASU 2018-14 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2020 for public companies and early adoption is permitted. The Company plans to adopt the disclosure requirements effective January 1, 2021.
(3)    Acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine
On December 3, 2018, the Company completed the acquisition of the Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine, preparation plant and supporting assets located in Alabama (Shoal Creek Mine) for a purchase price of $387.4 million. In January 2019, the Company agreed to pay an additional $2.4 million to settle a working capital adjustment. The purchase price was funded with available cash on hand and reflected customary purchase price adjustments. The acquisition expands the Company’s seaborne metallurgical mining platform.
The acquisition excluded all liabilities other than reclamation and the Company is not responsible for other liabilities arising out of or relating to the operation of the Shoal Creek Mine prior to the acquisition date, including with respect to employee benefit plans and post-employment benefits. In connection with completing the acquisition, a new collective bargaining agreement was reached with the union-represented workforce that eliminates participation in the multi-employer pension plan and replaces it with a 401(k) retirement plan.
The preliminary purchase accounting allocations were recorded in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of, and for the period subsequent to the acquisition date. The following table summarizes the preliminary estimated fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed that were recognized at the acquisition and control date as well as provisional fair value adjustments made through June 30, 2019:
 Preliminary Allocations Adjustments Updated Allocations
 (Dollars in millions)
Inventories$39.7
 $0.4
 $40.1
Property, plant, equipment and mine development364.7
 3.4
 368.1
Current liabilities(4.1) 
 (4.1)
Asset retirement obligations(10.5) (3.8) (14.3)
Total purchase price$389.8
 $
 $389.8

Determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed required judgment and the utilization of independent valuation experts, and included the use of significant estimates and assumptions, including assumptions with respect to future cash inflows and outflows, discount rates and asset lives, among other items. Due to the unobservable inputs to the valuation, the fair value would be considered Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.
The adjustments to the provisional fair values result from additional information obtained about facts in existence at the acquisition and control date. Adjustments to provisional fair values are assumed to have been made as of the acquisition and control date. As a result, "Depreciation, depletion and amortization" would have been higher by $0.2 million and $1.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019, respectively, than was previously reported. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations reflect these adjustments in the three months ended June 30, 2019.
The Company continues to evaluate the mine plan and review coal reserve studies on the Shoal Creek Mine, the outcome of which will determine the fair value allocated to the asset retirement obligation and coal reserve assets. The valuation of the net assets acquired is expected to be finalized once those assessments and third-party valuation appraisals are completed. In connection with the acquisition, the Company recorded a contract based intangible liability of $3.5 million to reflect the fair value of a coal supply agreement. The liability was amortized to income in January 2019 and the related contract was renegotiated on market terms.
The results of Shoal Creek Mine for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 are included in the unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations and are reported in the Seaborne Metallurgical Mining segment.


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

The following unaudited pro forma financial information presents the estimated combined results of operations of the Company and Shoal Creek Mine, on a pro forma basis, as though the operations of the Shoal Creek Mine had been combined with the Company’s operations as of January 1, 2018. The unaudited pro forma financial information does not necessarily reflect the results of operations that would have occurred had the operations of the Company and Shoal Creek Mine been combined during those periods or that may be attained in the future.
 Three Months Ended June 30, 2018 Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
 (Dollars in millions, except per share data)
Revenues$1,390.0
 $2,957.7
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes150.7
 402.1
Basic earnings per share from continuing operations$1.19
 $2.36
Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations$1.17
 $2.33

The pro forma income from continuing operations, net of income taxes includes adjustments to operating costs to reflect the additional expense for the estimated impact of the fair value adjustment for coal inventory, a reduction in postretirement benefit costs resulting from the new collective bargaining agreement described above, and the estimated impact on depreciation, depletion and amortization for the fair value adjustment for property, plant and equipment (including coal reserve assets). On a pro forma basis, the acquisition would have had no impact on taxable income due to the Company’s federal net operating losses.
(4)    Revenue Recognition
The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with ASC Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” (ASC 606), which the Company adopted on January 1, 2018, using the modified retrospective approach. SeeRefer to Note 2. “Newly Adopted1. “Summary of Significant Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented” for further discussion of the adoption, including the impact onPolicies” in the Company’s opening balance sheet.
Sales
The majority ofAnnual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, for the Company’s revenue is derived from the sale of coal under long-term coal supply agreements (those with initial terms of one year or longerpolicies regarding “Revenues” and which often include price reopener and/or extension provisions) and contracts with terms of less than one year, including sales made on a spot basis. The Company’s revenue from coal sales is realized and earned when risk of loss passes to the customer. Under the typical terms of the Company’s coal supply agreements, title and risk of loss transfer to the customer at the mine or port, where coal is loaded to the transportation source(s) that serves each of the Company’s mines. The Company incurs certain “add-on” taxes and fees on coal sales. Reported coal sales include taxes and fees charged by various federal and state governmental bodies and the freight charged on destination customer contracts.
The Company’s U.S. operating platform primarily sells thermal coal to electric utilities in the U.S. under long-term contracts, with a portion sold into the seaborne markets as conditions warrant. A significant portion of the coal production from the U.S. mining segments is sold under long-term supply agreements, and customers of those segments continue to pursue long-term sales agreements in recognition of the importance of reliability, service and predictable coal prices to their operations. The terms of coal supply agreements result from competitive bidding and extensive negotiations with customers. Consequently, the terms of those agreements may vary in many respects, including price adjustment features, price reopener terms, coal quality requirements, quantity parameters, permitted sources of supply, treatment of environmental constraints, extension options, force majeure and termination and assignment provisions.


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The Company's Australian operating platform is primarily export focused with customers spread across several countries, while a portion of the metallurgical and thermal coal is sold within Australia. Generally, revenues from individual countries vary year by year based on electricity and steel demand, the strength of the global economy, governmental policies and several other factors, including those specific to each country. A majority of these sales are executed through annual and multi-year international coal supply agreements that contain provisions requiring both parties to renegotiate pricing periodically. Industry commercial practice, and the Company’s typical practice, is to negotiate pricing for seaborne metallurgical coal contracts on a quarterly, spot or index basis and seaborne thermal coal contracts on an annual, spot or index basis. The portion of volume priced on a shorter-term basis and index-linked basis has increased in recent years. In the case of periodically negotiated pricing, the Company may deliver coal under provisional pricing until a final agreed-upon price is determined. The resulting make-whole settlements are recognized when reasonably estimable.
Contract pricing is set forth on a per ton basis, and revenue is generally recorded as the product of price and volume delivered. Many of the Company’s coal supply agreements contain provisions that permit the parties to adjust the contract price upward or downward at specified times. These contract prices may be adjusted based on inflation or deflation and/or changes in the factors affecting the cost of producing coal, such as taxes, fees, royalties and changes in the laws regulating the mining, production, sale or use of coal. In a limited number of contracts, failure of the parties to agree on a price under those provisions may allow either party to terminate the contract. The Company sometimes experiences a reduction in coal prices in new long-term coal supply agreements replacing some of its expiring contracts. Coal supply agreements also typically contain force majeure provisions allowing temporary suspension of performance by the Company or the customer during the duration of specified events beyond the control of the affected party. Most of the coal supply agreements contain provisions requiring the Company to deliver coal meeting quality thresholds for certain characteristics such as Btu, sulfur content, ash content, grindability and ash fusion temperature. Failure to meet these specifications could result in economic penalties, including price adjustments, the rejection of deliveries or termination of the contracts. Moreover, some of these agreements allow the Company’s customers to terminate their contracts in the event of changes in regulations affecting the industry that restrict the use or type of coal permissible at the customer’s plant or increase the price of coal beyond specified limits.
Other Revenues
"Other revenues" may include net revenues from coal trading activities as discussed in Note 7. “Coal Trading,” as well as coal sales revenues that were derived from the Company’s mining operations and sold through the Company’s coal trading business. Also included are revenues from customer contract-related payments, royalties related to coal lease agreements, sales agency commissions, farm income and property and facility rentals. Royalty income generally results from the lease or sublease of mineral rights to third parties, with payments based upon a percentage of the selling price or an amount per ton of coal produced.
Accounts Receivable
The timing of revenue recognition, billings and cash collections results in accounts receivable from customers. Customers are invoiced as coal is shipped or at periodic intervals in accordance with contractual terms. Invoices typically include customary adjustments for the resolution of price variability related to prior shipments, such as coal quality thresholds. Payments are generally received within thirty days of invoicing. “Accounts receivable, net” at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 consisted of the following:
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Trade receivables, net$345.9
 $504.2
Miscellaneous receivables, net99.0
 47.9
Accounts receivable, net$444.9
 $552.1
Trade receivables, net presented above have been shown net of reserves of $0.1 million and $0.3 million as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. Miscellaneous receivables, net presented above have been shown net of reserves of $4.3 million as of both September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017. Included in “Operating costs and expenses” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations was a credit of $0.4 million, $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, and the nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively. A charge for doubtful trade receivables of $4.4 million was included for the period April 2 through September 30, 2017. No charges for doubtful accounts were recognized during the period January 1 through April 1, 2017.


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The Company also records long-term customer receivables related to the reimbursement of certain post-mining costs which are included within “Investments and other assets” in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The balance of such receivables was $35.8 million and $139.3 million as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. The balance was adjusted in connection with the adoption of ASC 606, as described in Note 2. “Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented.net. Also in connection with the adoption of ASC 606, the Company prospectively records a portion of the consideration received as “Interest income” rather than “Other revenues” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, due to the embedded financing element within the related contract. Interest income related to these arrangements amounted to $2.1 million and $6.3 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively.
Disaggregation of Revenues
Revenue by product type and market is set forth in the following tables. With respect to its Australian Miningseaborne mining segments, the Company classifies as “Export” certain revenue from domestically-delivered coal under contracts in which the price is derived on a basis similar to export contracts.
Successor
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 ConsolidatedSeaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal                            
Domestic$373.7
 $208.4
 $149.5
 $
 $37.4
 $
 $
 $769.0
$37.7
 $
 $282.5
 $167.5
 $130.7
 $
 $618.4
Export
 
 3.1
 
 267.7
 
 
 270.8
182.2
 
 
 
 4.3
 
 186.5
Total thermal373.7
 208.4
 152.6
 
 305.1
 
 
 1,039.8
219.9
 
 282.5
 167.5
 135.0
 
 804.9
Metallurgical coal                            
Export
 
 
 369.4
 
 
 
 369.4

 290.3
 
 
 
 
 290.3
Total metallurgical
 
 
 369.4
 
 
 
 369.4

 290.3
 
 
 
 
 290.3
Other
 0.1
 3.5
 0.9
 
 22.6
 (23.7) 3.4
0.3
 0.6
 0.1
 
 7.1
 45.7
 53.8
Total revenues$373.7
 $208.5
 $156.1
 $370.3
 $305.1
 $22.6
 $(23.7) $1,412.6
               
Successor
Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal            
  
Domestic$420.9
 $207.1
 $147.1
 $
 $31.6
 $
 $
 $806.7
Export
 0.4
 11.2
 
 234.1
 
 
 245.7
Total thermal420.9
 207.5
 158.3
 
 265.7
 
 
 1,052.4
Metallurgical coal               
Export
 
 
 414.1
 
 
 
 414.1
Total metallurgical
 
 
 414.1
 
 
 
 414.1
Other
 0.2
 (2.6) 1.8
 0.1
 19.4
 (8.2) 10.7
Total revenues$420.9
 $207.7
 $155.7
 $415.9
 $265.8
 $19.4
 $(8.2) $1,477.2
Revenues$220.2
 $290.9
 $282.6
 $167.5
 $142.1
 $45.7
 $1,149.0




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Successor
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 ConsolidatedSeaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal                            
Domestic$1,084.4
 $606.2
 $410.9
 $
 $112.0
 $
 $
 $2,213.5
$38.5
 $
 $321.5
 $196.9
 $131.1
 $
 $688.0
Export
 1.3
 15.4
 
 661.3
 
 
 678.0
228.7
 
 
 0.6
 4.3
 
 233.6
Total thermal1,084.4
 607.5
 426.3
 
 773.3
 
 
 2,891.5
267.2
 
 321.5
 197.5
 135.4
 
 921.6
Metallurgical coal                            
Export
 
 
 1,251.9
 
 
 
 1,251.9

 417.2
 
 
 
 
 417.2
Total metallurgical
 
 
 1,251.9
 
 
 
 1,251.9

 417.2
 
 
 
 
 417.2
Other0.1
 0.2
 13.1
 2.1
 0.6
 52.7
 (27.5) 41.3
0.2
 0.3
 
 
 4.2
 (34.1) (29.4)
Total revenues$1,084.5
 $607.7
 $439.4
 $1,254.0
 $773.9
 $52.7
 $(27.5) $4,184.7
               
Successor
April 2 through September 30, 2017
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal               
Domestic$782.0
 $401.9
 $270.9
 $
 $59.7
 $
 $
 $1,514.5
Export
 0.4
 11.2
 
 445.0
 
 
 456.6
Total thermal782.0
 402.3
 282.1
 
 504.7
 
 
 1,971.1
Metallurgical coal               
Export
 
 
 701.9
 
 
 
 701.9
Total metallurgical
 
 
 701.9
 
 
 
 701.9
Other4.3
 0.3
 (1.0) 1.8
 0.3
 24.6
 32.2
 62.5
Total revenues$786.3
 $402.6
 $281.1
 $703.7
 $505.0
 $24.6
 $32.2
 $2,735.5
               
Predecessor
January 1 through April 1, 2017
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal               
Domestic$394.3
 $193.2
 $133.5
 $
 $27.3
 $
 $
 $748.3
Export
 
 
 
 197.2
 
 
 197.2
Total thermal394.3
 193.2
 133.5
 
 224.5
 
 
 945.5
Metallurgical coal               
Export
 
 
 324.6
 
 
 
 324.6
Total metallurgical
 
 
 324.6
 
 
 
 324.6
Other
 
 16.2
 4.3
 0.3
 15.0
 20.3
 56.1
Total revenues$394.3
 $193.2
 $149.7
 $328.9
 $224.8
 $15.0
 $20.3
 $1,326.2
Revenues$267.4
 $417.5
 $321.5
 $197.5
 $139.6
 $(34.1) $1,309.4

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 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal             
Domestic$76.1
 $
 $569.8
 $346.5
 $273.4
 $
 $1,265.8
Export394.1
 
 
 
 11.3
 
 405.4
Total thermal470.2
 
 569.8
 346.5
 284.7
 
 1,671.2
Metallurgical coal             
Export
 614.0
 
 
 
 
 614.0
Total metallurgical
 614.0
 
 
 
 
 614.0
Other1.0
 1.4
 0.1
 0.1
 13.1
 98.7
 114.4
Revenues$471.2
 $615.4
 $569.9
 $346.6
 $297.8
 $98.7
 $2,399.6

 Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
Thermal coal             
Domestic$74.6
 $
 $710.7
 $397.8
 $261.4
 $
 $1,444.5
Export393.6
 
 
 1.3
 12.3
 
 407.2
Total thermal468.2
 
 710.7
 399.1
 273.7
 
 1,851.7
Metallurgical coal             
Export
 882.5
 
 
 
 
 882.5
Total metallurgical
 882.5
 
 
 
 
 882.5
Other0.6
 1.2
 0.1
 0.1
 9.6
 26.3
 37.9
Revenues$468.8
 $883.7
 $710.8
 $399.2
 $283.3
 $26.3
 $2,772.1


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Revenue by contract duration was as follows:
 Successor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$330.2
 $205.3
 $146.6
 $199.5
 $235.3
 $
 $
 $1,116.9
Less than one year43.5
 3.1
 6.0
 169.9
 69.8
 
 
 292.3
Other (2)

 0.1
 3.5
 0.9
 
 22.6
 (23.7) 3.4
Total revenues$373.7
 $208.5
 $156.1
 $370.3
 $305.1
 $22.6
 $(23.7) $1,412.6
                
 Successor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$373.3
 $199.0
 $144.2
 $270.9
 $164.7
 $
 $
 $1,152.1
Less than one year47.6
 8.5
 14.1
 143.2
 101.0
 
 
 314.4
Other (2)

 0.2
 (2.6) 1.8
 0.1
 19.4
 (8.2) 10.7
Total revenues$420.9
 $207.7
 $155.7
 $415.9
 $265.8
 $19.4
 $(8.2) $1,477.2


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 Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$150.6
 $242.7
 $269.7
 $158.2
 $132.6
 $
 $953.8
Less than one year69.3
 47.6
 12.8
 9.3
 2.4
 
 141.4
Other (2)
0.3
 0.6
 0.1
 
 7.1
 45.7
 53.8
Revenues$220.2
 $290.9
 $282.6
 $167.5
 $142.1
 $45.7
 $1,149.0
Successor
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 ConsolidatedSeaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$984.4
 $587.0
 $400.4
 $852.1
 $585.8
 $
 $
 $3,409.7
$173.2
 $255.1
 $310.8
 $194.1
 $126.5
 $
 $1,059.7
Less than one year100.0
 20.5
 25.9
 399.8
 187.5
 
 
 733.7
94.0
 162.1
 10.7
 3.4
 8.9
 
 279.1
Other (2)
0.1
 0.2
 13.1
 2.1
 0.6
 52.7
 (27.5) 41.3
0.2
 0.3
 
 
 4.2
 (34.1) (29.4)
Total revenues$1,084.5
 $607.7
 $439.4
 $1,254.0
 $773.9
 $52.7
 $(27.5) $4,184.7
               
Successor
April 2 through September 30, 2017
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$700.0
 $386.3
 $266.9
 $524.3
 $300.3
 $
 $
 $2,177.8
Less than one year82.0
 16.0
 15.2
 177.6
 204.4
 
 
 495.2
Other (2)
4.3
 0.3
 (1.0) 1.8
 0.3
 24.6
 32.2
 62.5
Total revenues$786.3
 $402.6
 $281.1
 $703.7
 $505.0
 $24.6
 $32.2
 $2,735.5
               
Predecessor
January 1 through April 1, 2017
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining Trading and Brokerage 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
(Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$357.7
 $193.2
 $129.3
 $240.6
 $134.1
 $
 $
 $1,054.9
Less than one year36.6
 
 4.2
 84.0
 90.4
 
 
 215.2
Other (2)

 
 16.2
 4.3
 0.3
 15.0
 20.3
 56.1
Total revenues$394.3
 $193.2
 $149.7
 $328.9
 $224.8
 $15.0
 $20.3
 $1,326.2
Revenues$267.4
 $417.5
 $321.5
 $197.5
 $139.6
 $(34.1) $1,309.4
 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$321.7
 $475.5
 $549.8
 $326.0
 $278.6
 $
 $1,951.6
Less than one year148.5
 138.5
 20.0
 20.5
 6.1
 
 333.6
Other (2)
1.0
 1.4
 0.1
 0.1
 13.1
 98.7
 114.4
Revenues$471.2
 $615.4
 $569.9
 $346.6
 $297.8
 $98.7
 $2,399.6
 Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern U.S. Mining Western U.S. Mining 
Corporate and Other (1)
 Consolidated
 (Dollars in millions)
One year or longer$350.5
 $652.6
 $654.2
 $381.7
 $253.8
 $
 $2,292.8
Less than one year117.7
 229.9
 56.5
 17.4
 19.9
 
 441.4
Other (2)
0.6
 1.2
 0.1
 0.1
 9.6
 26.3
 37.9
Revenues$468.8
 $883.7
 $710.8
 $399.2
 $283.3
 $26.3
 $2,772.1
(1) 
Corporate and Other revenue includes unrealized gains and losses related to mark-to-market activityadjustments from economic hedge activities intended to hedge future coal sales. Such net unrealized losses were $26.8 millionRefer to Note 8. “Derivatives and $10.8 million duringFair Value Measurements” for additional information regarding the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $36.3 million and $1.4 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017, respectively. During the period January 1 through April 1, 2017, such net unrealized gains were $16.6 million. When such gains and losses are realized in connection with recognition of the underlying transaction, they are reclassified to realized gains and losses and are then reflected in Trading and Brokerage revenue (realized losses of $11.6 million and $12.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $41.1 million, $20.0 million and $11.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and the periods April 2 through September 30, 2017 and January 1 through April 1, 2017, respectively). At September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the financial contracts’ fair values resulted in net liabilities, excluding margin, of $75.2 million and $38.9 million, respectively.economic hedge activities.
(2) 
Other includes revenues from arrangements such as customer contract-related payments, royalties related to coal lease agreements, sales agency commissions, farm income and property and facility rentals, for which contract duration is not meaningful.
Committed Revenue from Contracts with Customers
The Company expects to recognize revenue subsequent to SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 of approximately $5.8$5.4 billion related to contracts with customers in which volumes and prices per ton were fixed or reasonably estimable at SeptemberJune 30, 2018.2019. Approximately 47%45% of such amount is expected to be recognized over the next twelve months and the remainder thereafter. Actual revenue related to such contracts may differ materially for various reasons, including price adjustment features for coal quality and cost escalations, volume optionality provisions and potential force majeure events. This estimate of future revenue does not include any revenue related to contracts with variable prices per ton that cannot be reasonably estimated, such as the majority of Australianseaborne metallurgical and seaborne thermal coal contracts where pricing is negotiated or settled quarterly or annually.




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(4)Accounts Receivable
“Accounts receivable, net” at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 consisted of the following:
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Trade receivables, net$345.6
 $345.5
Miscellaneous receivables, net50.1
 104.9
Accounts receivable, net$395.7
 $450.4

Trade receivables, net presented above have been shown net of reserves of $0.1 million as of December 31, 2018. There were no reserves as of June 30, 2019. Miscellaneous receivables, net presented above have been shown net of reserves of $4.3 million as of both June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018. Included in “Operating costs and expenses” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations was a credit of $0.1 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and a charge for doubtful trade receivables of $0.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018. No charges for doubtful accounts were recognized during the three months ended June 30, 2018.
The Company also records long-term customer receivables related to the reimbursement of certain post-mining costs which are included within “Investments and other assets” in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The balance of such receivables was $11.3 million and $11.1 million as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. In connection with the adoption of ASC 606, the Company records a portion of the consideration received as “Interest income” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, due to the embedded financing element within the related contract. Interest income related to these arrangements amounted to $2.6 million and $2.1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $5.3 million and $4.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
(5)    Discontinued Operations
Discontinued operations include certain former AustralianSeaborne Thermal Mining and Midwestern U.S. Mining segment assets that have ceased production and other previously divested legacy operations, including Patriot Coal Corporation and certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries (Patriot).
Summarized Results of Discontinued Operations
Results from discontinued operations were as follows during the periods presented below:
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes$(3.4) $(3.6) $(6.8) $(4.9)
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor
  Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  (Dollars in millions)
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes $(4.1) $(3.7) $(9.0) $(6.4)$(16.2)

Assets and Liabilities of Discontinued Operations
Assets and liabilities classified as discontinued operations included in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets were as follows:
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Assets:   
Other current assets$0.3
 $
Total assets classified as discontinued operations$0.3
 $
    
Liabilities:   
Accounts payable and accrued expenses$54.2
 $54.0
Other noncurrent liabilities126.5
 141.1
Total liabilities classified as discontinued operations$180.7
 $195.1



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 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Assets:   
Other current assets$0.5
 $0.3
Total assets classified as discontinued operations$0.5
 $0.3
    
Liabilities:   
Accounts payable and accrued expenses$70.8
 $70.6
Other noncurrent liabilities156.0
 170.0
Total liabilities classified as discontinued operations$226.8
 $240.6

Patriot-Related Matters
A significant portion of the liabilities in the table above relate to Patriot. In 2012, Patriot filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code.Code). In 2013, the Company entered into a definitive settlement agreement (2013 Agreement) with Patriot and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), on behalf of itself, its represented Patriot employees and its represented Patriot retirees, to resolve all then disputedthen-disputed issues related to Patriot’s bankruptcy. In May 2015, Patriot again filed voluntary petitions for relief under the Bankruptcy Code in the Eastern District of Virginia and subsequently initiated a process to sell some or all of its assets to qualified bidders. On October 9, 2015, Patriot’s bankruptcy court entered an order confirming Patriot’s plan of reorganization, which provided, among other things, for the sale of substantially all of Patriot’s assets to two different buyers.
Black Lung Occupational Disease Liabilities. Patriot had federal and state black lung occupational disease liabilities related to workers employed in periods prior to Patriot’s spin-off from the Company in 2007. Upon spin-off, Patriot indemnified the Company against any claim relating to these liabilities, which amounted to approximately $150 million at that time. The indemnification included any claim made by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) against the Company with respect to these obligations as a potentially liable operator under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. The 2013 Agreement included Patriot’s affirmance of indemnities provided in the spin-off agreements, including the indemnity relating to such black lung liabilities; however, Patriot rejected this indemnity in its May 2015 bankruptcy.


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By statute, the Company had secondary liability for the black lung liabilities related to Patriot’s workers employed by former subsidiaries of the Company. The Company’s accounting for the black lung liabilities related to Patriot is based on an interpretation of applicable statutes. Management believes that inconsistencies exist among the applicable statutes, regulations promulgated under those statutes and the DOL’s interpretative guidance. The Company has sought clarification from the DOL regarding these inconsistencies and the accounting for these liabilities could be reduced in the future depending on the DOL’s responses. Whether the Company will ultimately be required to fund certain of those obligations in the future as a result of Patriot’s May 2015 bankruptcy remains uncertain. The amount of the liability, was $135.9 million at September 30, 2018, which was determined on an actuarial basis based on the best information available to the Company.Company, was $103.3 million and $102.7 million at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. While the Company has recorded a liability, it intends to review each claim on a case-by-case basis and contest liability estimates as appropriate. The amount of the Company’s recorded liability reflects only Patriot workers employed by former subsidiaries of the Company that are presently retired, disabled or otherwise not actively employed. The Company cannot reliably estimate the potential liabilities for Patriot’s workers employed by former subsidiaries of the Company that are presently active in the workforce because of the potential for such workers to continue to work for another coal operator that is a going concern.
Combined Benefit Fund (Combined Fund).The Combined Fund was created by the Coal Act in 1992 as a multi-employer plan to provide health care benefits to a closed group of retirees who last worked prior to 1976, as well as orphaned beneficiaries of bankrupt companies who were receiving benefits as orphans prior to the passage of the Coal Act. No new retirees will be added to this group, which includes retirees formerly employed by certain Patriot subsidiaries and their predecessors. Former employers are required to contribute to the Combined Fund according to a formula.
Under the terms of the Patriot spin-off, Patriot was primarily liable to the Combined Fund for the approximately $40 million of its subsidiaries’ obligations at that time. Once Patriot ceased meeting its obligations, the Company was held responsible for these costs and, as a result, recorded “Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes” charges of $0.1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, and $0.3 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018. The Company made payments into the fund of $0.5 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, and $1.0 million and $1.1 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and estimates that the annual cash cost to fund these potential Combined Fund liabilities will range between $1 million and $2 million in the near-term, with those premiums expected to decline over time because the fund is closed to new participants. The liability related to the fund was $15.7 million and $16.4 million at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.
UMWA 1974 Pension Plan (UMWA Plan) Litigation. On July 16, 2015, a lawsuit was filed by the UMWA Plan, the UMWA 1974 Pension Trust (Trust) and the Trustees of the UMWA Plan and Trust (Trustees) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, against PEC, Peabody Holding Company, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, and Arch Coal, Inc. (Arch). The plaintiffs sought, pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, a declaratory judgment that the defendants were obligated to arbitrate any opposition to the Trustees’ determination that the defendants havehad statutory withdrawal liability as a result of the 2015 Patriot bankruptcy. After a legal and arbitration process and with the approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (Bankruptcy Court), on January 25, 2017, the UMWA Plan and the DebtorsCompany agreed to a settlement of the claim wherebywhich entitled the UMWA Plan will be entitled to $75 million to be paid by the Company in increments through 2021. The balance of the liability, on a discounted basis, was $35.3$23.9 million and $36.7 million at SeptemberJune 30, 2018.2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.


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(6)     Inventories
Inventories as of SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and December 31, 20172018 consisted of the following:
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Materials and supplies$123.8
 $118.1
Raw coal74.9
 53.6
Saleable coal123.4
 108.5
Total$322.1
 $280.2
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Materials and supplies$104.3
 $101.5
Raw coal57.5
 78.1
Saleable coal115.3
 111.7
Total$277.1
 $291.3
Materials and supplies inventories presented above have been shown net of reserves of $0.2$0.8 million and $0.6$0.2 million as of SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and December 31, 2017,2018, respectively.
(6)(7) Equity Method Investments
The Company had total equity method investments of $44.0 million and $45.9 million reflected in “Investments and other assets” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, related to Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd (Middlemount). Included in “Income from equity affiliates” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations was $9.7 million and $25.5 million related to Middlemount during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively and $13.5 million and $47.7 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Middlemount’s standalone results include (on a 50% attributable basis):
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Depreciation, depletion and amortization and asset retirement obligation expenses$3.5
 $4.2
 $7.1
 $8.1
Net interest expense1.8
 3.6
 4.0
 7.2
Income tax provision4.2
 6.4
 5.9
 11.5

The Company received cash payments from Middlemount of $14.7 millionand $69.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
(8) Derivatives and Fair Value Measurements
Derivatives
Corporate Risk Management — Corporate Hedging Activities
TheFrom time to time, the Company is exposedmay utilize various types of derivative instruments to severalmanage its exposure to risks in the normal course of business, including (1) foreign currency exchange rate risk for non-U.S. dollar expenditures and balances, (2) price risk on coal produced by and diesel fuel utilized in the Company’s mining operations and (3) interest rate risk that has been partially mitigated by fixed rates on long-term debt. The Company manages a portionvariability of its price risk related to the sale of coal (excluding coal trading activities) using long-term coal supply agreements. Derivative financial instruments have historically been used to manage the Company’s exposure to foreign currency exchange rate risk, primarily oncash flows associated with forecasted Australian dollar expenditures made in its Australian mining platform. Thisplatform, (2) price risk was historically managed using forward contractsof fluctuating coal prices related to forecasted sales or purchases of coal, or changes in the fair value of a fixed price physical sales contract, (3) price risk and options designated as cash flow hedges, with the objective of reducing the variability of cash flows associated with forecasted foreign currency expenditures. The Company previously used derivative instrumentsrelated to manage its exposure to the variability of diesel fuel prices used in production in the U.S. and Australia with swaps or options, which it also designated as cash flow hedges, with the objective of reducing the variability of cash flows associated with forecasted diesel fuel purchases.purchased for use in its operations, and (4) interest rate risk on long-term debt. These risk management activities are collectively referred to as “Corporate Hedging” and are actively monitored for compliance with the Company’s risk management policies.


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The Company had no diesel fuel derivatives in place as of September 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company had currency options outstanding with an aggregate notional amount of $675.0 million$1.0 billion Australian dollars to hedge currency risk associated with anticipated Australian dollar expenditures during the remainder of 20182019 and over the first three months of 2019.2020. The instruments are quarterly average rate options whereby the Company is entitled to receive payment on the notional amount should the quarterly average Australian dollar-to-U.S. dollar exchange rate exceed amounts ranging from $0.79$0.74 to $0.82over$0.77 over the remainder of 20182019 and over the first three months of 2019. The Company does not seek cash flow hedge accounting treatment for the currency options and thus changes in fair value are reflected in current earnings. The currency options’ fair value2020.
As of $0.2 million and $4.2 million was included in “Other current assets” in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets as of SeptemberJune 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.
Subsequent to September 30, 2018,2019, the Company purchased additional quarterly average rate options withheld coal-related financial contracts related to a portion of its forecasted sales for an aggregate notional amountvolume of $275.03.2 million Australian dollars to hedge currency risk associated with anticipated Australian dollar expenditures duringtonnes. Such financial contracts include futures, forwards and options. Of the first half ofaggregate notional volume, 1.7 million tonnes will settle in 2019 shouldand the quarterly average Australian dollar-to-U.S. dollar exchange rate exceed approximately $0.76 over that period. remainder will settle in 2020.
The Company incurred premium costshad no diesel fuel or interest rate derivatives in place as of approximately $0.8 million for these options.June 30, 2019.
The tables below show the classification and amounts of pre-tax gains and losses related to the Company’s Corporate Hedging derivatives:

         
    Successor
    Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
Financial Instrument Income Statement Classification Total loss recognized in income Loss realized in income on derivatives Unrealized gain recognized in income on non-designated derivatives
   (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts Operating costs and expenses $(1.5) $(1.8) $0.3
Total   $(1.5) $(1.8) $0.3
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    Successor
    Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
Financial Instrument Income Statement Classification Total gain recognized in income Gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized loss recognized in income on non-designated derivatives
   (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts Operating costs and expenses $5.6
 $7.3
 $(1.7)
Total   $5.6
 $7.3
 $(1.7)
         
    Successor
    Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
Financial Instrument Income Statement Classification Total loss recognized in income Loss realized in income on derivatives Unrealized loss recognized in income on non-designated derivatives
   (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts Operating costs and expenses $(7.9) $(6.5) $(1.4)
Total   $(7.9) $(6.5) $(1.4)
         
    Successor
    April 2 through September 30, 2017
Financial Instrument Income Statement Classification Total gain recognized in income Gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized gain recognized in income on non-designated derivatives
   (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts Operating costs and expenses $8.5
 $7.0
 $1.5
Total   $8.5
 $7.0
 $1.5


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    Predecessor
    January 1 through April 1, 2017
Financial Instrument Income Statement Classification Total loss recognized in income Loss reclassified from other comprehensive loss into income
   (Dollars in millions)
Commodity swap contracts Operating costs and expenses $(11.0) $(11.0)
Foreign currency option contracts Operating costs and expenses (16.6) (16.6)
Total   $(27.6) $(27.6)
Cash Flow Presentation. The Company classifies the cash effects of its Corporate Hedging derivatives within the “Cash Flows From Operating Activities” section of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
Fair Value Measurements
The Company uses a three-level fair value hierarchy that categorizes assets and liabilities measured at fair value based on the observability of the inputs utilized in the valuation. These levels include: Level 1 - inputs are quoted prices in active markets for the identical assets or liabilities; Level 2 - inputs are other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are directly or indirectly observable through market-corroborated inputs; and Level 3 - inputs are unobservable, or observable but cannot be market-corroborated, requiring the Company to make assumptions about pricing by market participants.
Financial Instruments Measured on a Recurring Basis. The following tables set forth the hierarchy of the Company’s net financial asset positions for which fair value is measured on a recurring basis:
 September 30, 2018
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Equity securities$
 $
 $10.0
 $10.0
Foreign currency contracts
 0.2
 
 0.2
Total net financial assets$
 $0.2
 $10.0
 $10.2
        
 December 31, 2017
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency contracts$
 $4.2
 $
 $4.2
Total net financial assets$
 $4.2
 $
 $4.2
For Level 1 and 2 financial assets and liabilities, the Company utilizes both direct and indirect observable price quotes, including interest rate yield curves, exchange indices, broker/dealer quotes, published indices, issuer spreads, benchmark securities and other market quotes. In the case of certain debt securities, fair value is provided by a third-party pricing service. Below is a summary of the Company’s valuation techniques for Level 1 and 2 financial assets and liabilities:
Foreign currency forward and option contracts: valued utilizing inputs obtained in quoted public markets (Level 2) except when credit and non-performance risk is considered to be a significant input, then the Company classifies such contracts as Level 3.
Other Financial Instruments. The Company used the following methods and assumptions in estimating fair values for other financial instruments as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:
Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, including those within the Company’s accounts receivable securitization program, notes receivable and accounts payable have carrying values which approximate fair value due to the short maturity or the liquid nature of these instruments.
Investments in equity securities are based on observed prices in an inactive market (Level 3).
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The carrying amounts and estimated fair values of the Company’s current and long-term debt as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 are summarized as follows:
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 Carrying
Amount
 Estimated
Fair Value
 Carrying
Amount
 Estimated
Fair Value
 (Dollars in millions)
Current and Long-term debt$1,376.2
 $1,451.0
 $1,460.8
 $1,547.4
The Company had no transfers between fair value hierarchy levels for either financial instruments measured on a recurring basis or other financial instruments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, the three months ended September 30, 2017, the period April 2 through September 30, 2017 or the period January 1 through April 1, 2017. The Company’s policy is to value all transfers between levels using the beginning of period valuation.
(7)     Coal Trading Activities
TheOn a limited basis, the Company engages in the direct and brokered trading of coal and freight-related contracts (coal trading). Except those contracts for which the Company has elected to apply a normal purchases and normal sales exception, all derivative coal trading contracts are accounted for at fair value. Coal brokering is conducted both as principal and agent in support of various coal production-related activities that may involve coal produced from the Company'sCompany’s mines, coal sourcing arrangements with third-party mining companies or offtake agreements with other coal producers. The Company’s Trading and Brokerage segmentCompany also provides transportation-related services, which involve both financial derivative contracts and physical contracts. Collectively, coal and freight-related hedging activities include both economic hedging and, from time to time, cash flow hedging in support of the Company'sCompany’s coal trading strategy.
The Company includes instruments associated with coal trading transactions as a part of its trading book. Trading revenues Revenues from such transactions are recorded in “Other revenues” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and include realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivative instruments, including those that arise from coal deliveries related to contracts accounted for on an accrual basis under the normal purchases and normal sales exception. Therefore, the Company has elected the trading exemption surrounding disclosure of its coal trading activities.
Trading revenues (losses) recognized during the periods presented below were as follows:
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor
Trading Revenues (Losses) by Type of Instrument Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  (Dollars in millions)
Futures, swaps and options $(12.1) $(17.1) $(44.3) $(24.4)$(10.2)
Physical purchase/sale contracts 34.7
 36.5
 97.0
 49.0
25.2
Total trading revenues $22.6
 $19.4
 $52.7
 $24.6
$15.0
Offsetting and Balance Sheet Presentation
The Company has master netting agreements with certain of its counterparties which allow for the settlement of contracts in an asset position with contracts in a liability position in the event of default or termination. Such netting arrangements reduce the Company’s credit exposure related to these counterparties. For classification purposes, the Company records the net fair value of all the positions with a given counterparty as a net asset or liability in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The Company’s coal trading assets and liabilities include financial instruments such as swaps, futures and options, cleared through various exchanges, which involve the daily net settlement of open positions. The Company must post cash collateral in the form of initial margin, in addition to variation margin, on exchange-cleared positions that are in a net liability position and receives variation margin when in a net asset position. The Company also transacts in coal trading financial swaps and options through over-the-counter (OTC) markets with financial institutions and other non-financial trading entities under International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreements, which contain symmetrical default provisions. Certain of the Company’s coal trading agreements with OTC counterparties also contain credit support provisions that may periodically require the Company to post, or entitle the Company to receive, variation margin. Physical coal and freight-related purchase and sale contracts included in the Company’s coal trading assets and liabilities are executed pursuant to master purchase and sale agreements that also contain symmetrical default provisions and allow for the netting and setoff of receivables and payables that arise during the same time period. The Company offsets its coal trading asset and liability derivative positions, and variation margin related to those positions, on a counterparty-by-counterparty basis in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, with thesheets.
The fair valuesvalue of those respective derivatives reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets are set forth in the table below.
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 Asset Derivative Liability Derivative Asset Derivative Liability Derivative
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$1.2
 $
 $1.2
 $
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales34.7
 (3.7) 6.6
 (23.1)
Coal trading contracts187.2
 (168.1) 59.7
 (64.4)
Total derivatives223.1
 (171.8) 67.5
 (87.5)
Effect of counterparty netting(171.8) 171.8
 (64.5) 64.5
Variation margin (held) posted(46.1) 
 
 21.8
Net derivatives and margin as classified in the balance sheets$5.2
 $
 $3.0
 $(1.2)

The net amount of asset derivatives, net of margin, are included in “Other current assets” and the net amount of liability derivatives, net of margin, are included in “Accounts payable and accrued expenses.”expenses” in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Effects of Derivatives on Measures of Financial Performance
Currently, the Company does not seek cash flow hedge accounting treatment for its currency- or coal-related derivative financial instruments and thus changes in fair value are reflected in current earnings.



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The tables below show the amounts of pre-tax gains and losses related to the Company’s derivatives.
 Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Total (loss) gain recognized in income (Loss) gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized (loss) gain recognized in income on derivatives
Financial Instrument  
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$(1.4) $(1.1) $(0.3)
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales49.4
 27.0
 22.4
Coal trading contracts(0.3) (6.0) 5.7
Total$47.7
 $19.9
 $27.8
 Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
 Total loss recognized in income (Loss) gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized gain (loss) recognized in income on derivatives
Financial Instrument  
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$(2.2) $(2.3) $0.1
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales(36.4) 11.7
 (48.1)
Coal trading contracts(1.7) 1.1
 (2.8)
Total$(40.3) $10.5
 $(50.8)
 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Total (loss) gain recognized in income (Loss) gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized (loss) gain recognized in income on derivatives
Financial Instrument  
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$(2.5) $(2.4) $(0.1)
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales100.2
 38.0
 62.2
Coal trading contracts(1.3) (10.8) 9.5
Total$96.4
 $24.8
 $71.6
 Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
 Total (loss) gain recognized in income (Loss) gain realized in income on derivatives Unrealized loss recognized in income on derivatives
Financial Instrument  
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$(6.4) $(4.7) $(1.7)
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales23.3
 32.8
 (9.5)
Coal trading contracts(2.7) (1.7) (1.0)
Total$14.2
 $26.4
 $(12.2)

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, gains and losses on foreign currency option contracts were included in “Operating costs and expenses,” and gains and losses on coal contracts related to forecasted sales and those related to coal trading contracts were included in “Revenues” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
The Company classifies the cash effects of its derivatives within the “Cash Flows From Operating Activities” section of the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.


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Fair Value Measurements
The Company uses a three-level fair value ofhierarchy that categorizes assets and liabilities from coal trading activities presented on a gross and net basis as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 is set forth below:
Affected Line Item in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets 
Gross Amounts of Recognized Assets (Liabilities) (1)
 Gross Amounts Offset in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets Variation Margin Posted Net Amounts of Assets (Liabilities) Presented in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
  (Dollars in millions)
  Fair Value as of September 30, 2018
Other current assets $81.8
 $(81.5) $
 $0.3
Accounts payable and accrued expenses (160.4) 81.5
 69.3
 (9.6)
Total, net $(78.6) $
 $69.3
 $(9.3)
         
  Fair Value as of December 31, 2017
Other current assets $77.1
 $(74.5) $
 $2.6
Accounts payable and accrued expenses (122.0) 74.5
 35.8
 (11.7)
Total, net $(44.9) $
 $35.8
 $(9.1)
(1)
Amounts include net liabilities of $75.2 million and $38.9 million at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively, representing the fair value of financial contracts used to hedge future coal sales, as further described in Note 3. “Revenue Recognition.”
The Company is exposed to the risk of changes in coal pricesmeasured at fair value based on the value of its coal trading portfolio. At September 30, 2018, the estimated future realizationobservability of the value ofinputs utilized in the trading portfolio was $12.0 million of gains duringvaluation. These levels include: Level 1 - inputs are quoted prices in active markets for the remainder of 2018, $10.9 million of losses during 2019, $5.3 million of losses during 2020,identical assets or liabilities; Level 2 - inputs are other than quoted prices included in Level 1 that are directly or indirectly observable through market-corroborated inputs; and $0.2 million of gains during 2021.
Fair Value MeasurementsLevel 3 - inputs are unobservable, or observable but cannot be market-corroborated, requiring the Company to make assumptions about pricing by market participants.
The following tables set forth the hierarchy of the Company’s net financial liability coal tradingasset positions for which fair value is measured on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:basis:
 June 30, 2019
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$
 $1.2
 $
 $1.2
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales
 41.3
 
 41.3
Coal trading contracts
 (37.3) 
 (37.3)
Equity securities
 
 10.0
 10.0
Total net financial assets$
 $5.2
 $10.0
 $15.2
        
 December 31, 2018
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Foreign currency option contracts$
 $1.2
 $
 $1.2
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales
 (21.2) 
 (21.2)
Coal trading contracts
 21.8
 
 21.8
Equity securities
 
 10.0
 10.0
Total net financial assets$
 $1.8
 $10.0
 $11.8
 September 30, 2018
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Futures, swaps and options$
 $(2.1) $
 $(2.1)
Physical purchase/sale contracts
 (5.5) (1.7) (7.2)
Total net financial liabilities$
 $(7.6) $(1.7) $(9.3)
 December 31, 2017
 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Futures, swaps and options$(3.0) $(4.2) $
 $(7.2)
Physical purchase/sale contracts
 (1.9) 
 (1.9)
Total net financial liabilities$(3.0) $(6.1) $
 $(9.1)

For Level 1 and 2 financial assets and liabilities, the Company utilizes both direct and indirect observable price quotes, including U.S. interest rate curves; LIBOR yield curves; Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, Intercontinental Exchange, Baltic Exchange and Singapore Exchange contract prices; broker quotes;curves, exchange indices, broker/dealer quotes, published indices;indices, issuer spreads, benchmark securities and other market quotes. In the case of certain debt securities, fair value is provided by a third-party pricing service. Below is a summary of the Company’s valuation techniques for Level 1 and 2 financial assets and liabilities:
Futures, swapsForeign currency option contracts: valued utilizing inputs obtained in quoted public markets (Level 2) except when credit and options:non-performance risk is considered to be a significant input, then the Company classifies such contracts as Level 3.
Coal contracts related to forecasted sales and coal trading contracts: generally valued based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets (Level 1) or a valuation that is corroborated by the use of market-based pricing (Level 2) except when credit and non-performance risk is considered to be a significant input (greater than 10% of fair value), then the Company classifies as Level 3.
Physical purchase/sale contracts: purchasesInvestments in equity securities are based on observed prices in an inactive market (Level 3).
Other Financial Instruments. The following methods and sales at locations with significant market activity corroboratedassumptions were used by market-based information (Level 2) except when credit and non-performance risk is considered to be a significant input (greater than 10% of fair value), then the Company classifiesin estimating fair values for other financial instruments as Level 3.of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018:

Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, including those within the Company’s accounts receivable securitization program, notes receivable and accounts payable have carrying values which approximate fair value due to the short maturity or the liquid nature of these instruments.
Long-term debt fair value estimates are based on observed prices for securities with an active trading market when available (Level 2), and otherwise on estimated borrowing rates to discount the cash flows to their present value (Level 3).



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The carrying amount and estimated fair values of the Company’s current and long-term debt as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 are summarized as follows:
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 Carrying
Amount
 Estimated
Fair Value
 Carrying
Amount
 Estimated
Fair Value
 (Dollars in millions)
Current and Long-term debt$1,355.6
 $1,431.0
 $1,367.0
 $1,366.2

The Company’s risk management function, which is independent of the Company'sCompany’s coal trading function, is responsible for valuation policies and procedures, with oversight from executive management. Generally, the Company'sCompany’s Level 3 instruments or contracts are valued using bid/ask price quotations and other market assessments obtained from multiple, independent third-party brokers or other transactional data incorporated into internally-generated discounted cash flow models. Decreases in the number of third-party brokers or market liquidity could erode the quality of market information and therefore the valuation of the Company'sCompany’s market positions. The Company'sCompany’s valuation techniques include basis adjustments to the foregoing price inputs for quality, such as sulfur and ash content, location differentials, expressed as port and freight costs, and credit risk. The Company'sCompany’s risk management function independently validates the Company'sCompany’s valuation inputs, including unobservable inputs, with third-party information and settlement prices from other sources where available. A daily process is performed to analyze market price changes and changes to the portfolio. Further periodic validation occurs at the time contracts are settled with the counterparty. These valuation techniques have been consistently applied in all periods presented, and the Company believes it has obtained the most accurate information available for the types of derivative contracts held.
The following table summarizes the quantitative unobservable inputs utilized in the Company's internally-developed valuation models for physical purchase/sale contracts classified as Level 3 as of September 30, 2018:
  Range Weighted
Input Low High Average
Quality (35.6)% (36.0)% (35.8)%
Significant increases or decreases in the inputs in isolation could result in a significantly higher or lower fair value measurement. The unobservable inputs do not have a direct interrelationship; therefore, a change in one unobservable input would not necessarily correspond with a change in another unobservable input.
The following table summarizes the changes in the Company’s recurring Level 3 net financial assets:
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor
  Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  (Dollars in millions)
Beginning of period $
 $
 $
 $(0.7)$(1.1)
Transfers out of Level 3 
 
 
 0.7
0.2
Total (losses) gains realized/unrealized included in earnings (1.7) 
 (1.7) 
0.2
End of period $(1.7) $
 $(1.7) $
$(0.7)
The Company had no transfers between Levels 1, 2 and 23 during the periods presented in the table above. Transfers of liabilities into/out of Level 3 from/to Level 2 during the periods April 2 through Septemberthree and six months ended June 30, 20172019 and January 1 through April 1, 2017 were due to the relative value of unobservable inputs to the total fair value measurement of certain derivative contracts falling below, or in the case of transfers in rising above, the 10% threshold.2018. The Company’s policy is to value all transfers between levels using the beginning of period valuation.
The following table summarizes the changes in net unrealized (losses) gains relating to Level 3 net financial assets held both as of the beginning and the end of the period:
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor
  Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  (Dollars in millions)
Changes in unrealized (losses) gains (1)
 $(1.7) $
 $(1.7) $
$0.3
(1)
Within the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income for the periods presented, unrealized gains and losses from Level 3 items are combined with unrealized gains and losses on positions classified in Level 1 or 2, as well as other positions that have been realized during the applicable periods.


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Credit and Non-performanceNonperformance Risk.The fair value of the Company’s coal derivative assets and liabilities reflects adjustments for credit risk. The Company’s exposure is substantially with electric utilities, energy marketers, steel producers and nonfinancial trading houses. The Company’s policy is to independently evaluate each customer’s creditworthiness prior to entering into transactions and to regularly monitor the credit extended. If the Company engages in a transaction with a counterparty that does not meet its credit standards, the Company seeks to protect its position by requiring the counterparty to provide an appropriate credit enhancement. Also, when appropriate (as determined by its credit management function), the Company has taken steps to reduce its exposure to customers or counterparties whose credit has deteriorated and who may pose a higher risk of failure to perform under their contractual obligations. These steps include obtaining letters of credit or cash collateral (margin), requiring prepayments for shipments or the creation of customer trust accounts held for the Company’s benefit to serve as collateral in the event of a failure to pay or perform. To reduce its credit exposure related to trading and brokerage activities, the Company seeks to enter into netting agreements with counterparties that permit the Company to offset asset and liability positions with such counterparties and, to the extent required, the Company will post or receive margin amounts associated with exchange-cleared and certain OTC positions. The Company also continually monitors counterparty and contract non-performance risk, if present, on a case-by-case basis.
At SeptemberAs of June 30, 2018, 93%2019, 62% of the Company’s credit exposure related to coal trading activities was with investment grade counterparties while 0% was with non-investment grade counterparties and 7%38% was with counterparties that are not rated.
Performance Assurances and Collateral
The Company is required by the exchanges upon which it transacts to post certain additional collateral, known as initial margin, which represents an estimate of potential future adverse price movements across the Company’s portfolio under normal market conditions. The Company posted initial margin of $15.3 million and $16.7 million as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively, which is reflected in “Other current assets” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2019, the Company had posted $0.3 million in excess of initial margin requirements, while as of December 31, 2018, the Company was in receipt of $2.2 million.


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The Company is required to post variation margin on positions that are in a net liability position and is entitled to receive and hold variation margin on positions that are in a net asset position with an exchange and certain of its OTC derivative contract counterparties. At September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, the Company posted a net variation margin of $69.3 million and $35.8 million, respectively.
In addition to the requirements surrounding variation margin, the Company is required by the exchanges upon which it transacts to post certain additional collateral, known as initial margin, which represents an estimate of potential future adverse price movements across the Company’s portfolio under normal market conditions. The Company posted initial margin of $19.4 million as of September 30, 2018, compared to $18.8 million as of December 31, 2017, which is reflected in “Other current assets” in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017,2019, the Company was in receipt of $0.2$46.1 million and $1.8in variation margin, while it had posted $21.8 million respectively, of the requirednet variation and initial margin.margin at December 31, 2018.
Certain of the Company’s derivative trading instruments require the parties to provide additional performance assurances whenever a material adverse event jeopardizes one party’s ability to perform under the instrument. If the Company was to sustain a material adverse event (using commercially reasonable standards), its counterparties could request collateralization on derivative trading instruments in net liability positions which, based on an aggregate fair value at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017,values, would have amounted torequired no additional collateral postings to counterparties ofat June 30, 2019, and approximately $9.7$1.3 million and $7.0 million, respectively.at December 31, 2018. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the Company was not required to post collateral whereas on December 31, 2017, the Company was required to post approximately $0.4 million in collateral to counterparties for such positions.


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(8)(9)     Intangible Contract Assets and Liabilities
AtAs described in Note 2. “Emergence from the Effective Date,Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and Note 3. “Acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine,” the Company has recorded intangible assets of $314.9 million and liabilities of $58.7 million to reflect the inherent fair value of certain U.S. coal supply agreements as a result of favorable and unfavorable differences between contract terms and estimated market terms for the same coal products, and also recorded intangible liabilities of $116.2 million related to unutilized capacity under its port and rail take-or-pay contracts. The balances, net of accumulated amortization, and respective balance sheet classifications of such assets and liabilities at SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and December 31, 2017, net of accumulated amortization,2018, are set forth in the following tables:
 June 30, 2019
 Assets Liabilities Net Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Coal supply agreements$51.9
 $(25.5) $26.4
Take-or-pay contracts
 (45.6) (45.6)
Total$51.9
 $(71.1) $(19.2)
      
Balance sheet classification:     
Investments and other assets$51.9
 $
 $51.9
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 (11.2) (11.2)
Other noncurrent liabilities
 (59.9) (59.9)
Total$51.9
 $(71.1) $(19.2)
      
 December 31, 2018
 Assets Liabilities Net Total
 (Dollars in millions)
Coal supply agreements$70.9
 $(32.9) $38.0
Take-or-pay contracts
 (57.1) (57.1)
Total$70.9
 $(90.0) $(19.1)
      
Balance sheet classification:     
Investments and other assets$70.9
 $
 $70.9
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 (20.3) (20.3)
Other noncurrent liabilities
 (69.7) (69.7)
Total$70.9
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 September 30, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
 Assets Liabilities Net Total
Coal supply agreements$88.5
 $(32.4) $56.1
Take-or-pay contracts
 (63.6) (63.6)
Total$88.5
 $(96.0) $(7.5)
      
Balance sheet classification:     
Investments and other assets$88.5
 $
 $88.5
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 (19.5) (19.5)
Other noncurrent liabilities
 (76.5) (76.5)
Total$88.5
 $(96.0) $(7.5)
      
 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
 Assets Liabilities Net Total
Coal supply agreements$177.2
 $(42.7) $134.5
Take-or-pay contracts
 (90.7) (90.7)
Total$177.2
 $(133.4) $43.8
      
Balance sheet classification:     
Investments and other assets$177.2
 $
 $177.2
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 (27.6) (27.6)
Other noncurrent liabilities
 (105.8) (105.8)
Total$177.2
 $(133.4) $43.8

Amortization of the intangible assets and liabilities related to coal supply agreements occurs ratably based upon coal volumes shipped per contract and is recorded as a component of “Depreciation, depletion and amortization” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. Such amortization amounted to $24.0$6.8 million and $78.4 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, and $41.5 million and $71.2$25.1 million during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172019 and 2018, respectively, and $11.6 million and $54.4 million during the period April 2 through Septembersix months ended June 30, 2017,2019 and 2018, respectively. The Company anticipates net amortization of sales contracts, based upon expected shipments, in the next five years, to be an expense of approximately $19$15 million during the threeremaining six months ended December 31, 2018,of 2019, and for the years 20192020 through 2022,2023, expense of approximately $26 million, $8 million, $3 million, $1 million and $1 million, respectively.
Future unutilized capacity and the amortization periods related to the take-or-pay contract intangible liabilities are based upon estimates of forecasted usage. Such amortization, which is classified as a reduction to “Operating costs and expenses” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, amounted to $5.4$5.6 million and $21.5 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, and $6.5 million and $16.4$7.8 million during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20172019 and 2018, respectively, and $11.2 million and $16.1 million during the period April 2 through Septembersix months ended June 30, 2017,2019 and 2018, respectively. The Company anticipates net amortization of take-or-pay contract intangible liabilities to be approximately $5$6 million during the threeremaining six months ended December 31, 2018,of 2019, and for the years 20192020 through 2022,2023, approximately $17$8 million, $9$4 million, $4$3 million and $3 million, respectively, and $26$22 million thereafter.

(10) Property, Plant, Equipment and Mine Development
The composition of property, plant, equipment and mine development, net, as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 is set forth in the table below:

 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Land and coal interests$4,164.3
 $4,148.8
Buildings and improvements549.1
 559.3
Machinery and equipment1,528.7
 1,456.3
Less: Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization(1,267.3) (957.4)
Property, plant, equipment and mine development, net$4,974.8
 $5,207.0
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(11) Leases
The Company has operating and finance leases for mining and non-mining equipment, office space and certain other facilities under various non-cancellable agreements. Historically, the majority of the Company’s leases have been accounted for as operating leases.
The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. ROU assets represent the Company's right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent its obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. For the purpose of calculating such present values, lease payments include components that vary based upon an index or rate, using the prevailing index or rate at the commencement date, and exclude components that vary based upon other factors. As most of its leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The Company's leases may include options to extend or terminate the lease, and such options are reflected in the term when their exercise is reasonably certain. Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
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(9) Equity Method Investments
The Company had total equity method investmentsand certain of $66.4 millionits subsidiaries have guaranteed other subsidiaries’ performance under various lease obligations. Certain lease agreements are subject to the restrictive covenants of the Company’s credit facilities and $82.1 million reflected in “Investments and other assets” ininclude cross-acceleration provisions, under which the condensed consolidated balance sheets aslessor could require remedies including, but not limited to, immediate recovery of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively, relatedthe present value of any remaining lease payments. The Company typically agrees to Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd (Middlemount). As noted in Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-Kindemnify lessors for the year ended December 31, 2017, the carrying value of the equity method investments was adjustedproperty or equipment leased, should the property be damaged or lost during the course of the Company’s operations. The Company expects that losses with respect to fair value in connection with fresh start reporting based onleased property, if any, may be covered by insurance (subject to deductibles). Aside from indemnification of the net presentlessor for the value of future cash flows associated withthe property leased, the Company’s 50% equity interestmaximum potential obligations under its leases are equal to the respective future minimum lease payments, and the Company assumes that no amounts could be recovered from third parties. In this regard, the Company has recorded provisions amounting to $50.7 million related to the loss of leased equipment at its North Goonyella Mine as described in Middlemount.Note 16. “Other Events.”
One of the Company’s operating lease agreements for underground mining equipment in Australia entered into in 2013 requires contingent rent to be paid only if and when certain coal is mined at a specified margin as defined in the agreements. There was no contingent expense related to that arrangement for the periods listed below.
The Company received cash payments from Middlemountcomponents of $81.1lease expense during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 were as follows:
 Three Months Ended June 30, 2019 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 (Dollars in millions)
Operating lease cost:   
Operating lease cost$11.8
 $27.2
Short-term lease cost7.4
 15.7
Variable lease cost8.5
 14.5
Sublease income(0.4) (0.8)
Total operating lease cost$27.3
 $56.6
    
Finance lease cost:   
Amortization of right-of-use assets$1.9
 $8.6
Interest on lease liabilities0.4
 0.9
Total finance lease cost$2.3
 $9.5

Rental expense under operating leases, including expense related to short-term operating leases, was $40.9 million and $86.3 million during the ninethree and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, and $35.2 million and $31.1 millionrespectively.


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Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases at June 30, 2019 was as follows:
 June 30, 2019
 (Dollars in millions)
Operating leases: 
Operating lease right-of-use assets$93.1
  
Accounts payable and accrued expenses$(29.4)
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion(58.0)
Total operating lease liabilities$(87.4)
  
Finance leases: 
Property, plant, equipment and mine development$96.8
Accumulated depreciation(47.8)
Property, plant, equipment and mine development, net$49.0
  
Current portion of long-term debt$24.5
Long-term debt, less current portion
Total finance lease liabilities$24.5
  
Weighted average remaining lease term (years) 
Operating leases4.1
Finance leases0.7
  
Weighted average discount rate 
Operating leases7.4%
Finance leases5.9%

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases during the periods April 2 through Septemberthree and six months ended June 30, 2017 and January2019 was as follows:
 Three Months Ended June 30, 2019 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 (Dollars in millions)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:   
Operating cash flows for operating leases$9.3
 $33.3
Operating cash flows for finance leases0.4
 1.2
Financing cash flows for finance leases8.2
 18.4
    
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:   
Operating leases$27.3
 $27.8
Finance leases1.4
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The Company's leases have remaining lease terms of 1 through April 1, 2017, respectively.year to 11.8 years, some of which include options to extend the terms deemed reasonably certain of exercise. Maturities of lease liabilities were as follows:
Period Ending December 31, Operating Leases Finance Leases
  (Dollars in millions)
2019 $16.8
 $17.4
2020 30.0
 7.6
2021 18.4
 
2022 13.3
 
2023 12.2
 
2024 and thereafter 12.1
 
Total lease payments 102.8
 25.0
Less imputed interest (15.4) (0.5)
Total lease liabilities $87.4
 $24.5

(10) Property, Plant, Equipment and Mine Development
The composition of property, plant, equipment and mine development, net, as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 is set forth in the table below. Refer to Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 for details regarding the impact of fresh start reporting on property, plant, equipment and mine development.
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Land and coal interests$3,900.4
 $3,890.5
Buildings and improvements457.0
 470.6
Machinery and equipment1,304.1
 1,149.3
Less: Accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization(809.6) (398.5)
Property, plant, equipment and mine development, net$4,851.9
 $5,111.9
(11)(12)  Income Taxes
The Company’s income tax provision of $13.8$3.0 million and $31.3$7.4 million for the three and nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, included a tax benefitsbenefit of $0.3 million and $0.2$0.4 million, respectively, related to the remeasurement of foreign income tax accounts. The Company’s income tax benefitprovision of $84.1 million, $79.4$21.8 million and $263.8$17.5 million for the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017, the period April 2 through September 30, 20172019 and the period January 1 through April 1, 2017,2018, respectively, included a tax provisionsbenefit of $0.9 million, $1.0$0.3 million and $9.4a tax provision of $0.1 million, respectively, related to the remeasurement of foreign income tax accounts. The Company’s effective tax rate before remeasurement for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 is based on the Company’s estimated full year effective tax rate, comprised of expected statutory tax provision, offset by foreign rate differential and changes in valuation allowances.
On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) was signed into law making significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code. Certain provisions of the Act applied to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 and therefore have an impact on the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The Company has determined that a significant portion of the provisions will not have a material impact. The Company is continuing to gather additional information and anticipates completing the accounting for the following item by December 22, 2018:
Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI): The Act subjects a U.S. shareholder to current tax on GILTI of its controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. GILTI is calculated as the excess of a U.S. shareholder’s pro-rata share of net income of CFCs over a calculated return on specific tangible assets of the CFCs. The GILTI will be offset by net operating losses in the U.S. and a corresponding valuation allowance release and will not impact the effective tax rate. The Company has elected to account for GILTI as a period charge in the period the tax arises.


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

The Company has not completed its assessment for the income tax effects of the Act related to the repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax system, remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities and elimination of executive compensation exemptions. However, as noted in Note 11. “Income Taxes” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company was able to reasonably estimate certain effects for these items and therefore recorded provisional adjustments. The Company has analyzed the additional regulatory guidance related to executive compensation limits that was issued during the current quarter, and determined that it will not impact the adjustments that have been recorded.  Finalization of each of these is expected to occur upon the filing of the 2017 federal tax return in the fourth quarter of 2018.  As a result, the Company has not made any additional measurement-period adjustments related to these items during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. The Company is continuing to gather additional information and anticipates completing the analysis for these items by December 22, 2018, within the one-year measurement period.
(12)(13)     Long-term Debt 
In accordance with the Plan, the Company was recapitalized with new debt and equity instruments, including the 6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022, the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025 and the Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025 in the table below. The Company’s total indebtedness as of SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and December 31, 20172018 consisted of the following:
 June 30, 2019 December 31, 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022$500.0
 $500.0
6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025500.0
 500.0
Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025, net of original issue discount394.0
 395.9
Finance lease and other obligations24.5
 40.0
Less: Debt issuance costs(62.9) (68.9)
 1,355.6
 1,367.0
Less: Current portion of long-term debt28.5
 36.5
Long-term debt$1,327.1
 $1,330.5
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022$500.0
 $500.0
6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025500.0
 500.0
Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025, net of original issue discount397.0
 444.2
Capital lease and other obligations51.1
 76.0
Less: Debt issuance costs(71.9) (59.4)
 1,376.2
 1,460.8
Less: Current portion of long-term debt42.0
 42.1
Long-term debt$1,334.2
 $1,418.7
In connection with the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company was required to pay adequate protection payments of $29.8 million to certain first lien creditors of the Predecessor company during the period January 1 through April 1, 2017. The adequate protection payments were recorded as “Interest expense” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and ceased upon the Effective Date. The Company did not record interest expense subsequent to the filing of the Bankruptcy Petitions for the majority non-first lien Predecessor indebtedness, which was automatically stayed in accordance with Section 502(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code. The amount of contractual interest stayed was $92.9 million for the period January 1, 2017 through the Effective Date.
6.000% and 6.375% Senior Secured Notes
On February 15, 2017, one of PEC’s subsidiaries entered into an indenture (the Indenture) with Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, relating to the issuance by PEC’s subsidiary of $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.000% senior secured notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% senior secured notes due 2025 (the 2025 Notes and, together with the 2022 Notes, the Senior Notes). The Senior Notes were sold on February 15, 2017 in a private transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933. The proceeds from the Senior Notes were used to repay the Predecessor company first lien obligations.
The Senior Notes were issued at par value. The Company paid aggregate debt issuance costs of $49.5 million related to the offering, which will beare being amortized over the respective terms of the Senior Notes. Interest payments on the Senior Notes are scheduled to occur each year on March 31st31 and September 30th30 until maturity. During the three and nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017,2018, the Company recorded interest expense of $19.1 million, $54.0$18.6 million and $30.6$17.5 million, respectively, and during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded interest expense of $36.1 million and $34.9 million, respectively, related to the Senior Notes, respectively.Notes.


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

The Company may redeem the 2022 Notes during 2019, in whole or in part, beginning in 2019 at 103.0% of par, in 2020 at 101.5% of par, and in 2021 and thereafter at par. The 2025 Notes may be redeemed, in whole or in part, beginning in 2020 at 104.8% of par, in 2021 at 103.2% of par, in 2022 at 101.6% of par, and in 2023 and thereafter at par. In addition, prior to the first date on which the Senior Notes are redeemable at the redemption prices noted above, the Company may also redeem some or all of the Senior Notes at a calculated make-whole premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest.


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

On August 9, 2018, the Company executed an amendment to the Indenture following the solicitation of consents from the requisite majorities of holders of each series of Senior Notes. The amendment permits a category of restricted payments at any time not to exceed the sum of $650.0 million, plus an additional $150.0 million per calendar year, commencing with calendar year 2019, with unused amounts in any calendar year carrying forward to and available for restricted payments in any subsequent calendar year. The Company paid consenting Senior Note holders $10.00 in cash per $1,000 principal amount of 2022 Notes orand $30.00 in cash per $1,000 principal amount of 2025 Notes, which amounted to $19.8 million.million in aggregate consent payments. Such consent feespayments were capitalized as additional debt issuance costs to be amortized over the respective terms of the Senior Notes. The Company also expensed $1.5 million of other feespayments associated with the amendment to “Interest expense” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the three months ended September 30, 2018.
The Indenture contains customary conditions of default and imposes certain restrictions on the Company’s activities, including its ability to incur liens, incur debt, make investments, engage in fundamental changes such as mergers and dissolutions, dispose of assets, enter into transactions with affiliates and make certain restricted payments, such as cash dividends and share repurchases.
The Senior Notes rank senior in right of payment to any subordinated indebtedness and equally in right of payment with any senior indebtedness to the extent of the collateral securing that indebtedness. The Senior Notes are jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis by substantially all of the Company’s material domestic subsidiaries and secured by first priority liens over (1) substantially all of the assets of the Company and the guarantors, except for certain excluded assets, (2) 100% of the capital stock of each domestic restricted subsidiary of the Company, (3) 100% of the non-voting capital stock of each first tier foreign subsidiary of the Company or a foreign subsidiary holding company and no more than 65% of the voting capital stock of each first tier foreign subsidiary of the Company or a foreign subsidiary holding company, (4) a legal charge of 65% of the voting capital stock and 100% of the non-voting capital stock of Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited and (5) all intercompany debt owed to the Company or any guarantor, in each case, subject to certain exceptions. The obligations under the Senior Notes are secured on a pari passu basis by the same collateral securing the Credit Agreement (as defined below), subject to certain exceptions.
Credit Agreement
In connection with an exit facility commitment letter, on the Effective Date, theThe Company entered into a credit agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Company, as Borrower,borrower, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Administrative Agent,administrative agent, and other lenders party thereto (the Credit Agreement). The Credit Agreement originally provided for a $950.0 million senior secured term loan (the Senior Secured Term Loan), which was to mature in 2022 prior to the amendments described below. The proceeds from the Senior Secured Term Loan were used to repay the Predecessor company first lien obligations.
Following the voluntary prepayments and amendments described below, the Credit Agreement provided for a $400.0 million first lien senior secured term loan, which bore interest at LIBOR plus 2.75% per annum as of SeptemberJune 30, 2018.2019. During the three and nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017,2018, the Company recorded interest expense of $5.1 million, $18.5$5.7 million and $13.1$6.6 million, respectively, and during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded interest expense of $11.4 million and $13.4 million, respectively, related to the Senior Secured Term Loan, respectively.Loan.


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

Proceeds from the Senior Secured Term Loan were received net of an original issue discount and deferred financing costs of $37.3 million that will beare being amortized over its term. The loan principal is payable in quarterly installments plus accrued interest through December 2024 with the remaining balance due in March 2025. The loan principal iswas voluntarily prepayable at 101% of the principal amount repaid if voluntarily prepaidprepayment occurred prior to October 2018 (subject to certain exceptions, including prepayments made with internally generated cash) and is voluntarily prepayable at any time thereafter without premium or penalty. The Senior Secured Term Loan may require mandatory principal prepayments of up to 75% of Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Credit Agreement) for any fiscal year (commencing withif the fiscal year endingCompany’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement and calculated at December 31, 2018).net of any unrestricted cash) is greater than 2.00:1.00. The mandatory principal prepayment requirement changes to (i) 50% of Excess Cash Flow if the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement and calculated as of December 31) is less than or equal to 2.00:1.00 and greater than 1.50:1.00, (ii) 25% of Excess Cash Flow if the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.50:1.00 and greater than 1.00:1.00, or (iii) zero if the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.00:1.00. If required, mandatory prepayments resulting from Excess Cash Flows are payable within 100 days after the end of each fiscal year. The calculation of mandatory prepayments would be reduced commensurately by the amount of previous voluntary prepayments. In certain circumstances, the Senior Secured Term Loan also requires that Excess Proceeds (as defined in the Credit Agreement) of $10.0 million or greater received from sales of Company assets be applied against the loan principal, unless such proceeds are reinvested within one year. The Senior Secured Term Loan also requires that any net insurance proceeds be applied against the loan principal, unless such proceeds are reinvested within one year.


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The Credit Agreement contains customary conditions of default and imposes certain restrictions on the Company’s activities, including its ability to incur liens, incur debt, make investments, engage in fundamental changes such as mergers and dissolutions, dispose of assets, enter into transactions with affiliates, and make certain restricted payments, such as cash dividends and share repurchases. Obligations under the Credit Agreement are secured on a pari passu basis by the same collateral securing the Senior Notes.
Since entering into the Credit Agreement, the Company has repaid $552.0$555.0 million of the original $950.0 million loan principal amount on the Senior Secured Term Loan in various installments. Oninstallments, including $546.0 million which was voluntarily prepaid. In September 18, 2017, the Company entered into an amendment to the Credit Agreement which permitted the Company to add an incremental revolving credit facility in addition to the Company’s ability to add one or more incremental term loan facilities under the Credit Agreement. The incremental revolving credit facility and/or incremental term loan facilities can be in an aggregate principal amount of up to $350.0 million plus additional amounts so long as the Company is below Total Leverage Ratio requirements as set forth in the Credit Agreement. The amendment also made available an additional restricted payment basket that permits additional repurchases, dividends or other distributions with respect to the Company’s Commoncommon and Preferred Stockpreferred stock in an aggregate amount up to $450.0 million so long as the Company’s Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement) would not exceedis at least 2.00:1.00 on a pro forma basis.
During the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company entered into the incremental revolving credit facility (the Revolver) for an aggregate commitment of $350.0 million for general corporate purposes. The Company paid aggregate debt issuance costs of $4.7 million. The Revolver matures in November 2020 and permits loans which bear interest at LIBOR plus 3.25%. The Revolver is subject to a 2.00:1.00 First LienTotal Leverage Ratio requirement (as defined in the Credit Agreement), modified to limit unrestricted cash netting to $800.0 million. Capacity under the Revolver may also be utilized for letters of credit which incur combined fees of 3.375% per annum. Unused capacity under the Revolver bears a commitment fee of 0.5% per annum. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Revolver hashad only been utilized for letters of credit amounting to $104.4$70.8 million. Such letters of credit were primarily in support of the Company’s reclamation obligations, as further described in Note 17.18. “Financial Instruments and Other Guarantees.” During the three and nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded interest expense and fees of $1.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively, and $4.3during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded interest expense and fees of $3.1 million and $3.1 million, respectively, related to the Revolver.
OnIn April 11, 2018, the Company entered into another amendment to the Credit Agreement which lowered the interest rate on the Senior Secured Term Loan to its current level of LIBOR plus 2.75% and eliminated an existing 1.0% LIBOR floor. The amendment also extendsextended the maturity of the Senior Secured Term Loan by three years to 2025 and eliminateseliminated previous capital expenditure restriction covenants on both the Senior Secured Term Loan and the Revolver. In connection with this amendment, the Company voluntarily repaid $46.0 million of principal on the Senior Secured Term Loan. The amendment was accounted for partially as a debt modification and partially as an extinguishment, the latter of which relating to certain lenders no longer participating in the Senior Secured Term Loan syndicate subsequent to the amendment. As a result, the Company charged a pro rata portion of debt issuance costs and original issue discount of $2.0 million to “Loss on early debt extinguishment” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the three months ended September 30, 2018. The Company also capitalized $1.0 million of deferred financing costs for fees paid to the remaining lenders and expensed $0.9 million of other fees associated with the amendment to “Interest expense” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the three months ended September 30, 2018.
Restricted Payments Under the Senior Notes and Credit Agreement
In addition to the $450.0 million restricted payment basket provided for under the September 18, 2017 amendment, the Credit Agreement provides a builder basket for additional restricted payments subject to a maximum Total Leverage Ratio of 2.00:1.00 (as defined in the Credit Agreement).


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

In addition to the $650.0 million restricted payment basket, plus an additional $150.0 million per calendar year, provided under the August 9, 2018 amendment, the Indenture provides a builder basket for restricted payments that is calculated based upon the Company’s Consolidated Net Income, and is subject to a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of at least 2.25:1.00 (as defined in the Indenture).
Further, under both the Indenture and Credit Agreement, additional restricted payments are permitted through a $50.0 million general basket and an annual aggregate $25.0 million basket which allows dividends and common stock repurchases. The payment of dividends and purchases of common stock under this latterannual aggregate $25.0 million basket are permitted so long as the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio would not exceed 1.25:1.00 on a pro forma basis (as defined in the Credit Agreement and Indenture).


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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

Copies of the Indenture documents are incorporated as ExhibitExhibits 4.2 and 4.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 3, 2017. A copy of the Credit Agreement is included as Exhibit 10.3 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the SEC on April 3, 2017, and copies of the subsequent amendments referenced above are included as Exhibits 10.1 to the Current Reports on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the SEC on September 18, 2017, November 20, 2017, December 19, 2017 and April 11, 2018, and as Exhibit 10.1 to thisthe Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.10-Q filed by the Company with the SEC on November 1, 2018.
Finance Lease Obligations
Refer to Note 11. “Leases” for additional information associated with the Company’s finance leases, which pertain to the financing of mining equipment used in operations.
(13)(14) Pension and Postretirement Benefit Costs
The components of net periodic pension and postretirement benefit costs, excluding the service cost for benefits earned, are included in “Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Net periodic pension cost (benefit) cost included the following components:
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Service cost for benefits earned$0.5
 $0.5
 $1.0
 $1.1
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation8.4
 7.9
 16.7
 15.7
Expected return on plan assets(7.8) (10.7) (15.6) (21.4)
Net periodic pension cost (benefit)$1.1
 $(2.3) $2.1
 $(4.6)
 Successor SuccessorPredecessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Service cost for benefits earned$0.6
 $0.5
 $1.7
 $1.1
$0.6
Interest cost on projected benefit obligation7.9
 9.4
 23.6
 18.7
9.7
Expected return on plan assets(10.7) (11.2) (32.1) (22.4)(11.0)
Amortization of prior service cost and net actuarial loss
 
 
 
6.4
Net periodic pension (benefit) cost$(2.2) $(1.3) $(6.8) $(2.6)$5.7

Annual contributions to the qualified plans are made in accordance with minimum funding standards and the Company’s agreement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Funding decisions also consider certain funded status thresholds defined by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (generally 80%). As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company’s qualified plans were expected to be at or above the Pension Protection Act thresholds. Minimum funding standards are legislated by ERISA and are modified by pension funding stabilization provisions included in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act of 2012, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014 and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Based upon minimum funding requirements, theThe Company is not required to make any contributions to its qualified pension plans in 2018;2019 based on minimum funding requirements; however, during the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company made a discretionary contributionscontribution of $20.0 million and $62.0 million, respectively, to one of its qualified pension plans.
Prior to emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company incurred pension costs for two non-qualified pension plans which it no longer sponsors.
Net periodic postretirement benefit cost included the following components:

 Successor SuccessorPredecessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Service cost for benefits earned$2.1
 $2.3
 $6.2
 $4.6
$2.3
Interest cost on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation7.0
 8.2
 21.2
 16.5
8.4
Amortization of prior service cost and net actuarial loss
 
 
 
3.2
Net periodic postretirement benefit cost$9.1
 $10.5
 $27.4
 $21.1
$13.9
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(14)Net periodic postretirement benefit cost included the following components:
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Service cost for benefits earned$1.2
 $2.1
 $2.4
 $4.1
Interest cost on accumulated postretirement benefit obligation6.3
 7.1
 12.6
 14.2
Expected return on plan assets(0.1) 
 (0.2) 
Amortization of prior service credit(2.2) 
 (4.4) 
Net periodic postretirement benefit cost$5.2
 $9.2
 $10.4
 $18.3

In October 2018, the Company amended its postretirement health care benefit plan which reduced its accumulated postretirement benefit obligation, as further described in Note 17. “Postretirement Health Care and Life Insurance Benefits” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The reduction in liability has been recorded with an offsetting balance in “Accumulated other comprehensive income,” net of a deferred tax provision, and is being amortized to earnings over an average remaining service period to full eligibility for participating employees.
In 2018, the Company established a Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association (VEBA) trust to pre-fund a portion of benefits for non-represented retirees. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the Company made a pre-funding contribution of $17.0 million to the VEBA.
(15) Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
The following table sets forth the after-tax components of accumulated other comprehensive income and changes thereto recorded during the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018:2019:
 
Foreign Currency Translation
Adjustment
 
Prior Service
Credit (Cost) Associated
with
Postretirement
Plans
 Total Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
 (Dollars in millions)
December 31, 2018$(4.5) $44.6
 $40.1
Reclassification from other comprehensive income to earnings
 (4.4) (4.4)
Current period change(0.4) 
 (0.4)
June 30, 2019$(4.9) $40.2
 $35.3

  
Foreign Currency Translation
Adjustment
 Total Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
  (Dollars in millions)
 December 31, 2017$1.4
 $1.4
 Current period change(4.5) (4.5)
 September 30, 2018$(3.1) $(3.1)
The components of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) related to postretirement plansPostretirement health care and workers’ compensation obligations and cash flow hedges related to Predecessor periods were eliminated in accordance with fresh start reporting as described in Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017. The following table provides additional information regarding itemslife insurance benefits reclassified out of “Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)”income” into earnings of $2.2 millionand $4.4 million during the periodthree and six months ended June 30, 2019, respectively, are presented below:as “Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost” in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
  
Amount reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (1)
  
  Predecessor  
Details about accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) components

 January 1 through April 1, 2017 Affected line item in the unaudited condensed consolidated statement of operations
  (Dollars in millions)  
Net actuarial loss associated with postretirement plans and workers’ compensation obligations:    
Postretirement health care and life insurance benefits $(5.5) Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
Defined benefit pension plans (6.3) Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
Insignificant items 2.7
  
  (9.1) Total before income taxes
  3.3
 Income tax benefit
  $(5.8) Total after income taxes
     
Prior service credit associated with postretirement plans:    
Postretirement health care and life insurance benefits $2.3
 Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
Defined benefit pension plans (0.1) Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost
  2.2
 Total before income taxes
  (0.8) Income tax provision
  $1.4
 Total after income taxes
     
Cash flow hedges:    
Foreign currency cash flow hedge contracts $(16.6) Operating costs and expenses
Fuel and explosives commodity swaps (11.0) Operating costs and expenses
Insignificant items (0.1)  
  (27.7) Total before income taxes
  9.1
 Income tax benefit
  $(18.6) Total after income taxes
(1)
Presented as gains (losses) in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.


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(16) Other Events
PRB Colorado Joint Venture with Arch
On June 18, 2019, the Company entered into a definitive implementation agreement (the Implementation Agreement) with Arch, to establish a joint venture that will combine the respective Powder River Basin and Colorado mining operations of Peabody and Arch. Pursuant to the terms of the Implementation Agreement, Peabody will hold a 66.5% economic interest in the joint venture and Arch will hold a 33.5% economic interest. The Company expects to proportionally consolidate the entity based upon its economic interest. Governance of the joint venture will be overseen by the joint venture’s board of managers, which will be comprised of Peabody and Arch representatives with voting powers proportionate with the companies’ economic interests. Peabody will manage the operations of the joint venture, subject to the supervision of the joint venture’s board of managers.


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(15) Other Events
North Goonyella
The Company’s North Goonyella Mine experienced elevated gas levels beginning in September 2018, followed by a fire in a portionFormation of the mine. The underground mine and portions of the surface area at North Goonyella remain restricted to access through exclusion zones while work continues to seal the affected area. The Queensland Mines Inspectorate has announced an investigation into the events related to North Goonyella. The Company will cooperate fully with the investigation.
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, the Company recorded $9.0 million in costs related to the events at North Goonyella and a provision of $49.3 million for expected equipment losses. This provision includes $40.2 million for the estimated cost to replace leased equipment and $9.1 million related to Company-owned equipment. This provision represents the best estimate of potential loss based on the assessments made to date. In the event that no future mining occurs at North Goonyella, the Company may record additional charges for the remaining carrying value of the North Goonyella Mine and additional leased equipment of approximately $284 million and $61 million, respectively. Incremental exposures include take-or-pay obligations and other costs associated with idling or closing the mine. The Companyjoint venture is pursuing an insurance claim against potentially applicable insurance policies with combined property damage and business interruption loss limits of $125 million above a $50 million deductible.
Acquisitions
On September 20, 2018, Peabody entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement (Purchase Agreement) to buy the Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine, preparation plant and supporting assets located in Alabama (Shoal Creek Mine) from Drummond Company, Inc. (Drummond) for an aggregate purchase price of $400 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The Purchase Agreement excludes legacy liabilitiesclosing conditions, including the termination or expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, the receipt of certain other than reclamation and the Company will not be responsible for other liabilities arising out of or relating to the operation of Shoal Creek Mine prior to closing, including with respect to employee benefit plans and post-employment benefits. The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2018, subject torequired regulatory approvals and certain conditions precedent, including negotiationthe absence of a new collective bargaining agreement withinjunctions or other legal restraints preventing the union-represented workforce that eliminates participation information of the multi-employer pension planjoint venture. The existing outstanding indebtedness of both Peabody and replaces it with a 401(k) retirement plan. Peabody intends to financeArch limits significant transactions such as the acquisition with available cash on hand.
Joint Venture
In 2014, the Company agreed to establish an unincorporated joint venture, project with Glencore plc (Glencore), in which the Company holds a 50% interest, to combine the existing operations of the Company’s Wambo Open-Cut Mine in Australia with the adjacent coal reserves of Glencore’s United Mine. The Company expects the project to result in several operational synergies, including improved mining productivity, lower per-unit operating costs and an extended mine life. The joint ventureaccordingly, formation is expected to be formed during the first half of 2019, subject to substantive contingencies, including the requisite regulatoryPeabody and permitting approvals.Arch amending such outstanding indebtedness under agreeable terms. At such time as control over the existing operations is exchanged, the Company will account for its interest in the combined operations at fair value.value, which could result in a gain or loss.
North Goonyella
The Company’s North Goonyella Mine in Queensland, Australia experienced a fire in a portion of the mine during September 2018. Mining operations have been suspended since September 2018. No mine personnel were physically harmed by the September 2018 events. On November 13, 2018, the Queensland Mine Inspectorate (QMI) initiated an investigation into the events that occurred at the mine to determine the cause of the event, assess the response to it and make recommendations to reduce the possibility of future incidents and improve response. The Company is currently complying with information requests from the QMI.
During the first quarter of 2019, the Company completed segmenting of the mine into multiple zones to facilitate a phased re-ventilation and re-entry of the mine. The Company commenced re-ventilation of the first zone of the mine during the second quarter of 2019 and subsequently re-entered the area in July 2019.  Following these activities, additional information about the regulatory process and physical condition of the mine continued to emerge. As a result, the Company is assessing various alternatives for accessing the coal reserves.
During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company recorded $58.0 million in containment and idling costs related to the events at North Goonyella Mine and a provision of $66.4 million for expected equipment losses. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the Company recorded an additional $28.4 million and $65.3 million, respectively, in containment and idling costs, and an additional provision of $24.7 million related to equipment losses was recorded during the six months ended June 30, 2019 as more information became available. The combined provision includes $50.7 million for the estimated cost to replace leased equipment, $23.2 million related to the cost of Company-owned equipment and $17.2 million of other charges, which represents the best estimate of potential loss based on the assessments made to date. In the event that no future mining occurs at the North Goonyella Mine, the Company may record additional charges for the remaining carrying value of the North Goonyella Mine and additional leased equipment of approximately $290 million and $5 million, respectively. Such carrying value includes approximately $30 million of longwall panel development that may be unrecoverable. Incremental exposures above the aforementioned include take-or-pay obligations and other costs associated with idling or closing the mine.
In March 2019, the Company entered into an insurance claim settlement agreement with its insurers and various re-insurers under a combined property damage and business interruption policy and recorded a $125 million insurance recovery, the maximum amount available under the policy above a $50 million deductible. The Company has collected the full amount of the recovery.
On April 30, 2019, Peabody (Bowen) Pty Ltd entered into an option exercise and release agreement with Yancoal Technology Development Pty Ltd pursuant to which Peabody (Bowen) Pty Ltd exercised an option to acquire from Yancoal Technology Development Pty Ltd the longwall mining equipment used under license at the North Goonyella Mine for $54.2 million, which was consistent with the Company’s provision for equipment losses for the related impaired assets at June 30, 2019.
Divestitures
In June 2018, Peabody entered into an agreement to sell approximately 23 million tonnes of metallurgical coal resources adjacent to its Millennium Mine to Stanmore Coal Limited (Stanmore) for approximately $22 million. The sale was completed in July 2018 and2018. During the Company recorded a gain of $20.5 million which is included within “Net gain on disposals” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018. As of September 30, 2018,2019, Stanmore has paid Peabody approximately $7$10 million, andwhich brought the remaining receivable balance to approximately $4 million as of June 30, 2019. The remaining receivable balance, which will bewas paid over the subsequent ten months,in July 2019, is included in “Accounts receivable, net” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet.


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On February 6, 2018, the Company sold its 50% interest in the Red Mountain Joint Venture (RMJV) with BHP Billiton Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd (BMC) for $20.0 million and recorded a gain of $7.1 million, which is included within “Net gain(gain) loss on disposals” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018. RMJV operated the coal handling and preparation plant utilized by the Company’s Millennium Mine. BMC assumed the reclamation obligations and other commitments associated with the assets of RMJV. The Millennium Mine will have continued usage of the coal handling and preparation plant and the associated rail loading facility until the end of 2019 via a coal washing take-or-pay agreement with BMC.


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In January 2018, Peabody entered into an agreement to sell its share in certain surplus land assets in Queensland’s Bowen Basin to Pembroke Resources South Pty Ltd for approximately $37 million Australian dollars, net of transaction costs. The necessary approval of the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board to complete the transaction was received on March 29, 2018, satisfying all the conditions precedent to the sale, and the Company recorded a gain of $20.6 million, which is included within “Net gain(gain) loss on disposals” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018.
United Wambo Joint Venture with Glencore
In 2014, the Company agreed to establish an unincorporated joint venture project with Glencore plc (Glencore), in which the Company holds a 50% interest, to combine the existing operations of the Company’s Wambo Open-Cut Mine in Australia with the adjacent coal reserves of Glencore’s United Mine. Glencore will manage the operations of the joint venture. The Company had a 37.5% interestexpects the project to result in Dominion Terminal Associates, a partnership that operates a coal export terminal in Newport News, Virginia that exports both metallurgicalseveral operational synergies, including improved mining productivity, lower per-unit operating costs and thermal coal primarilyan extended mine life. The joint venture is expected to Europebe formed during 2019, subject to substantive contingencies for the requisite regulatory and Brazil. On March 31, 2017,permitting approvals. At such time as control over the existing operations is exchanged, the Company completed a sale ofwill account for its interest in Dominion Terminal Associates to Contura Terminal, LLC and Ashland Terminal, Inc., both ofthe combined operations at fair value, which are partners ofcould result in a gain or loss.
Other At-Risk Assets
Other than the Dominion Terminal Associates. The Company collected $20.5 million in proceeds and recorded $19.7 million of gain on the sale, which was classified in “Net gain on disposals” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the period January 1 through April 1, 2017.
In November 2016,provision for North Goonyella equipment losses described above, the Company entered into a definitive share sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for the sale of all of the equity interest in Metropolitan Collieries Pty Ltd, the entity that owns the Metropolitan Mine in New South Wales, Australia and the associated interest in the Port Kembla Coal Terminal, to South32 Limited (South32). The SPA provided for a cash purchase price of $200 million and certain contingent consideration, subject to a customary working capital adjustment. South32 terminated the agreement in April 2017 after it was unable to obtain necessary approvals from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission within the timeframe required under the SPA. As a result of the termination, the Company retained an earnest deposit posted by South32 which was recorded in “Other revenues” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the period April 2 through September 30, 2017.
In November 2015, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell its New Mexico and Colorado assets to Bowie Resource Partners, LLC (Bowie) in exchange for cash proceeds of $358 million and the assumption of certain liabilities. Bowie agreed to pay the Company a termination fee of $20 million (Termination Fee) in the event the Company terminated the agreement because Bowie failed to obtain financing and close the transaction. On April 12, 2016, Peabody terminated the agreement and demanded payment of the Termination Fee. Following a favorable judgment by the Bankruptcy Court, the Company collected the Termination Fee from Bowie. The Termination Fee is included in “Other revenues” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the period April 2 through September 30, 2017.
Asset Impairment
As described in Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company adjusted the book values of its property, plant, equipment and mine development assets to their respective estimated fair values at the time of fresh start reporting.
Nono asset impairment charges were recognized during the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, three months ended September 30, 20172019 or the period April 2 through September 30, 2017. During the period January 1 through April 1, 2017,2018. However, the Company recognized assethas identified certain assets with an aggregate carrying value of $248.4 million at June 30, 2019 in its Midwestern U.S. and Western U.S. Mining Segments whose recoverability is most sensitive to coal pricing, cost pressures and customer concentration risk. The Company conducted a review of those assets for recoverability as of June 30, 2019 and determined that no further impairment charges were necessary as of $30.5 million related to terminated coal lease contracts in the Midwestern United States.that date.
(16)(17) Earnings per Share (EPS)
Basic EPS is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted EPS is computed based on the weighted average number of shares of common stock plus the effect of dilutive potential common shares outstanding. As such, the Company includes the share-based compensation awards in its potentially dilutive securities. Dilutive securities are not included in the computation of loss per share when a company reports a net loss from continuing operations as the impact would be anti-dilutive.
During the periods which included the Company’s convertible preferred stock, basic and diluted EPS arewere computed using the two-class method, which is an earnings allocation that determines EPS for each class of common stock and participating securities according to dividends declared and participation rights in undistributed earnings. The Company’s convertible preferred stock was considered a participating security because holders were entitled to receive dividends on an if-converted basis. The Predecessor Company’s restricted stock awards were considered participating securities because holders were entitled to receive non-forfeitable dividends during the vesting term. Diluted EPS includes securities that could potentially dilute basic EPS during a reporting period and assumes that participating securities are not executed or converted. As such, the Company includes the share-based compensation awards in its potentially dilutive securities. The calculation of diluted EPS for the Predecessor Company also considered the impact of its Convertible Junior Subordinated Debentures due December 2066 (the Debentures). Dilutive securities are not included in the computation of loss per share when a company reports a net loss from continuing operations as the impact would be anti-dilutive.


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For all but the performance units, the potentially dilutive impact of the Company’s share-based compensation awards is determined using the treasury stock method. Under the treasury stock method, awards are treated as if they had been exercised with any proceeds used to repurchase common stock at the average market price during the period. Any incremental difference between the assumed number of shares issued and purchased is included in the diluted share computation. For the performance units, their contingent features result in an assessment for any potentially dilutive common stock by using the end of the reporting period as if it were the end of the contingency period for all units granted.
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The computation of diluted EPS excluded aggregate share-based compensation awards of less than 0.1approximately 0.7 million for both the three and six months ended June 30, 2019. No aggregate share-based compensation awards were excluded from the computation of diluted EPS for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, and 2017, the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017, respectively, and approximately 0.2 million for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017, because to do so would have been anti-dilutive for those periods. Because the potential dilutive impact of such share-based compensation awards is calculated under the treasury stock method, anti-dilution generally occurs when the exercise prices or unrecognized compensation cost per share of such awards are higher than the Company’s average stock price during the applicable period.


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The following illustrates the earnings allocation method utilized in the calculation of basic and diluted EPS.
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (In millions, except per share data)
EPS numerator:       
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$42.9
 $120.0
 $176.2
 $328.3
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 
 
 102.5
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests2.4
 2.7
 8.1
 0.6
Income from continuing operations attributable to common stockholders, before allocation of earnings to participating securities40.5
 117.3
 168.1
 225.2
Less: Earnings allocated to participating securities
 
 
 6.4
Income from continuing operations attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities (1)
40.5
 117.3
 168.1
 218.8
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(3.4) (3.6) (6.8) (4.9)
Less: Loss from discontinued operations allocated to participating securities
 
 
 (0.1)
Loss from discontinued operations attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities(3.4) (3.6) (6.8) (4.8)
Net income attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities (1)
$37.1
 $113.7
 $161.3
 $214.0
        
EPS denominator:       
Weighted average shares outstanding — basic107.0
 124.5
 107.7
 122.7
Impact of dilutive securities1.1
 1.5
 1.6
 1.9
Weighted average shares outstanding — diluted (2)
108.1
 126.0
 109.3
 124.6
        
Basic EPS attributable to common stockholders:       
Income from continuing operations$0.38
 $0.94
 $1.56
 $1.78
Loss from discontinued operations(0.03) (0.03) (0.06) (0.04)
Net income attributable to common stockholders$0.35
 $0.91
 $1.50
 $1.74
        
Diluted EPS attributable to common stockholders:       
Income from continuing operations$0.37
 $0.93
 $1.54
 $1.76
Loss from discontinued operations(0.03) (0.03) (0.06) (0.04)
Net income attributable to common stockholders$0.34
 $0.90
 $1.48
 $1.72
 Successor SuccessorPredecessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (In millions, except per share data)
EPS numerator:        
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes$83.9
 $233.7
 $412.2
 $335.1
$(195.5)
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 23.5
 102.5
 138.6

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests8.3
 5.1
 8.9
 8.9
4.8
Income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to common stockholders, before allocation of earnings to participating securities75.6
 205.1
 300.8
 187.6
(200.3)
Less: Earnings allocated to participating securities
 51.6
 5.7
 50.6

Income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities (1)
75.6
 153.5
 295.1
 137.0
(200.3)
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(4.1) (3.7) (9.0) (6.4)(16.2)
Less: Loss from discontinued operations allocated to participating securities
 (0.9) (0.2) (1.7)
Loss from discontinued operations attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities(4.1) (2.8) (8.8) (4.7)(16.2)
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, after allocation of earnings to participating securities (1)
$71.5
 $150.7
 $286.3
 $132.3
$(216.5)
         
EPS denominator:        
Weighted average shares outstanding — basic118.6
 101.6
 121.3
 99.2
18.3
Impact of dilutive securities1.7
 1.5
 1.8
 1.0

Weighted average shares outstanding — diluted (2)
120.3
 103.1
 123.1
 100.2
18.3
         
Basic EPS attributable to common stockholders:        
Income (loss) from continuing operations$0.64
 $1.51
 $2.43
 $1.38
$(10.93)
Loss from discontinued operations(0.04) (0.03) (0.07) (0.05)(0.88)
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$0.60
 $1.48
 $2.36
 $1.33
$(11.81)
         
Diluted EPS attributable to common stockholders:        
Income (loss) from continuing operations$0.63
 $1.49
 $2.40
 $1.37
$(10.93)
Loss from discontinued operations(0.04) (0.02) (0.07) (0.05)(0.88)
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$0.59
 $1.47
 $2.33
 $1.32
$(11.81)

(1) 
There was no reallocation adjustment for participating securities to arrive at the numerator to calculate diluted EPS for the three months ended September 30, 2018, due to the conversion of all remaining shares of Preferred Stock as of January 31, 2018. The reallocation adjustment for participating securities to arrive at the numerator to calculate diluted EPS was $0.6 million, $0.1 million and $0.4 million for the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017, the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017, respectively.2018.
(2) 
The two-class method assumes that participating securities are not exercised or converted. As such, weighted average diluted shares outstanding excluded 34.2 million shares, 2.8 million shares and 36.74.2 million shares related to the participating securities for the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2017, the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017, respectively.2018.


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In accordance with the Plan, each share of the Predecessor Company’s common stock outstanding prior to the Effective Date, including all options and warrants to purchase such stock, were extinguished, canceled and discharged, and each such share, option or warrant has no further force or effect after the Effective Date. Furthermore, all of the Predecessor Company’s equity award agreements under prior incentive plans, and the equity awards granted pursuant thereto, were extinguished, canceled and discharged and have no further force or effect after the Effective Date.
As of January 31, 2018, all 30.0 million shares of Preferred Stockconvertible preferred stock issued upon the Effective DateCompany’s emergence from the Chapter 11 reorganization had been converted into 59.3 million shares of common stock, which is inclusive of the shares that had been issued for the payable in-kind preferred stock dividends.


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(18) Financial Instruments and Other Guarantees
In the normal course of business, the Company is a party to various guarantees and financial instruments that carry off-balance-sheet risk and are not reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, such instruments included $1,637.3$1,572.0 million of surety bonds and bank guarantees and $252.2$202.2 million of letters of credit. Such financial instruments provide support for the Company’s reclamation bonding requirements, lease obligations, insurance policies and various other performance guarantees. The Company periodically evaluates the instruments for on-balance-sheet treatment based on the amount of exposure under the instrument and the likelihood of required performance. The Company does not expect any material losses to result from these guarantees or off-balance-sheet instruments in excess of liabilities provided for in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.
The Company is required to provide various forms of financial assurance in support of its mining reclamation obligations in the jurisdictions in which it operates. Such requirements are typically established by statute or under mining permits. Historically, such assurances have taken the form of third-party instruments such as surety bonds, bank guarantees, letters of credit, collateral held in restricted accounts and self-bonding arrangements in the U.S. In connection with its emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases, the Company elected to utilize primarily a portfolio of surety bonds to support its U.S. obligations.
At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company’s asset retirementmining reclamation obligations of $703.0$762.8 million were supported by surety bonds of $1,370.9$1,359.9 million, as well as letters of credit issued under the Company’s receivables securitization program and Revolver amounting to $152.7$110.5 million.
Accounts Receivable Securitization
As described in Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, theThe Company entered into the Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, as amended, dated as of April 3, 2017 (the Receivables Purchase Agreement) to extend the Company’s receivables securitization facility previously in place and expand that facility to include certain receivables from the Company’s Australian operations. The term of the receivables securitization program (Securitization Program) ends on April 3, 2020,is subject to certain liquidity requirements and other customary events of default set forth in the Receivables Purchase Agreement. The Securitization Program provides for up to $250.0 million in funding accounted for as a secured borrowing, limited to the availability of eligible receivables, and may be secured by a combination of collateral and the trade receivables underlying the program, from time to time. Funding capacity under the Securitization Program may also be utilized for letters of credit in support of other obligations. During 2017,2019, the Company entered into amendmentsan amendment to the Securitization Program to include the receivables of additional Australian operations, reduce the restrictions on the availability of certain eligible receivables, add an additional servicerextend its term through April 1, 2022 and reduce program fees.
Under the terms of the Securitization Program, the Company contributes the trade receivables of its participating subsidiaries on a revolving basis to P&L Receivables, its wholly-owned, bankruptcy-remote subsidiary, which then sells the receivables to unaffiliated banks. P&L Receivables retains the ability to repurchase the receivables in certain circumstances. The assets and liabilities of P&L Receivables are consolidated with Peabody, and the Securitization Program is treated as a secured borrowing for accounting purposes, but the assets of P&L Receivables will be used first to satisfy the creditors of P&L Receivables, not Peabody’s creditors. The borrowings under the Securitization Program remain outstanding throughout the term of the agreement, subject to the Company maintaining sufficient eligible receivables, by continuing to contribute trade receivables to P&L Receivables, unless an event of default occurs.


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At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company had no outstanding borrowings and $146.3$129.9 million of letters of credit issued under the Securitization Program. The letters of credit were primarily in support of portions of the Company’s obligations for reclamation, workers’ compensation and postretirement benefits. The Company had no collateral requirement under the Securitization Program at SeptemberJune 30, 2018 and2019 or December 31, 2017.2018. The Company incurred fees associated with the Securitization Program of $1.7$1.0 million and $1.9 million during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018, $5.5respectively, and $2.6 million and $3.8 million during the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018, and $3.9 million during the period April 2 through September 30, 2017,respectively, which have been recorded as interest expense in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. As it relates to the former receivables securitization facility in place prior to the Effective Date, the Company incurred interest expense of $2.0 million during the period January 1 through April 1, 2017.
Collateral Arrangements and Restricted Cash
TheFrom time to time, the Company remitsis required to remit cash to certain regulatory authorities and other third parties as collateral for financial assurances associated with a variety of long-term obligations and commitments surrounding the mining, reclamation and shipping of its production. The Company had $323.1During the six months ended June 30, 2018, $363.2 million held by third parties related toof such obligations at December 31, 2017. All such collateral and other restricted cash was returned to the Company, during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, largely as the result of replacing collateral balances with third-party surety bonding in Australia.
The Company also had $40.1 million of restricted cash at December 31, 2017 related to a class of pending unsecured creditors’ claims in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases. The restriction was released on March 22, 2018 after the Debtors satisfied all such claims.
Other
The Company is the lessee under numerous equipment and property leases. It is common in such commercial lease transactions for the Company, as the lessee, to agree to indemnify the lessor for the value of the property or equipment leased, should the property be damaged or lost during the course of the Company’s operations. The Company expects that losses with respect to leased property, if any, may be covered by insurance (subject to deductibles). The Company and certain of its subsidiaries have guaranteed other subsidiaries’ performance under various lease obligations. Aside from indemnification of the lessor for the value of the property leased, the Company’s maximum potential obligations under its leases are equal to the respective future minimum lease payments, and the Company assumes that no amounts could be recovered from third parties. In this regard, the Company made a $40.2 million provision during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 for loss of leased equipment at North Goonyella as described in Note 15. “Other Events.”
The Company has provided financial guarantees under certain long-term debt agreements entered into by its subsidiaries and substantially all of the Company’s U.S. subsidiaries provide financial guarantees under long-term debt agreements entered into by the Company. The maximum amounts payable under the Company’s debt agreements are equal to the respective principal and interest payments.


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(19) Commitments and Contingencies
Commitments
Unconditional Purchase Obligations
As of SeptemberJune 30, 20182019, purchase commitments for capital expenditures were $158.5$130.8 million, all of which is obligated within the next three years, with $146.6$123.5 million obligated within the next 12 months.
There were no other material changes to the Company’s commitments from the information provided in Note 25.26. “Commitments and Contingencies” to the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20172018.
Contingencies
From time to time, the Company or its subsidiaries are involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business or related to indemnities or historical operations. The Company believes it has recorded adequate reserves for these liabilities. The Company discusses its significant legal proceedings below, including ongoing proceedings and those that impacted the Company’s results of operations for the periods presented.


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Litigation Relating to the Chapter 11 CasesBankruptcy
Ad Hoc Committee. A group of creditors (the Ad Hoc Committee) that held certain interests in the Company's prepetition indebtedness appealed the Bankruptcy Court'sCourt’s order confirming the Plan.Company’s plan of reorganization (the Plan). On December 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the District Court) entered an order dismissing the Ad Hoc Committee's appeal, and, in the alternative, affirming the order confirming the Plan. On January 26, 2018, the Ad Hoc Committee appealed the District Court's order to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (the Eighth Circuit). In its appeal, the Ad Hoc Committee does not ask the Eighth Circuit to reverse the order confirming the Plan. Instead, the Ad Hoc Committee asks the Eighth Circuit to award the Ad Hoc Committee members either unspecified damages or the right to buy an unspecified amount of Company stock at a discount. Oral argument on the appeal was held April 16, 2019, and the Eighth Circuit panel reserved decision and took the case under submission. The Company does not believe the appeal is meritorious and will vigorously defend it.against the Ad Hoc Committee’s claims.
Litigation Relating to Continuing Operations
Peabody Monto Coal Pty Ltd, Monto Coal 2 Pty Ltd and Peabody Energy Australia PCI Pty Ltd. Ltd (PEA-PCI). In October 2007, a claim was made against Peabody Monto Coal Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and Monto Coal 2 Pty Ltd, wholly-owned subsidiariesan equity accounted investee of Macarthur Coal Limited (Macarthur)., now known as PEA-PCI. The claim, made by the minority interest holders in the joint venture, alleged that the Macarthur companies breached certain agreements by failing to develop a mine project. The claim was amended to assert that Macarthur induced the alleged breach of the Monto Coal Joint Venture Agreement. The Company acquired Macarthur and its subsidiaries in 2011. These claims, which are pending before the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia, seek damages of up to $1.8$1.1 billion Australian dollars, plus interest and costs.
The Company asserts that the Macarthur companies were never under an obligation to develop the mine project because the project was not economically viable. The Company disputes all of the claims brought by the plaintiffs and is vigorously defending its position. BasedThe trial commenced on the Company’s evaluationApril 8, 2019 and is scheduled to finish in October 2019.


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Berenergy Corporation. The Company has been in a legal dispute with Berenergy Corporation (Berenergy) regarding Berenergy’s access to certain of its underground oil deposits beneath the Company’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine and contiguous undisturbed areas. Berenergy contends the Company should not be able to mine the area where Berenergy and Peabody hold conflicting leases. Berenergy also contends that if the Company does mine the area, then the Company should be liable to Berenergy for the cost of certain special procedures and equipment required to access the secondary deposits remotely from outside the Company’s mine area, which has been estimated at $13.1 million by Berenergy. The Company believes that it should be allowed to mine the area conflicting with Berenergy’s leases so long as it pays for the reasonable value of the oil reserves under Berenergy’s wells that sit on its four leases, which the Company estimates to be approximately $1.0 million. This dispute currently has proceedings before the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA), the Wyoming Supreme Court and a federal court in Wyoming. The Company will vigorously defend its position in all three proceedings, as it believes Berenergy’s claims are without merit and that the likelihood of a material loss resulting from the matter is remote.PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
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County of San Mateo, County of Marin, City of Imperial Beach. The Company was named as a defendant, along with numerous other companies, in three nearly identical lawsuits.lawsuits brought by municipalities in California. The lawsuits seek to hold a wide variety of companies that produce fossil fuels liable for the alleged impacts of the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to those fuels. The lawsuits primarily assert that the companies’ products have caused a sea level rise that is damaging the plaintiffs. The complaints specifically alleged that the defendants’ activities from 1965 to 2015 caused such damage. The Company filed a motion to enforce the Confirmation Order in the Bankruptcy CourtPlan because the Confirmation Orderit enjoins claims that arose before the effective date of the Plan. The motion to enforce was granted on October 24, 2017, and the Bankruptcy Court ordered the plaintiffs to dismiss their lawsuits against the Company. On November 26, 2017, the plaintiffs appealed the Bankruptcy Court’s October 24, 2017 order to the District Court. On November 28, 2017, plaintiffs sought a stay pending appeal from the Bankruptcy Court, which was denied on December 8, 2017. On December 19, 2017, the plaintiffs moved the District Court for a stay pending appeal. The District Court denied the stay request on September 20, 2018, and the plaintiffs have appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals from the Eighth Circuit. The parties are waiting for a decision onOn March 29, 2019, the merits ofDistrict Court affirmed the appeal and onBankruptcy Court ruling enjoining the appeal ofplaintiffs from proceeding with their lawsuits against the stay.Company. That ruling likewise is being appealed. In the underlying cases pending in California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted plaintiffs’ motion for remand and decided the cases should be heard in state court. The defendants appealed the order granting remand to the Ninth Circuit and sought a stay of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decision pending completion of the Ninth Circuit appeal. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted defendants’ request for a stay pending completion of the Ninth Circuit appeal. The plaintiffs filed a motion to dismiss part of the appeal. The parties are now litigating at the Ninth Circuit whether a state or federal court should hear these lawsuits. Regardless of whether state court or federal court is the venue, the Company believes the lawsuits against it should be dismissed under enforcement of the Confirmation Order.Plan. The Company does not believe the lawsuits are meritorious and, if the lawsuits are not dismissed, the Company intends to vigorously defend them.


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10th Circuit U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Appeal. On September 15, 2017, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the District Court of Wyoming’s decision upholding BLM’s approval of four coal leases in the Powder River Basin. Two of the four leases relate to the Company’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Wyoming. There is no immediate impact on the Company’s leases as the Court of Appeals did not vacate the leases as part of its ruling. Rather, the Court of Appeals remanded the case back to the District Court of Wyoming with directions to order BLM to revise its environmental analysis. On November 27, 2017, the District Court of Wyoming ordered BLM to revise its environmental analysis. BLM published its draft environmental analysis on July 30, 2018. The Company, along with the National Mining Association, the Wyoming Mining Association and Arch, Coal, Inc., submitted comments on the draft environmental analysis by the comment deadline of October 4, 2018. The Company cannot predict when theBLM completed its final environmental analysis, will be completed by BLM.prepared a finding of no significant impact, and re-affirmed its decision to issue the leases. The Company’s operations will continue in the normal course during this period since the decision has no impact on mining at this time. The Company currently believes that its operations are unlikely to be materially impacted by this case, but the timing and magnitude of any impact on the Company’s future operations is not certain.
Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD). On May 1, 2018, the Company, along with the Hopi Tribe and the UMWA, filed a lawsuit against the CAWCD. CAWCD operates, on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Central Arizona Project (CAP), an aqueduct system that brings water from the Colorado River to three counties in Arizona. CAWCD historically obtained most of CAP’s power requirements from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), which is served by a single Peabody mine. NGS is owned by several private companies and one governmental entity. The non-governmental owners of NGS issued a statement that they do not currently intend to be the operators of the plant beyond December 2019. Recently, CAWCD made the decision to obtain a portion of CAP’s power requirements from sources other than NGS for 2020 and thereafter. The lawsuit seeks a determination that federal law requires CAWCD to obtain CAP’s power requirements from NGS.
Other
At times the Company becomes a party to other disputes, including those related to contract miner performance, claims, lawsuits, arbitration proceedings, regulatory investigations and administrative procedures in the ordinary course of business in the U.S., Australia and other countries where the Company does business. Based on current information, the Company believes that such other pending or threatened proceedings are likely to be resolved without a material adverse effect on its financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
(19)(20) Segment Information
The Company reports its results of operations through the following reportable segments: Seaborne Thermal Mining, Seaborne Metallurgical Mining, Powder River Basin Mining, Midwestern U.S. Mining, Western U.S. Mining Australian Metallurgical Mining, Australian Thermal Mining, Trading and Brokerage and Corporate and Other. The Company’s chief operating decision maker uses Adjusted EBITDA as the primary metric to measure the segments’ operating performance.
Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as income (loss) from continuing operations before deducting net interest expense, income taxes, asset retirement obligation expenses, depreciation, depletion and amortization and reorganization items, net. Adjusted EBITDA is also adjusted for the discrete items that management excluded in analyzing the segments’ operating performance, as displayed in the reconciliation below. Management believes non-GAAP performance measures are used by investors to measure the Company’s operating performance and lenders to measure the Company’s ability to incur and service debt. Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to serve as an alternative to U.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.




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Reportable segment results were as follows:
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Revenues:       
Seaborne Thermal Mining$220.2
 $267.4
 $471.2
 $468.8
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining290.9
 417.5
 615.4
 883.7
Powder River Basin Mining282.6
 321.5
 569.9
 710.8
Midwestern U.S. Mining167.5
 197.5
 346.6
 399.2
Western U.S. Mining142.1
 139.6
 297.8
 283.3
Corporate and Other45.7
 (34.1) 98.7
 26.3
Total$1,149.0
 $1,309.4
 $2,399.6
 $2,772.1
        
Adjusted EBITDA:       
Seaborne Thermal Mining$74.4
 $107.6
 $169.1
 $169.2
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining57.4
 158.5
 143.2
 324.9
Powder River Basin Mining40.2
 62.0
 76.6
 136.5
Midwestern U.S. Mining30.7
 42.0
 64.0
 73.2
Western U.S. Mining52.4
 33.9
 95.0
 65.9
Corporate and Other (1)
(27.1) (34.4) (66.0) (36.2)
Total$228.0
 $369.6
 $481.9
 $733.5
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor
  Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  (Dollars in millions)
Revenues:         
Powder River Basin Mining $373.7
 $420.9
 $1,084.5
 $786.3
$394.3
Midwestern U.S. Mining 208.5
 207.7
 607.7
 402.6
193.2
Western U.S. Mining 156.1
 155.7
 439.4
 281.1
149.7
Australian Metallurgical Mining 370.3
 415.9
 1,254.0
 703.7
328.9
Australian Thermal Mining 305.1
 265.8
 773.9
 505.0
224.8
Trading and Brokerage 22.6
 19.4
 52.7
 24.6
15.0
Corporate and Other (23.7) (8.2) (27.5) 32.2
20.3
Total $1,412.6
 $1,477.2
 $4,184.7
 $2,735.5
$1,326.2
          
Adjusted EBITDA:         
Powder River Basin Mining $88.2
 $112.7
 $224.7
 $197.5
$91.7
Midwestern U.S. Mining 38.7
 49.5
 111.9
 96.0
50.0
Western U.S. Mining 28.5
 34.5
 94.4
 79.4
50.0
Australian Metallurgical Mining 90.7
 143.1
 415.6
 215.0
109.6
Australian Thermal Mining 145.3
 97.8
 314.5
 203.7
75.6
Trading and Brokerage (2.4) 2.7
 1.9
 (2.4)8.8
Corporate and Other (1)
 (16.9) (29.0) (57.4) (60.1)(44.4)
Total $372.1
 $411.3
 $1,105.6
 $729.1
$341.3

(1)  
As described in Note 15.16. “Other Events,” included in the three and ninesix months ended September 30, 2018 is the gain of $20.5 million recognized on the sale of surplus coal resources associated with the Millennium Mine. Also included in the nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, is the gain of $20.6 million recognized on the sale of certain surplus land assets in Queensland and the gain of $7.1 million recognized on the sale of the Company’s interest in the RMJV. Included in the period January 1 through April 1, 2017 is the gain of $19.7 million recognized on the sale of Dominion Terminal Associates.




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A reconciliation of consolidated income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes to Adjusted EBITDA follows:
 Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,

2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$42.9
 $120.0
 $176.2
 $328.3
Depreciation, depletion and amortization165.4
 163.9
 337.9
 333.5
Asset retirement obligation expenses15.3
 13.2
 29.1
 25.5
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss
 
 24.7
 
North Goonyella insurance recovery - equipment (1)

 
 (91.1) 
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and reserves and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates0.3
 (8.4) 0.3
 (16.0)
Interest expense36.0
 38.3
 71.8
 74.6
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 2.0
 
 2.0
Interest income(7.2) (7.0) (15.5) (14.2)
Reorganization items, net
 
 
 (12.8)
Unrealized (gains) losses on economic hedges(22.4) 48.1
 (62.2) 9.5
Unrealized losses (gains) on non-coal trading derivative contracts0.3
 (0.1) 0.1
 1.7
Fresh start take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition(5.6) (7.8) (11.2) (16.1)
Income tax provision3.0
 7.4
 21.8
 17.5
Total Adjusted EBITDA$228.0
 $369.6
 $481.9
 $733.5

(1)
As described in Note 16. “Other Events,” the Company recorded a $125.0 million insurance recovery during the six months ended June 30, 2019 related to losses incurred at its North Goonyella Mine. Of this amount, Adjusted EBITDA excludes an allocated amount applicable to total equipment losses recognized at the time of the insurance recovery settlement, which consisted of $24.7 million and $66.4 million recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and the year ended December 31, 2018, respectively. The remaining $33.9 million, applicable to incremental costs and business interruption losses, is included in Adjusted EBITDA for the six months ended June 30, 2019.
  Successor SuccessorPredecessor


Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 
(Dollars in millions)
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes
$83.9
 $233.7

$412.2
 $335.1
$(195.5)
Depreciation, depletion and amortization
169.6
 194.5

503.1
 342.8
119.9
Asset retirement obligation expenses
12.4
 11.3

37.9
 22.3
14.6
Asset impairment

 


 
30.5
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss 49.3
 
 49.3
 

Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates
(6.1) (3.4)
(22.1) (7.7)(5.2)
Interest expense
38.2
 42.4

112.8
 83.8
32.9
Loss on early debt extinguishment 
 12.9
 2.0
 12.9

Interest income
(10.1) (2.0)
(24.3) (3.5)(2.7)
Reorganization items, net

 

(12.8) 
627.2
Break fees related to terminated asset sales

 


 (28.0)
Unrealized losses (gains) on economic hedges
26.8
 10.8

36.3
 1.4
(16.6)
Unrealized (gains) losses on non-coal trading derivative contracts
(0.3) 1.7

1.4
 (1.5)
Coal inventory revaluation

 


 67.3

Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition
(5.4) (6.5)
(21.5) (16.4)
Income tax provision (benefit)
13.8
 (84.1)
31.3
 (79.4)(263.8)
Total Adjusted EBITDA
$372.1
 $411.3

$1,105.6
 $729.1
$341.3
(20) Related Party Transactions
On August 14, 2018, Peabody Energy Corporation entered into a share repurchase agreement (the Share Repurchase Agreement) by and among the Company and Elliott Associates, LP, Liverpool Limited Partnership and Sprayberry Investments Inc. to repurchase 7,173,601 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $300 million. Pursuant to the Share Repurchase Agreement, the purchase price per share of $41.82 represented a 1.7% discount from the closing sale price of the common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on August 13, 2018. The repurchase transaction was made in conjunction with the Company’s existing share repurchase program and closed on August 21, 2018.




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Item 2.    Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
As used in this report, the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” and the “Company” refer to Peabody Energy Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, collectively, unless the context indicates otherwise. The term “Peabody” refers to Peabody Energy Corporation and not its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates. Unless otherwise noted herein, disclosures in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q relate only to our continuing operations.
When used in this filing, the term “ton” refers to short or net tons, equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kilograms), while “tonne” refers to metric tons, equal to 2,204.62 pounds (1,000 kilograms).
Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report includes statements of our expectations, intentions, plans and beliefs that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are intended to come within the safe harbor protection provided by those sections. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance, including, without limitation, the section captioned “Outlook” in this Item 2. We use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “may,” “forecast,” “project,” “should,” “estimate,” “plan,” “outlook,” “target,” “likely,” “will,” “to be” or other similar words to identify forward-looking statements.
Without limiting the foregoing, all statements relating to our future operating results, anticipated capital expenditures, future cash flows and borrowings, and sources of funding are forward-looking statements and speak only as of the date of this report. These forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions that we believe are reasonable, but are subject to a wide range of uncertainties and business risks, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in these statements. These factors are difficult to accurately predict and may be beyond our control. Factors that could affect our results or an investment in our securities include, but are not limited to:
as a result of our emergence from our Chapter 11 Cases, our historical financial information is not indicative of our future financial performance;
our profitability depends upon the prices we receive for our coal;
if a substantial number of our long-term coal supply agreements terminate, our revenues and operating profits could suffer if we are unable to find alternate buyers willing to purchase our coal on comparable terms to those in our contracts;
the loss of, or significant reduction in, purchases by our largest customers could adversely affect our revenues;
our trading and hedging activities do not cover certain risks, and may expose us to earnings volatility and other risks;
our operating results could be adversely affected by unfavorable economic and financial market conditions;
our ability to collect payments from our customers could be impaired if their creditworthiness or contractual performance deteriorates;
risks inherent to mining could increase the cost of operating our business, and events and conditions that could occur during the course of our mining operations could have a material adverse impact on us;
if transportation for our coal becomes unavailable or uneconomic for our customers, our ability to sell coal could suffer;may be diminished;
a decrease in the availability or increase in costs of key supplies, capital equipment or commodities such as diesel fuel, steel, explosives and tires could decrease our anticipated profitability;
take-or-pay arrangements within the coal industry could unfavorably affect our profitability;
an inability of trading, brokerage, mining or freight counterparties to fulfill the terms of their contracts with us could reduce our profitability;
we may not recover our investments in our mining, exploration and other assets, which may require us to recognize impairment charges related to those assets;
our ability to operate our company effectively could be impaired if we lose key personnel or fail to attract qualified personnel;
we could be negatively affected if we fail to maintain satisfactory labor relations;
we could be adversely affected if we fail to appropriately provide financial assurances for our obligations;
our mining operations are extensively regulated, which imposes significant costs on us, and future regulations and developments could increase those costs or limit our ability to produce coal;
our operations may impact the environment or cause exposure to hazardous substances, and our properties may have environmental contamination, which could result in material liabilities to us;
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if the assumptions underlying our asset retirement obligations for reclamation and mine closures are materially inaccurate, our costs could be significantly greater than anticipated;
our future success depends upon our ability to continue acquiring and developing coal reserves that are economically recoverable;
we face numerous uncertainties in estimating our economically recoverable coal reserves and inaccuracies in our estimates could result in lower than expected revenues, higher than expected costs and decreased profitability;
our global operations increase our exposure to risks unique to international mining and trading operations;
our proposed joint ventures with Arch Coal, Inc. (Arch) and Glencore plc (Glencore) may not be completed;
joint ventures, partnerships or non-managed operations may not be successful and may not comply with our operating standards;
we may undertake further repositioning plans that would require additional charges;
we could be exposed to significant liability, reputational harm, loss of revenue, increased costs or other risks if we sustain cyber attacks or other security breaches that disrupt our operations or result in the dissemination of proprietary or confidential information about us, our customers or other third-parties;
our expenditures for postretirement benefit and pension obligations could be materially higher than we have predicted if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect;
concerns about the environmental impacts of coal combustion including perceived impacts on global climate issues, are resulting inincreasingly leading to consequences that have and could continue to affect demand for our products or our securities, including the following: increased regulation of coal combustion in many jurisdictions,jurisdictions; investment decisions by electricity generators that are unfavorable to coal-fueled generation units; unfavorable lending policies by government-backed lending institutions and development banks toward the financing of new overseas coal-fueled power plantsplants; and divestment efforts affecting the institutional investment community, whichcommunity;
numerous activist groups are devoting substantial resources to anti-coal activities to minimize or eliminate the use of coal as a source of electricity generation, domestically and internationally, thereby further reducing the demand and pricing for coal, and potentially materially and adversely impacting our future financial results, liquidity and growth prospects;
we may not be able to successfully integrate the recently acquired Shoal Creek Mine or other companies, assets or properties that we may acquire in the future;
if we fail to establish and maintain proper internal controls for the Shoal Creek Mine, our ability to produce accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could significantly affect demand for our products or our securities;be impaired;
our financial performance could be adversely affected by our indebtedness;
despite our and our subsidiaries’ indebtedness, we may still be able to incur substantially more debt, including secured debt. Thisdebt, which could further increase the risks associated with our indebtedness;
we may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness or other obligations;
the terms of our indenture governing our senior secured notes and the agreements and instruments governing our other post-emergence indebtedness impose restrictions that may limit our operating and financial flexibility;
the number and quantity of viable financing alternatives available to us may be significantly impacted by unfavorable lending and investment policies by financial institutions and insurance companies associated with concerns about environmental impacts of coal combustion;
the price of our securities may be volatile;
our common stockCommon Stock is subject to dilution and may be subject to further dilution in the future;
there may be circumstances in which the interests of a significant stockholder could be in conflict with other stockholders’stakeholders’ interests;
the payment of dividends on our stock or repurchases of our stock is dependent on a number of factors, and future payments and repurchases cannot be assured;
we may not be able to fully utilize our deferred tax assets;
divestituresacquisitions and acquisitionsdivestitures are a potentially important part of our long-term strategy, subject to our investment criteria, and involve a number of risks, any of which could cause us not to realize the anticipated benefits;
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diversity in interpretation and application of accounting literature in the mining industry may impact our reported financial results; and
other risks and factors detailed in this report, including, but not limited to, those discussed in “Legal Proceedings,” set forth in Part II, Item 1 and in “Risk Factors,” set forth in Part II, Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the cautionary statements in this document and in our other Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the more detailed discussion of these factors and other factors that could affect our results contained in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” and Item 3. “Legal Proceedings” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements were made, and we undertake no obligation to update these statements except as required by federal securities laws.


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Overview
We are the world’s largest private-sector coal company by volume. In 2017,2018, we produced and sold 188.3182.1 million and 191.5186.7 million tons of coal, respectively, from continuing operations. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, we owned interests in 23 coal mining operations located in the United States (U.S.) and Australia. We have a majority interest in 22 of those mining operations and a 50% equity interest in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. (Middlemount), which owns the Middlemount Mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition to our mining operations, we market and broker coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts.
We conduct business through sixfive operating segments: Seaborne Thermal Mining, Seaborne Metallurgical Mining, Powder River Basin Mining, Midwestern U.S. Mining and Western U.S. Mining, Australian Metallurgical Mining, Australian Thermal Mining and Trading and Brokerage.Mining. Refer to Note 19.20. “Segment Information” toin the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for further information regarding those segments and the components of our Corporate and Other segment.
On September 20, 2018,June 18, 2019, we entered into a definitive asset purchaseimplementation agreement (Purchase(the Implementation Agreement) with Arch, to buyestablish a joint venture that will combine the respective Powder River Basin and Colorado mining operations of Peabody and Arch. Pursuant to the terms of the Implementation Agreement, we will hold a 66.5% economic interest in the joint venture and Arch will hold a 33.5% economic interest. We expect to proportionally consolidate the entity based upon our economic interest. Governance of the joint venture will be overseen by the joint venture’s board of managers, which will be comprised of Peabody and Arch representatives with voting powers proportionate with the companies’ economic interests. We will manage the operations of the joint venture, subject to the supervision of the joint venture’s board of managers.
Formation of the joint venture is subject to customary closing conditions, including the termination or expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, the receipt of certain other required regulatory approvals and the absence of injunctions or other legal restraints preventing the formation of the joint venture. The existing outstanding indebtedness of both Peabody and Arch limits significant transactions such as the joint venture, and accordingly, formation is subject to Peabody and Arch amending such outstanding indebtedness under agreeable terms. At such time as control over the existing operations is exchanged, the Company will account for its interest in the combined operations at fair value.
On December 3, 2018, we acquired the Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine, preparation plant and supporting assets located in Alabama (Shoal Creek Mine) from Drummond Company, Inc. (Drummond) for an aggregate purchase price of $400 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The Purchase Agreement excludes legacy liabilities other than reclamation and we will not be responsible for other liabilities arising out of or relating to the operationas further discussed in Note 3. “Acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine priorMine” to closing, including with respect to employee benefit plansthe accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. Our results of operations include the Shoal Creek Mine’s results of operations for the three and post-employment benefits.six months ended June 30, 2019. The transaction is expected to be completedShoal Creek Mine’s results are reflected in the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to regulatory approvals and certain conditions precedent, including negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement with the union-represented workforce that eliminates participation in the multi-employer pension plan and replaces it with a 401(k) retirement plan. We intend to finance the acquisition with available cash on hand.our Seaborne Metallurgical Mining segment.
Our North Goonyella Mine experienced elevated gas levels beginning in September 2018, followed byQueensland, Australia experienced a fire in a portion of the mine. The underground mine and portions ofduring September 2018. Mining operations have been suspended since September 2018. No mine personnel were physically harmed by the surface area at North Goonyella remain restricted to access through exclusion zones while work continues to sealSeptember 2018 events. On November 13, 2018, the affected area. The Queensland MinesMine Inspectorate has announced(QMI) initiated an investigation into the events relatedthat occurred at the mine to North Goonyella.determine the cause of the event, assess the response to it and make recommendations to reduce the possibility of future incidents and improve response. We will cooperate fullyare currently complying with information requests from the investigation.QMI.


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During the first quarter of 2019, we completed segmenting of the mine into multiple zones to facilitate a phased re-ventilation and re-entry of the mine. We commenced re-ventilation of the first zone of the mine during the second quarter of 2019 and subsequently re-entered the area in July 2019.  Following these activities, additional information about the regulatory process and physical condition of the mine continued to emerge. Based on these changes, we are assessing prospective paths, timetables and costs to maximize value. Given ongoing activities, we have suspended North Goonyella guidance and intend to provide new targets around North Goonyella production timing and costs in accordance with the determined path.  The company expects to complete its evaluation within the next three and nine monthsmonths.
We are targeting approximately $110 million in capital for North Goonyella Mine, including previously planned new longwall equipment. In addition, we expect cash outlays associated with leased equipment settlements.
During the year ended September 30,December 31, 2018, we recorded $9.0$58.0 million in containment and idling costs related to the events at North Goonyella Mine and a provision of $49.3$66.4 million for expected equipment losses. ThisDuring the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, we recorded an additional $28.4 million and $65.3 million, respectively, in containment and idling costs, and an additional provision of $24.7 million related to equipment losses was recorded during the six months ended June 30, 2019 as more information became available. The combined provision includes $40.2$50.7 million for the estimated cost to replace leased equipment, and $9.1$23.2 million related to the cost of Company-owned equipment. This provisionequipment and $17.2 million of other charges, which represents the best estimate of potential loss based on the assessments made to date.
In the event that no future mining occurs at North Goonyella,March 2019, we may record additional charges for the remaining carrying value of the North Goonyella Mine and additional leased equipment of approximately $284 million and $61 million, respectively. Incremental exposures include take-or-pay obligations and other costs associated with idling or closing the mine. We are pursuingentered into an insurance claim against potentially applicable insurance policiessettlement agreement with our insurers and various re-insurers under a combined property damage and business interruption loss limits ofpolicy and recorded a $125 million insurance recovery, the maximum amount available under the policy above a $50 million deductible. We have collected the full amount of the recovery.
We estimate $20On April 30, 2019, Peabody (Bowen) Pty Ltd entered into an option exercise and release agreement with Yancoal Technology Development Pty Ltd pursuant to $25 million in fourth quarter containment, monitoring and planning costs, along with approximately $15which Peabody (Bowen) Pty Ltd exercised an option to $20 million in quarterly costs to keepacquire from Yancoal Technology Development Pty Ltd the mine in idle status pending any future re-entry. We intend to take all necessary steps to work safely, progress the plan and look to mitigate costs while pursuing options for resumption of activitieslongwall mining equipment used under license at the appropriate time. Mitigation actions under consideration include pursuing means to access a small quantity of metallurgical coal remaining in the stockpile, subletting excess rail and port capacityNorth Goonyella Mine for a limited time, and analyzing reprocessing of coal waste$54.2 million, which was consistent with our provision for potential sales into the thermal market.
Multiple scenarios are being evaluated should mining be able to resume. If the next panel that is already developed is accessible, production would be targetedequipment losses for the second half of 2019, whereas the southern panels access would likely extend to 2020 since that development was in early stages. We are exploring all reasonable mine-planning steps given the long-lived nature of reserves and compelling margins of the mine during times of strong industry conditions.
Filing Under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code
On April 13, 2016 (the Petition Date), Peabody and a majority of its wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, as well as one international subsidiary in Gibraltar (collectively with Peabody, the Debtors) filed voluntary petitions for reorganization (the Bankruptcy Petitions) under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the Bankruptcy Court). The Debtors’ Chapter 11 cases (collectively, the Chapter 11 Cases) were jointly administered under the caption In re Peabody Energy Corporation, et al., Case No. 16-42529 (Bankr. E.D. Mo.).


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On March 17, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order, Docket No. 2763, confirming the Debtors’ Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession (as further modified, the Plan). On April 3, 2017 (the Effective Date), the Debtors satisfied the conditions to effectiveness set forth in the Plan, the Plan became effective in accordance with its terms and the Debtors emerged from the Chapter 11 Cases.
A group of creditors (the Ad Hoc Committee) that held certain interests in the Company's prepetition indebtedness appealed the Bankruptcy Court's order confirming the Plan. On December 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the District Court) entered an order dismissing the Ad Hoc Committee's appeal, and, in the alternative, affirming the order confirming the Plan. On January 26, 2018, the Ad Hoc Committee appealed the District Court's order to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (the Eighth Circuit). In its appeal, the Ad Hoc Committee does not ask the Eighth Circuit to reverse the order confirming the Plan. Instead, the Ad Hoc Committee asks the Eighth Circuit to award the Ad Hoc Committee members either unspecified damages or the right to buy an unspecified amount of Company stock at a discount. The Company does not believe the appeal is meritorious and will vigorously defend it.
Upon emergence, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 852, we applied fresh start reporting to our consolidated financial statements as of April 1, 2017 and became a new entity for financial reporting purposes reflecting the Successor (as defined below) capital structure. As a new entity, a new accounting basis in the identifiable assets and liabilities assumed was established with no retained earnings or accumulated other comprehensive income (loss). For additional details, refer to Note 1. “Basis of Presentation” to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
References to “Successor” are in reference to reporting dates on or after April 2, 2017; references to “Predecessor” are in reference to reporting dates through April 1, 2017, which include the impact of the Plan provisions and the application of fresh start reporting. Although the 2017 Successor period and the 2017 Predecessor period are distinct reporting periods, the effects of emergence and fresh start reporting did not have a material impact on the comparability of our results of operations between the periods, unless otherwise noted below. Accordingly, references to the 2017 results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 combine the two periods to enhance the comparability of such information to the current year.related impaired assets.
Results of Operations
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following discussion of our results of operations includes references to and analysis of Adjusted EBITDA, which is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP). Adjusted EBITDA is used by management as the primary metric to measure each of our segment’ssegments’ operating performance.
Also included in the following discussion of our results of operations are references to Revenues per Ton, Costs per Ton and Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton for each mining segment. These metrics are used by management to measure each of our mining segment’ssegments’ operating performance. Management believes Costs per Ton and Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton best reflect controllable costs and operating results at the mining segment level. We consider all measures reported on a per ton basis to be operating/statistical measures; however, we include reconciliations of the related non-GAAP financial measures (Adjusted EBITDA and Total Reporting Segment Costs) in the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section contained within this Item 2.
In our discussion of liquidity and capital resources, we include references to Free Cash Flow which is also a non-GAAP measure. Free Cash Flow is used by management as a measure of our financial performance and our ability to generate excess cash flow from our business operations.
We believe non-GAAP performance measures are used by investors to measure our operating performance and lenders to measure our ability to incur and service debt. These measures are not intended to serve as alternatives to U.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section contained within this Item 2 for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.




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Three and NineSix Months Ended SeptemberJune 30,20182019 Compared to the Three and NineSix Months Ended SeptemberJune 30,20172018
Summary
Spot pricing for premium low-vol hard coking coal (Premium HCC), premium low-vol pulverized coal injection (Premium PCI) coal, and Newcastle index thermal coal and API 5 thermal coal, and prompt month pricing for Powder River Basin (PRB) 8,880 Btu/Lb coal and Illinois Basin 11,500 Btu/Lb coal during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 is set forth in the table below. Pricing for our Western U.S. Mining segment is not included as there is no similar spot or prompt pricing data available.
In the U.S., theThe seaborne pricing included in the table below is not necessarily indicative of the pricing we realized during the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 due to quality differentials and the majority of our seaborne sales being executed through annual and multi-year international coal supply agreements that contain provisions requiring both parties to renegotiate pricing periodically. Our typical practice is to negotiate pricing for seaborne metallurgical coal contracts on a quarterly, spot or index basis and seaborne thermal coal contracts on an annual, spot or index basis.
In the U.S., the pricing included in the table below is also not necessarily indicative of the pricing we realized during the three months ended June 30, 2019 since we generally sell coal under long-term contracts where pricing is determined based on various factors. Such long-term contracts in the U.S. may vary significantly in many respects, including price adjustment features, price reopener terms, coal quality requirements, quantity parameters, permitted sources of supply, treatment of environmental constraints, extension options, force majeure and termination and assignment provisions. Competition from alternative fuels such as natural gas and other coal producers may also impact our realized pricing.
The seaborne pricing included in the table below is also not necessarily indicative of the pricing we realized during the three months ended September 30, 2018 due to quality differentials and the majority of our Australian sales being executed through annual and multi-year international coal supply agreements that contain provisions requiring both parties to renegotiate pricing periodically. Our typical practice is to negotiate pricing for seaborne metallurgical coal contracts on a quarterly, spot or index basis and seaborne thermal coal contracts on an annual, spot or index basis.
 High Low Average September 30, 2018 High Low Average June 30, 2019
Premium HCC (1)
 $208.50
 $172.00
 $188.55
 $201.50
 $209.80
 $193.60
 $202.60
 $193.60
Premium PCI coal (1)
 $135.20
 $118.15
 $127.99
 $130.10
 $128.65
 $119.35
 $124.74
 $121.85
Newcastle index thermal coal (1)
 $119.90
 $113.15
 $116.67
 $113.85
 $89.34
 $68.81
 $80.12
 $68.81
API 5 thermal coal (1)
 $61.10
 $50.78
 $57.05
 $50.78
PRB 8,800 Btu/Lb coal (2)
 $12.55
 $12.25
 $12.41
 $12.50
 $12.55
 $12.10
 $12.19
 $12.10
Illinois Basin 11,500 Btu/Lb coal (2)
 $46.00
 $41.00
 $43.44
 $46.00
 $43.00
 $38.85
 $40.30
 $38.85
(1) 
Prices expressed per tonne.
(2) 
Prices expressed per ton.
With respect to seaborne metallurgical coal, global steel production increased approximately 5% duringthrough the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 as compared to the prior year period. India imports increased approximately 10% through September 30, 2018, compared to the prior year driven by a 6% increase in steel production through the nine months ended September 30, 2018. Despite continued strength in Chinese steel production, metallurgical coal imports declined approximately 2 million tonnes during the nine months ended September 30, 2018,7% as compared to the prior year, primarily dueamid steel production growth of approximately 2% year-over-year through June 30, 2019. Steel production in China increased approximately 10% through the six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to increased reliancethe prior year resulting in an approximate 22% increase in coking coal imports during the same period. China’s steel production continues to be fueled by infrastructure spending. While fundamentals are strong, China’s seaborne demand will remain dependent on domestic supplies and scrap steel.the country’s import policies.
Seaborne thermal coal demand and pricing continuewas subdued due to be supported by robust Asian demand, primarilyrestrictions in China and India.low gas prices coupled with elevated stockpiles in Europe, despite robust demand from India and other Asian regions. Chinese thermal coal imports rosewere flat at approximately 18%, or 27118 million tonnes, through Septemberthe six months ended June 30, 2018,2019, as compared to the prior year. China’s domestic production has been constrained by heightened mine safety inspections leading to a modest 3% increase in production through the six months ended June 30, 2019, as compared to the prior year on sturdy industrial activity and an increase of approximately 7% in thermal coal power generation driven by economic growth and favorable weather conditions. In addition, Chinese domestic coal production has been unable to keep pace with the increased power generation and industrial demands, along with customer restocking.period. India’s domestic coal production has also been unableincreased approximately 5% through the six months ended June 30, 2019, but was not sufficient to keep pace withmeet growing electricity demand resulting in an increase of approximately 19%, or 20 million tonnes, infrom the industrial and power sector. As a result, India’s thermal coal imports have increased by approximately 16% or 13 million tonnes year-over-year through SeptemberJune 30, 2018, compared to2019. Demand from countries comprising the prior year. Coal inventories at India’s power plants remain below targeted levels while industrial demand is strong, supporting the need for additional thermal coal imports.Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) increased 11 million tonnes, primarily led by Vietnam.
In the United States, stronger weather compared to the first nine months of 2017 drove overall electricity demand higherwas down year-over-year through Septemberthe six months ended June 30, 2018. However, the2019. This combination of year-to-datelower demand, continued coal plant retirements and weak natural gas prices and increased renewable generation havehas negatively impacted coal generation. Through the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, utility consumption of Powder River BasinPRB coal fell approximately 4%13% as compared to the prior year due to ongoing pressure from retirements and regional natural gas prices that continue to trade at a discount to quoted Henry Hub natural gas spot prices. In addition, continued transportation disruptions in the upper Great Plains due to heavy flooding led to reduced rail shipments and production of PRB coal, down approximately 7% year-over-year through the six months ended June 30, 2019.




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RevenuesOur revenues for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 decreased as compared to the same period in 20172018 ($64.6 million)160.4 million and $372.5 million, respectively) primarily due to lower sales volumes drivenand realized prices. Our Seaborne Metallurgical Mining segment was adversely impacted by demand factors mentioned above and a longwall movethe events at our North Goonyella Mine. The impact of the decrease in sales volumes wasMine described above, as well as other production factors, partially offset by higher Australian realized pricing. During the three months ended September 30, 2018, we experienced year-over-year decreasesvolume from our Shoal Creek Mine. Our Powder River Basin Mining and Midwestern U.S. Mining segments were adversely impacted by delays in net interest expense ($25.2 million) as the result of higher cash balances, principal prepayments and debt refinancing and in depreciation, depletion and amortization ($24.9 million) primarily due to lower amortization of the fair value of certain U.S. coal supply agreements. We experienced a year-over-year increase in gains on assets disposals ($20.4 million) during the three months ended September 30, 2018.rail shipments caused by severe flooding.
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes decreased by $149.8 million for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 decreased as compared to the same period in the prior year.year ($77.1 million and $152.1 million, respectively). The decrease was driven by a tax benefit of $84.1 million recorded in the third quarter of 2017 relatedunfavorable revenue variances described above, as well as lower income from equity affiliates due to refunds for U.S. net operating loss carrybacks as compared to a tax provision of $13.8 million recorded inproduction issues at the current period and a $49.3 million provision recordedMiddlemount Mine (three months, $15.5 million; six months, $34.0 million), lower gains on disposals in the current year period(six months, $27.3 million), a provision for equipment losses at our North Goonyella Mine (six months, $24.7 million) and bankruptcy-related claims settlement gains recorded in the prior year (six months, $12.8 million). These unfavorable variances were partially offset by reduced operating costs and expenses owing largely to the sales volume decline as well as production efficiencies and other cost improvements (three months, $88.3 million; six months, $197.1 million), an insurance recovery related to the equipment lossevents at our North Goonyella. Goonyella Mine (six months, $125.0 million) and lower selling and administrative expenses (three months, $5.2 million; six months, $5.5 million).
The decrease in net income attributable to common stockholders induring the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 as compared to the same period in 20172018 was less than the decrease in net income from continuing operations, net of income taxes due topartially offset by dividends ($23.5102.5 million) recorded in the prior year period related to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (Preferred Stock)convertible preferred stock issued by the Successor Company.in connection with our bankruptcy exit. Adjusted EBITDA for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019 reflected a year-over-year decrease of $39.2 million.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2018, income from continuing operations, net of income taxes of $412.2 million included revenues of $4,184.7 million, income from equity affiliates of $64.4$141.6 million and net gain on disposals of $49.8 million. These were offset by operating costs of $3,051.6$251.6 million, depreciation, depletion and amortization of $503.1 million, selling and administrative expenses of $119.7 million, interest expense of $112.8 million and a provision related to the North Goonyella equipment loss of $49.3 million. Net income attributable to common stockholders of $291.8 million included dividends of $102.5 million related to the conversion of the remaining shares of Preferred Stock. Adjusted EBITDA for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was $1,105.6 million.
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes of $335.1 million for the period April 2 through September 30, 2017 included revenues of $2,735.5 million, a tax benefit of $79.4 million and income from equity affiliates of $26.2 million. These were offset by operating costs of $1,967.0 million, depreciation, depletion and amortization of $342.8 million and interest expense of $83.8 million related to the new debt instruments for the Successor Company. Net income attributable to common stockholders of $181.2 million was impacted by Preferred Stock dividends of $138.6 million. Adjusted EBITDA for the period April 2 through September 30, 2017 was $729.1 million.
For the period January 1 through April 1, 2017, loss from continuing operations, net of income taxes of $195.5 million included revenues of $1,326.2 million and a tax benefit of $263.8 million. These were offset by operating costs of $950.2 million, depreciation, depletion and amortization of $119.9 million, interest expense of $32.9 million and reorganization items, net of $627.2 million which included the impact of the Plan provisions and the application of fresh start reporting. Adjusted EBITDA for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017 was $341.3 million.respectively.
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, our available liquidity was approximately $1.69$1.20 billion. Refer to the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section contained within this Item 2 for a further discussion of factors affecting our available liquidity.


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Tons Sold
The following tables presenttable presents tons sold by operating segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor (Decrease) Increase
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Volumes
 Tons %
(Tons in millions)  Three Months Ended Decrease Six Months Ended Increase (Decrease)
June 30, to Volumes June 30, to Volumes
2019 2018 Tons % 2019 2018 Tons %
(Tons in millions)   (Tons in millions)  
Seaborne Thermal Mining4.7
 5.0
 (0.3) (6)% 9.2
 8.8
 0.4
 5 %
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining2.1
 2.9
 (0.8) (28)% 4.4
 5.9
 (1.5) (25)%
Powder River Basin Mining31.7
 33.7
 (2.0) (6)%25.0
 26.2
 (1.2) (5)% 50.3
 58.6
 (8.3) (14)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining4.9
 4.9
 
  %3.9
 4.7
 (0.8) (17)% 8.1
 9.4
 (1.3) (14)%
Western U.S. Mining4.0
 4.0
 
  %3.3
 3.5
 (0.2) (6)% 7.0
 7.2
 (0.2) (3)%
Australian Metallurgical Mining2.8
 3.5
 (0.7) (20)%
Australian Thermal Mining4.8
 5.2
 (0.4) (8)%
Total tons sold from mining segments48.2
 51.3
 (3.1) (6)%39.0
 42.3
 (3.3) (8)% 79.0
 89.9
 (10.9) (12)%
Trading and Brokerage0.9
 0.7
 0.2
 29 %
Corporate and Other0.4
 0.8
 (0.4) (50)% 0.9
 1.5
 (0.6) (40)%
Total tons sold49.1
 52.0
 (2.9) (6)%39.4
 43.1
 (3.7) (9)% 79.9
 91.4
 (11.5) (13)%


Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined (Decrease) Increase
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Volumes
    Tons %
 (Tons in millions)  
Powder River Basin Mining90.3
 62.2
31.0
 93.2
 (2.9) (3)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining14.3
 9.5
4.5
 14.0
 0.3
 2 %
Western U.S. Mining11.2
 7.2
3.4
 10.6
 0.6
 6 %
Australian Metallurgical Mining8.7
 5.5
2.2
 7.7
 1.0
 13 %
Australian Thermal Mining13.6
 9.8
4.6
 14.4
 (0.8) (6)%
Total tons sold from mining segments138.1
 94.2
45.7
 139.9
 (1.8) (1)%
Trading and Brokerage2.4
 1.4
0.4
 1.8
 0.6
 33 %
Total tons sold140.5
 95.6
46.1
 141.7
 (1.2) (1)%
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Supplemental Financial Data
The following tables presenttable presents supplemental financial data by operating segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor  
Three Months Ended (Decrease) Six Months Ended (Decrease)
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 (Decrease) IncreaseJune 30, Increase June 30, Increase
 $ %2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
                      
Revenues per Ton - Mining Operations (1)
                      
Seaborne Thermal$46.41
 $53.68
 $(7.27) (14)% $51.18
 $53.57
 $(2.39) (4)%
Seaborne Metallurgical138.42
 143.98
 (5.56) (4)% 140.45
 148.58
 (8.13) (5)%
Powder River Basin$11.80
 $12.48
 $(0.68) (5)%11.33
 12.24
 (0.91) (7)% 11.34
 12.12
 (0.78) (6)%
Midwestern U.S.42.45
 42.52
 (0.07)  %42.47
 42.12
 0.35
 1 % 42.56
 42.39
 0.17
  %
Western U.S.38.91
 38.25
 0.66
 2 %43.73
 39.87
 3.86
 10 % 42.66
 39.40
 3.26
 8 %
Australian Metallurgical132.50
 119.55
 12.95
 11 %
Australian Thermal63.50
 51.78
 11.72
 23 %
Costs per Ton - Mining Operations (1)(2)
                      
Seaborne Thermal$30.73
 $32.05
 $(1.32) (4)% $32.82
 $34.23
 $(1.41) (4)%
Seaborne Metallurgical (3)
111.12
 89.37
 21.75
 24 % 107.77
 93.96
 13.81
 15 %
Powder River Basin$9.01
 $9.13
 $(0.12) (1)%9.72
 9.88
 (0.16) (2)% 9.82
 9.79
 0.03
  %
Midwestern U.S.34.57
 32.39
 2.18
 7 %34.66
 33.16
 1.50
 5 % 34.70
 34.61
 0.09
  %
Western U.S.31.80
 29.77
 2.03
 7 %27.59
 30.21
 (2.62) (9)% 29.04
 30.24
 (1.20) (4)%
Australian Metallurgical100.14
 78.42
 21.72
 28 %
Australian Thermal33.20
 32.72
 0.48
 1 %
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton - Mining Operations (1)(2)
                      
Seaborne Thermal$15.68
 $21.63
 $(5.95) (28)% $18.36
 $19.34
 $(0.98) (5)%
Seaborne Metallurgical (3)
27.30
 54.61
 (27.31) (50)% 32.68
 54.62
 (21.94) (40)%
Powder River Basin$2.79
 $3.35
 $(0.56) (17)%1.61
 2.36
 (0.75) (32)% 1.52
 2.33
 (0.81) (35)%
Midwestern U.S.7.88
 10.13
 (2.25) (22)%7.81
 8.96
 (1.15) (13)% 7.86
 7.78
 0.08
 1 %
Western U.S.7.11
 8.48
 (1.37) (16)%16.14
 9.66
 6.48
 67 % 13.62
 9.16
 4.46
 49 %
Australian Metallurgical32.36
 41.13
 (8.77) (21)%
Australian Thermal30.30
 19.06
 11.24
 59 %
(1) 
This is an operating/statistical measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.
(2) 
Includes revenue-based production taxes and royalties; excludes depreciation, depletion and amortization; asset retirement obligation expenses; selling and administrative expenses; restructuring charges; provision for North Goonyella equipment loss;loss and related insurance recovery; amortization of fresh start reporting adjustments related to take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition;intangibles; and certain other costs related to post-mining activities.


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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined  
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 (Decrease) Increase
    $ %
           
Revenues per Ton - Mining Operations (1)
          
Powder River Basin$12.01
 $12.65
$12.70
 $12.67
 $(0.66) (5)%
Midwestern U.S.42.41
 42.57
42.96
 42.69
 (0.28) (1)%
Western U.S.39.23
 38.54
44.68
 40.47
 (1.24) (3)%
Australian Metallurgical143.44
 128.89
150.22
 135.03
 8.41
 6 %
Australian Thermal57.09
 51.65
48.65
 50.69
 6.40
 13 %
Costs per Ton - Mining
Operations (1)(2)
          
Powder River Basin$9.52
 $9.47
$9.75
 $9.57
 $(0.05) (1)%
Midwestern U.S.34.60
 32.42
31.84
 32.23
 2.37
 7 %
Western U.S.30.80
 27.65
29.76
 28.31
 2.49
 9 %
Australian Metallurgical95.90
 89.53
100.16
 92.57
 3.33
 4 %
Australian Thermal33.89
 30.79
32.27
 31.29
 2.60
 8 %
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton - Mining Operations (1)(2)
          
Powder River Basin$2.49
 $3.18
$2.95
 $3.10
 $(0.61) (20)%
Midwestern U.S.7.81
 10.15
11.12
 10.46
 (2.65) (25)%
Western U.S.8.43
 10.89
14.92
 12.16
 (3.73) (31)%
Australian Metallurgical47.54
 39.36
50.06
 42.46
 5.08
 12 %
Australian Thermal23.20
 20.86
16.38
 19.40
 3.80
 20 %
(1)(3) 
This is an operating/statistical measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer toThe events at the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.
(2)
Includes revenue-based production taxes and royalties; excludes depreciation, depletion and amortization; asset retirement obligation expenses; selling and administrative expenses; asset impairment; provision for North Goonyella equipment loss; coal inventory revaluation; take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition;Mine resulted in additional Costs per Ton and certain other costs related to post-mining activities.lower Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton for Seaborne Metallurgical of $13.51 and $7.17 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, respectively.
Revenues
The following tables presenttable presents revenues by reporting segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor (Decrease) Increase
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Revenues
   $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Powder River Basin Mining$373.7
 $420.9
 $(47.2) (11)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining208.5
 207.7
 0.8
  %
Western U.S. Mining156.1
 155.7
 0.4
  %
Australian Metallurgical Mining370.3
 415.9
 (45.6) (11)%
Australian Thermal Mining305.1
 265.8
 39.3
 15 %
Trading and Brokerage22.6
 19.4
 3.2
 16 %
Corporate and Other(23.7) (8.2) (15.5) (189)%
Total revenues$1,412.6
 $1,477.2
 $(64.6) (4)%
 Three Months Ended (Decrease) Increase Six Months Ended Increase (Decrease)
 June 30, to Revenues June 30, to Revenues
 2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
 (Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Seaborne Thermal Mining$220.2
 $267.4
 $(47.2) (18)% $471.2
 $468.8
 $2.4
 1 %
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining290.9
 417.5
 (126.6) (30)% 615.4
 883.7
 (268.3) (30)%
Powder River Basin Mining282.6
 321.5
 (38.9) (12)% 569.9
 710.8
 (140.9) (20)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining167.5
 197.5
 (30.0) (15)% 346.6
 399.2
 (52.6) (13)%
Western U.S. Mining142.1
 139.6
 2.5
 2 % 297.8
 283.3
 14.5
 5 %
Corporate and Other45.7
 (34.1) 79.8
 234 % 98.7
 26.3
 72.4
 275 %
Revenues$1,149.0
 $1,309.4
 $(160.4) (12)% $2,399.6
 $2,772.1
 $(372.5) (13)%




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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined (Decrease) Increase
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Revenues
    $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Powder River Basin Mining$1,084.5
 $786.3
$394.3
 $1,180.6
 $(96.1) (8)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining607.7
 402.6
193.2
 595.8
 11.9
 2 %
Western U.S. Mining439.4
 281.1
149.7
 430.8
 8.6
 2 %
Australian Metallurgical Mining1,254.0
 703.7
328.9
 1,032.6
 221.4
 21 %
Australian Thermal Mining773.9
 505.0
224.8
 729.8
 44.1
 6 %
Trading and Brokerage52.7
 24.6
15.0
 39.6
 13.1
 33 %
Corporate and Other(27.5) 32.2
20.3
 52.5
 (80.0) (152)%
Total revenues$4,184.7
 $2,735.5
$1,326.2
 $4,061.7
 $123.0
 3 %
Powder River BasinSeaborne Thermal Mining. Segment revenues decreased during the three and nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 compared to the same periodsperiod in the prior year due to lowerunfavorable realized coal pricing (three months, $19.5 million; nine months, $54.3($28.1 million) and demand-basedunfavorable volume decreases (three months, 2.0 million tons, $27.7 million; nine months, 2.9 million tons, $41.8and mix variances ($19.1 million) which were impacted by natural gas pricing and plant retirements.
Midwestern U.S. Mining.resulting from various mine sequencing impacts. Segment revenues increased during the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 compared to the same period in the prior year due to favorable volume and mix variances ($13.9(0.4 million tons, $28.9 million), which were slightlymostly offset by lowerunfavorable realized coal pricing ($2.026.5 million).
Western U.S. Mining. Segment revenues increased during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to favorable volume and mix variances ($15.3 million), which were offset by lower liquidated damages received ($7.4 million).
AustralianSeaborne Metallurgical Mining. Segment revenues decreased during the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year due to unfavorable volume and mix variances (0.7 million tons, $102.2 million) resulting from a longwall move at our North Goonyella Mine and the winding down of operations at our Millennium Mine. The decrease in volumes was partially offset by higher realized coal pricing ($56.6 million) due to higher spot pricing. Segment revenues increased during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to favorable volume and mix variances (1.0 million tons, $130.7 million) resulting from the 2017 impacts of Cyclone Debbie and an extended longwall move at our Metropolitan Mine, partly offset by the 2018 impacts of the longwall move at our North Goonyella Mine. The increase in revenues was also impacted by higher realized coal pricing ($90.7 million).
Australian Thermal Mining. Segment revenues increased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 20182019 compared to the same periods in the prior year primarily due to higherunfavorable volumes (three months, 0.8 million tons, $109.9 million; six months, 1.5 million tons, $244.5 million). The unfavorable volume variance resulting from the transition to highwall mining at our Millennium Mine in September 2018, a longwall move at our Metropolitan Mine and various mine sequencing impacts (three months, 0.9 million tons, $119.5 million; six months, 1.5 million tons, $198.0 million) and no current year volume from our North Goonyella Mine (three months, 0.6 million tons, $104.9 million; six months, 1.4 million tons, $277.2 million) was partially offset by volume provided by our Shoal Creek Mine, acquired in December 2018 (three months, 0.7 million tons, $114.5 million; six months, 1.4 million tons, $230.7 million). Segment revenues were further impacted by lower realized coal pricing (three months, $57.1$16.7 million; ninesix months, $113.4$23.8 million) related to spot pricing. The increases were offset by unfavorable volume and mix variances (three months, $17.8 million; nine months, $69.3 million).
Trading and Brokerage. Powder River Basin Mining. Segment revenues increaseddecreased during the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 compared to the same periods in the prior year due to increased priceslower volume primarily attributable to railroad closures and physical volumes shipped.delays that resulted from severe flooding across the upper Great Plains and partially attributable to demand-based decline (three months, $20.5 million; six months, $109.6 million) and unfavorable realized pricing (three months, $18.4 million; six months, $31.3 million).
Corporate and Other. Midwestern U.S. Mining.Segment revenues decreased during the three and nine sixmonths ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 compared to the same periods in the prior year primarily due to unrealized losses on economic hedgeslower volume (three months, $16.0$29.7 million; ninesix months, $51.5$53.1 million) attributable to limited shipments caused by heavy rainfall throughout the Midwest and demand-based decline.
Western U.S. Mining. Segment revenues increased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same periods in the prior year receipt of break fees (nineas favorable realized pricing, primarily from our Kayenta Mine (three months, $28.0$7.5 million; six months, $22.1 million) related, outpaced an unfavorable volume and mix variance (three months, $5.0 million; six months $7.6 million).
Corporate and Other. Segment revenues increased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to terminated asset sales which are further describedthe same periods in Note 15. “Other Events” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.prior year primarily due to improved results on economic hedges.


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Adjusted EBITDA
The following tables presenttable presents Adjusted EBITDA for each of our reporting segments:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor (Decrease) Increase
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Segment Adjusted EBITDA
 $ %
(Dollars in millions)  Three Months Ended (Decrease) Increase Six Months Ended (Decrease) Increase
June 30, to Segment Adjusted EBITDA June 30, to Segment Adjusted EBITDA
2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
(Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Seaborne Thermal Mining$74.4
 $107.6
 $(33.2) (31)% $169.1
 $169.2
 $(0.1)  %
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining57.4
 158.5
 (101.1) (64)% 143.2
 324.9
 (181.7) (56)%
Powder River Basin Mining$88.2
 $112.7
 $(24.5) (22)%40.2
 62.0
 (21.8) (35)% 76.6
 136.5
 (59.9) (44)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining38.7
 49.5
 (10.8) (22)%30.7
 42.0
 (11.3) (27)% 64.0
 73.2
 (9.2) (13)%
Western U.S. Mining28.5
 34.5
 (6.0) (17)%52.4
 33.9
 18.5
 55 % 95.0
 65.9
 29.1
 44 %
Australian Metallurgical Mining90.7
 143.1
 (52.4) (37)%
Australian Thermal Mining145.3
 97.8
 47.5
 49 %
Trading and Brokerage(2.4) 2.7
 (5.1) (189)%
Corporate and Other(16.9) (29.0) 12.1
 42 %(27.1) (34.4) 7.3
 21 % (66.0) (36.2) (29.8) (82)%
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
$372.1
 $411.3
 $(39.2) (10)%$228.0
 $369.6
 $(141.6) (38)% $481.9
 $733.5
 $(251.6) (34)%
(1) 
This is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.


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Seaborne Thermal Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same period in the prior year as a result of lower realized net coal pricing ($25.9 million) and unfavorable volume variances ($11.4 million), partially offset by favorable foreign currency impacts ($6.7 million) and favorable cost performance from our thermal surface mines ($1.7 million). Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same period in the prior year as a result of lower realized net coal pricing ($24.5 million) and unfavorable mine sequencing impacts among our thermal surface mines ($10.1 million), offset by improved longwall performance at our Wambo Underground Mine ($15.4 million) and favorable foreign currency impacts ($14.5 million).
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year due to unfavorable volume variances as described above (three months, $34.2 million; six months, $110.0 million). The impact of no current year volume from our North Goonyella Mine (three months, $42.2 million; six months, $136.9 million) was offset by the volume provided by our Shoal Creek Mine (three months, $61.7 million; six months, $110.4 million). The decrease in Segment Adjusted EBITDA was further impacted by the net containment and holding costs at our North Goonyella Mine (three months, $28.4 million; six months, $31.4 million), the impact of a longwall move at our Metropolitan Mine (three months, $28.1 million; six months, $7.2 million), lower net realized pricing (three months, $15.1 million; six months, $21.4 million) and mine sequencing impacts among our metallurgical surface operations (three months, $8.6 million; six months, $21.2 million). These negative variances were partially offset by favorable foreign currency impacts (three months, $14.5 million; six months, $28.6 million).
Powder River Basin Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year due to higher costs for materials, services and repairs (three months, $10.3 million), the impact of lower volume (three months, $8.8 million; six months, $52.9 million) primarily attributable to railroad closures and delays that resulted from severe flooding across the upper Great Plains and lower net realized coal pricing (three months, $7.3 million; six months, $12.8 million), partially offset by lower lease expenses due to early lease buyouts (three months, $3.5 million; six months, $6.7 million).
Midwestern U.S. Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year primarily due to the impact of lower volume (three months, $5.8 million; six months, $7.1 million), mine sequencing impacts (three months, $3.6 million; six months, $5.8 million) and higher costs for materials, services and repairs (three months, $2.3 million), partially offset by higher net realized coal pricing (three months, $1.1 million; six months, $3.1 million).
Western U.S. Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year primarily due to higher net realized coal pricing (three months, $6.8 million; six months, $16.4 million), lower costs for materials, services and repairs (three months, $4.4 million; six months, $13.5 million) and mine sequencing (three months, $3.9 million).


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Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA. The following table presents a summary of the components of Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA:
Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined (Decrease) Increase
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Segment Adjusted EBITDA
    $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Powder River Basin Mining$224.7
 $197.5
$91.7
 $289.2
 $(64.5) (22)%
Midwestern U.S. Mining111.9
 96.0
50.0
 146.0
 (34.1) (23)%
Western U.S. Mining94.4
 79.4
50.0
 129.4
 (35.0) (27)%
Australian Metallurgical Mining415.6
 215.0
109.6
 324.6
 91.0
 28 %
Australian Thermal Mining314.5
 203.7
75.6
 279.3
 35.2
 13 %
Trading and Brokerage1.9
 (2.4)8.8
 6.4
 (4.5) (70)%
Corporate and Other(57.4) (60.1)(44.4) (104.5) 47.1
 45 %
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
$1,105.6
 $729.1
$341.3
 $1,070.4
 $35.2
 3 %
 Three Months Ended (Decrease) Increase Six Months Ended (Decrease) Increase
 June 30, to Adjusted EBITDA June 30, to Adjusted EBITDA
 2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
 (Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Middlemount (1)
$10.0
 $17.2
 $(7.2) (42)% $13.9
 $31.8
 $(17.9) (56)%
Resource management activities (2)
1.7
 0.7
 1.0
 143 % 3.7
 21.5
 (17.8) (83)%
Selling and administrative expenses(38.9) (44.1) 5.2
 12 % (75.6) (81.1) 5.5
 7 %
Transaction costs related to business combinations and joint ventures(1.6) 
 (1.6) n.m.
 (1.6) 
 (1.6) n.m.
Other items, net (3)
1.7
 (8.2) 9.9
 121 % (6.4) (8.4) 2.0
 24 %
Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA$(27.1) $(34.4) $7.3
 21 % $(66.0) $(36.2) $(29.8) (82)%
(1) 
Middlemount’s results are before the impact of related changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and reserves and amortization of basis difference. Middlemount’s standalone results included (on a 50% attributable basis) aggregate amounts of depreciation, depletion and amortization, asset retirement obligation expenses, net interest expense, and income taxes of $9.5 million and $14.2 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $17.0 million and $26.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
(2)
Includes gains (losses) on certain surplus coal reserve and surface land sales and property management costs and revenues.
(3)
Includes trading and brokerage activities, costs associated with post-mining activities, certain coal royalty expenses, gains (losses) on certain asset disposals, minimum charges on certain transportation-related contracts and expenses related to our other commercial activities.
During the three months ended June 30, 2019, Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA increased as compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to favorable results from trading and brokerage activities and lower selling and administrative expenses for outside services. These favorable results were partially offset by an unfavorable variance in the results of Middlemount due primarily to highwall production issues and transaction costs related to the proposed PRB Colorado joint venture with Arch as further described in Note 16. “Other Events” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
During the six months ended June 30, 2019, Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA declined as compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to a $20.6 million resource management gain recorded in the prior year period related to the sale of surplus land assets in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, an unfavorable variance in the results of Middlemount due primarily to highwall production issues and a $7.1 million gain recorded in the prior year period related to the sale of our 50% interest in the Red Mountain Joint Venture with BHP Billiton Mitsui Coal Pty Ltd, as further described in Note 16. “Other Events” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. These unfavorable results were partially offset by favorable results from trading and brokerage activities and lower selling and administrative expenses for outside services.


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Income From Continuing Operations, Net of Income Taxes
The following table presents income from continuing operations, net of income taxes:
 Three Months Ended (Decrease) Increase Six Months Ended (Decrease) Increase
 June 30, to Income June 30, to Income
 2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
 (Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
$228.0
 $369.6
 $(141.6) (38)% $481.9
 $733.5
 $(251.6) (34)%
Depreciation, depletion and amortization(165.4) (163.9) (1.5) (1)% (337.9) (333.5) (4.4) (1)%
Asset retirement obligation expenses(15.3) (13.2) (2.1) (16)% (29.1) (25.5) (3.6) (14)%
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss
 
 
 n.m.
 (24.7) 
 (24.7) n.m.
North Goonyella insurance recovery - equipment
 
 
 n.m.
 91.1
 
 91.1
 n.m.
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and reserves and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates(0.3) 8.4
 (8.7) (104)% (0.3) 16.0
 (16.3) (102)%
Interest expense(36.0) (38.3) 2.3
 6 % (71.8) (74.6) 2.8
 4 %
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 (2.0) 2.0
 100 % 
 (2.0) 2.0
 100 %
Interest income7.2
 7.0
 0.2
 3 % 15.5
 14.2
 1.3
 9 %
Reorganization items, net
 
 
 n.m.
 
 12.8
 (12.8) (100)%
Unrealized gains (losses) on economic hedges22.4
 (48.1) 70.5
 147 % 62.2
 (9.5) 71.7
 755 %
Unrealized (losses) gains on non-coal trading derivative contracts(0.3) 0.1
 (0.4) (400)% (0.1) (1.7) 1.6
 94 %
Fresh start take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition5.6
 7.8
 (2.2) (28)% 11.2
 16.1
 (4.9) (30)%
Income tax provision(3.0) (7.4) 4.4
 59 % (21.8) (17.5) (4.3) (25)%
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$42.9
 $120.0
 $(77.1) (64)% $176.2
 $328.3
 $(152.1) (46)%
(1)
This is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.
Powder River Basin Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same periods in the prior year due to lower realized coal pricing, net of sales-related costs (three months, $18.6 million; nine months, $48.0 million), lower sales volumes (three months, $13.6 million; nine months, $15.4 million) and increased pricing for fuel and explosives (three months, $5.8 million; nine months, $16.5 million). The decrease was partially offset by lower costs for materials, services and repairs (three months, $9.7 million; nine months, $9.8 million) and operating leases (three months, $2.9 million; nine months, $6.8 million).
Midwestern U.S. Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same periods in the prior year as the result of increased pricing for fuel and explosives (three months, $4.3 million; nine months, $12.2 million), higher materials, services and repairs costs (nine months, $9.2 million), increased labor costs (three months, $1.9 million; nine months, $7.3 million) and unfavorable production costs (three months, $6.3 million; nine months, $6.0 million) due to heavier rainfall in the current year periods.
Western U.S. Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to higher materials, services and repairs costs ($10.8 million), partially offset by production efficiencies ($3.8 million). Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to higher materials, services and repairs costs ($22.7 million), the unfavorable impact of mine sequencing ($13.7 million), lower liquidated damages received ($7.4 million) and lower realized coal pricing, net of sales related costs ($5.6 million), partially offset by increased sales volumes ($8.7 million).


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Australian Metallurgical Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to unfavorable volume variances ($70.2 million) resulting from the longwall move during the current year period at our North Goonyella Mine, the winding down of operations at our Millennium Mine and unfavorable production costs at our North Goonyella Mine related to the longwall move ($56.8 million) and the events further described in Note 15. “Other Events” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements ($9.0 million). The decrease was partly offset by improved realized coal pricing, net of sales-related costs ($51.7 million) and improved production costs at our Metropolitan Mine ($27.6 million). Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to improved realized coal pricing, net of sales-related costs ($81.1 million), favorable production costs at our Metropolitan Mine due to an extended longwall move in the prior year ($60.1 million) and favorable volume variances ($13.4 million) resulting from the impact of Cyclone Debbie in 2017. These increases were offset by unfavorable production costs at our North Goonyella Mine resulting from the longwall move ($54.4 million) and the events noted above ($9.0 million).
Australian Thermal Mining. Segment Adjusted EBITDA increased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 as compared to the same periods in the prior year due to improved realized coal pricing, net of sales-related costs (three months, $52.6 million; nine months, $104.5 million), partially offset by unfavorable volume variances (three months, $17.7 million; nine months, $44.4 million) resulting from decreased sales and geologic and longwall production issues at our Wambo Mine which contributed to unfavorable production costs (nine months, $19.3 million).
Trading and Brokerage. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the three months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to lower realizations. Segment Adjusted EBITDA decreased during the nine months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year primarily due to losses recorded in the current period on forward financial hedging as relevant pricing decreased.
Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA. The following tables present a summary of the components of Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor Increase (Decrease)
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Adjusted EBITDA
   $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Resource management activities (1)
$21.3
 $0.4
 $20.9
 5,225 %
Selling and administrative expenses(38.6) (33.7) (4.9) (15)%
Acquisition costs related to Shoal Creek(2.5) 
 (2.5) n.m.
Corporate hedging(1.8) 7.3
 (9.1) (125)%
Other items, net (2)
4.7
 (3.0) 7.7
 257 %
Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA$(16.9) $(29.0) $12.1
 42 %
(1)
Includes gains (losses) on certain surplus coal reserve and surface land sales and property management costs and revenues.
(2)
Includes results from equity affiliates (before the impact of related changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference), costs associated with post-mining activities, certain coal royalty expenses, gains (losses) on certain asset disposals, minimum charges on certain transportation-related contracts and expenses related to our other commercial activities.


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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined Increase (Decrease)
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Adjusted EBITDA
    $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Resource management activities (1)
$42.8
 $1.6
$2.9
 $4.5
 $38.3
 851 %
Selling and administrative expenses(119.7) (68.4)(36.3) (104.7) (15.0) (14)%
Acquisition costs related to Shoal Creek(2.5) 

 
 (2.5) n.m.
Corporate hedging(6.5) 6.9
(27.6) (20.7) 14.2
 69 %
Gain on sale of interest in Dominion Terminal Associates
 
19.7
 19.7
 (19.7) (100)%
Other items, net (2)
28.5
 (0.2)(3.1) (3.3) 31.8
 964 %
Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA$(57.4) $(60.1)$(44.4) $(104.5) $47.1
 45 %
(1)
Includes gains (losses) on certain surplus coal reserve and surface land sales and property management costs and revenues.
(2)
Includes results from equity affiliates (before the impact of related changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference), costs associated with post-mining activities, certain coal royalty expenses, gains (losses) on certain asset disposals, minimum charges on certain transportation-related contracts and expenses related to our other commercial activities.
During the three months ended September 30, 2018, Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA was favorably impacted as compared to the same period in the prior year by resource management activities that included a gain recorded in connection with the sale of surplus coal resources associated with the Millennium Mine ($20.5 million) and an increase in “Other items, net” primarily related to improved Middlemount results driven by higher pricing ($3.5 million). These results were offset by a decrease in corporate hedging results for foreign currency due to realized losses in the current year as compared to the prior year, higher selling and administrative expenses related to charges for share-based compensation and project work around the industry and our portfolio and expenses related to our acquisition of the Shoal Creek Mine as discussed in Note 15. “Other Events” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2018, the increase associated with resource management activities was due to gains recorded during 2018 in connection with the sale of certain surplus land assets in Queensland’s Bowen Basin ($20.6 million) and the sale of surplus coal resources associated with the Millennium Mine ($20.5 million). The increase in “Other items, net” was attributable to improved Middlemount results as compared to the prior year driven by higher pricing and sales volumes ($13.2 million), a gain recognized on the sale of our interest in the Red Mountain Joint Venture ($7.1 million) and the impact of the accounting policy election made in connection with fresh start reporting to prospectively record amounts attributable to prior service cost and actuarial valuation changes in earnings rather than accumulated other comprehensive income and amortizing to expense ($7.1 million). The increase associated with corporate hedging results, which includes foreign currency and commodity hedging, was due to a decrease in realized losses as compared to the same period in the prior year. These increases were offset by higher selling and administrative expenses as compared to the prior year resulting from charges for share-based compensation and project work around the industry and our portfolio. In addition, during the first quarter of 2017, a $19.7 million gain was recorded in connection with the sale of our interest in Dominion Terminal Associates.


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Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations, Net of Income Taxes
The following tables present income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor (Decrease) Increase
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Income
   $ %
 (Dollars in millions)  
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
$372.1
 $411.3
 $(39.2) (10)%
Depreciation, depletion and amortization(169.6) (194.5) 24.9
 13 %
Asset retirement obligation expenses(12.4) (11.3) (1.1) (10)%
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss(49.3) 
 (49.3) n.m.
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates6.1
 3.4
 2.7
 79 %
Interest expense(38.2) (42.4) 4.2
 10 %
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 (12.9) 12.9
 100 %
Interest income10.1
 2.0
 8.1
 405 %
Unrealized losses on economic hedges(26.8) (10.8) (16.0) (148)%
Unrealized gains (losses) on non-coal trading derivative contracts0.3
 (1.7) 2.0
 118 %
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition5.4
 6.5
 (1.1) (17)%
Income tax (provision) benefit(13.8) 84.1
 (97.9) (116)%
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$83.9
 $233.7
 $(149.8) (64)%
(1)
This is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.


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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
   
 (Dollars in millions)
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
$1,105.6
 $729.1
$341.3
 $1,070.4
Depreciation, depletion and amortization(503.1) (342.8)(119.9) (462.7)
Asset retirement obligation expenses(37.9) (22.3)(14.6) (36.9)
Asset impairment
 
(30.5) (30.5)
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss(49.3) 

 
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates22.1
 7.7
5.2
 12.9
Interest expense(112.8) (83.8)(32.9) (116.7)
Loss on early debt extinguishment(2.0) (12.9)
 (12.9)
Interest income24.3
 3.5
2.7
 6.2
Reorganization items, net12.8
 
(627.2) (627.2)
Break fees related to terminated asset sales
 28.0

 28.0
Unrealized (losses) gains on economic hedges(36.3) (1.4)16.6
 15.2
Unrealized (losses) gains on non-coal trading derivative contracts(1.4) 1.5

 1.5
Coal inventory revaluation
 (67.3)
 (67.3)
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition21.5
 16.4

 16.4
Income tax (provision) benefit(31.3) 79.4
263.8
 343.2
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes$412.2
 $335.1
$(195.5) $139.6
(1)
This is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section below for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization. The following tables presenttable presents a summary of depreciation, depletion and amortization expense by segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor Increase (Decrease)
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to Income
 $ %
(Dollars in millions)  Three Months Ended Increase (Decrease) Six Months Ended (Decrease) Increase
June 30, to Income June 30, to Income
2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
(Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Seaborne Thermal Mining$(22.0) $(23.5) $1.5
 6 % $(45.2) $(42.5) $(2.7) (6)%
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining(31.1) (33.6) 2.5
 7 % (71.2) (64.9) (6.3) (10)%
Powder River Basin Mining$(46.4) $(57.4) $11.0
 19 %(36.0) (45.2) 9.2
 20 % (72.6) (96.2) 23.6
 25 %
Midwestern U.S. Mining(29.4) (38.1) 8.7
 23 %(25.4) (25.9) 0.5
 2 % (47.5) (55.8) 8.3
 15 %
Western U.S. Mining(38.9) (32.9) (6.0) (18)%(48.3) (33.6) (14.7) (44)% (97.0) (68.9) (28.1) (41)%
Australian Metallurgical Mining(31.9) (37.1) 5.2
 14 %
Australian Thermal Mining(21.4) (25.7) 4.3
 17 %
Trading and Brokerage
 (0.1) 0.1
 100 %
Corporate and Other(1.6) (3.2) 1.6
 50 %(2.6) (2.1) (0.5) (24)% (4.4) (5.2) 0.8
 15 %
Total$(169.6) $(194.5) $24.9
 13 %$(165.4) $(163.9) $(1.5) (1)% $(337.9) $(333.5) $(4.4) (1)%




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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 
 (Dollars in millions)
Powder River Basin Mining$(142.6) $(95.6)$(32.0)
Midwestern U.S. Mining(85.2) (73.4)(13.3)
Western U.S. Mining(107.8) (57.7)(23.6)
Australian Metallurgical Mining(96.8) (64.3)(20.6)
Australian Thermal Mining(63.9) (45.5)(24.0)
Trading and Brokerage(0.1) (0.1)
Corporate and Other(6.7) (6.2)(6.4)
Total$(503.1) $(342.8)$(119.9)

Additionally, the following table presents a summary of our weighted-average depletion rate per ton for active mines in each of our mining segments:
Successor SuccessorPredecessorThree Months Ended Six Months Ended
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017June 30, June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
Seaborne Thermal Mining$1.97
 $1.93
 $1.89
 $1.86
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining3.47
 1.31
 3.01
 1.00
Powder River Basin Mining$0.81
 $0.84
 $0.81
 $0.83
$0.69
0.80
 0.81
 0.81
 0.81
Midwestern U.S. Mining0.91
 0.83
 0.88
 0.78
0.61
0.82
 0.86
 0.89
 0.86
Western U.S. Mining2.37
 1.06
 2.33
 1.06
4.30
2.30
 2.17
 2.24
 2.31
Australian Metallurgical Mining0.94
 0.66
 0.98
 0.68
4.72
Australian Thermal Mining1.69
 1.73
 1.80
 1.72
2.62
Depreciation, depletion and amortization expense decreasedincreased during the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 as compared to the same periodperiods in the prior year primarily due to the acceleration of the planned closure of the Kayenta Mine (three months, $14.8 million; six months, $27.3 million) and the acquisition the Shoal Creek Mine in the fourth quarter of 2018 (three months, $14.2 million; six months, $25.5 million), partially offset by lower amortization of the fair value of certain U.S. coal supply agreements (three months, $18.2 million; six months, $39.3 million) and decreased depreciation acrossexpense at our North Goonyella Mine after the organization.
Depreciation, depletionfire due to lower sales volumes and amortization expense for the nineasset impairments (three months, ended September 30, 2018 includes depreciation expense ($196.7 million), depletion expense ($144.8 million), amortization of the fair value of certain U.S. coal supply agreements ($78.4 million) and amortization associated with our asset retirement obligation assets ($58.2$6.3 million; six months, $10.4 million).
Depreciation, depletion and amortization expense for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017 included depletion expense ($62.0 million) and depreciation expense ($48.2 million).
Asset Impairment. Refer to Note 15. “Other Events” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for information surrounding the impairment charges recorded during period January 1 through April 1, 2017.
Provision for North Goonyella Equipment Loss. A provision of $24.7 million was recorded during the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 for expected equipment losses related to the events at our North Goonyella Mine, as discussed in Note 15.16. “Other Events” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. The current year provision includes $40.2 million for the estimated costis incremental to replace leased equipmentsimilar provisions recorded during 2018 and $9.1 million related to the cost of Company-owned equipment. This provision represents the best estimate of potential loss associated with these events based on assessments made to date.
Interest Expense. Interest expense decreasedNorth Goonyella Insurance Recovery - Equipment. During the six months ended June 30, 2019, we entered into an insurance claim settlement agreement with our insurance providers related to North Goonyella equipment losses and recorded a $125.0 million insurance recovery, as discussed in Note 16. “Other Events” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. Of this amount, Adjusted EBITDA excludes an allocated amount applicable to total equipment losses recognized at the time of the insurance recovery settlement, which consisted of $24.7 million and $66.4 million recognized during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and the year ended December 31, 2018, respectively. The remaining $33.9 million, applicable to incremental costs and business interruption losses, is included in Adjusted EBITDA for the threesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019.
Changes in Deferred Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and Reserves and Amortization of Basis Difference Related to Equity Affiliates. During the year ended December 31, 2018 the Company determined that a valuation allowance on Middlemount’s net deferred tax position was no longer necessary based on recent cumulative earnings and expectation of future earnings. The prior period amount consisted of the valuation allowance reduction due to income earned by Middlemount prior to the release of the valuation allowance.
Loss on Early Debt Extinguishment. The loss on early debt extinguishment recorded during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, comparedrelated to the same period in the prior year, primarily due to lower expense for theearly repayment of principal under our Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025 as the result of principal prepayments and refinancing ($8.7 million), partially offset by increased expenses for surety bonds, letters of credit. and non-cash interest related to certain contractual arrangements ($3.8 million) and expenses related to an amendment to the indenture governing the 6.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 and the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 ($1.5 million) as discusseddescribed in Note 12.13. “Long-term Debt” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Interest expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 primarily related to the 6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022, the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025 and the Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025 ($74.5 million). For additional details on debt, refer to Note 12. “Long-term Debt” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. The remainder of the interest expense ($38.3 million) for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 related to the new surety program, additional letters of credit issued under the revolver, fees for the accounts receivable securitization program, and non-cash interest related to certain contractual arrangements.
Interest expense for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017 was impacted by our filing of the Bankruptcy Petitions, which resulted in only accruing adequate protection payments subsequent to the Petition Date to certain secured lenders and other parties in accordance with Section 502(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code.
Loss on Early Debt Extinguishment. The loss on early debt extinguishment recorded during the three months ended September 30, 2017 related to the amendment of the Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025 that was entered into on September 18, 2017. The loss on early debt extinguishment recorded during the nine months ended September 30, 2018, related to the April 11, 2018 amendment of the Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025 as described in Note 12. “Long-term Debt” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Interest Income. The increase in interest income for the three months ended September 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year, was driven by higher cash balances and the Company’s adoption of ASC Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” (ASC 606) on January 1, 2018. As a result of the adoption, the Company is prospectively required to recognize a portion of consideration received for the reimbursement of certain post-mining costs as interest income rather than revenue, due to the embedded financing element within the related contract. For additional details on the adoption of ASC 606, refer to Note 2. “Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented” and Note 3. “Revenue Recognition” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Interest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 was impacted by the same drivers as discussed above.
Reorganization Items, Net. The reorganization items recorded during the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018 were impacted by a favorable adjustment of theto our former bankruptcy claims accrual. The reorganization items recorded during the period January 1 through April 1, 2017 reflected the impact of the Plan provisions and the application of fresh start reporting and other expenses recorded in connection with our Chapter 11 Cases. Refer to Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and Note 1. “Basis of Presentation” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for further information regarding our reorganization items.
Break Fees Related to Terminated Asset Sales. During the period April 2 through September 30, 2017 we received break fees of $28.0 million related to terminated asset sales which are further described in Note 15. “Other Events” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Unrealized Gains (Losses) Gains on Economic Hedges.Unrealized gains (losses) gains primarily relate to mark-to-market activity from economic hedge activities intended to hedge future coal sales. For additional information, refer to Note 3. “Revenue Recognition”8. “Derivatives and Fair Value Measurements” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Coal Inventory Revaluation. As a part of the fresh start reporting adjustments, the book value of coal inventories was increased to reflect the estimated fair value, less costs to sell the inventories. During the period April 2 through September 30, 2017, this adjustment was fully amortized as the inventory was sold. For additional details, refer to Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
Take-or-Pay Contract-Based Intangible Recognition. Recognition. Included in the fresh start reporting adjustments were contract-based intangible liabilities for port and rail take-or-pay contracts. During the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018, and the period April 2 through September 30, 2017 the Company haswe ratably recognized these contract-based intangible liabilities. For additional details, refer to Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and Note 8.9. “Intangible Contract Assets and Liabilities” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Income Tax (Provision) BenefitProvision. The increasechanges in the income tax provision for the three and six months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 as compared to the prior year periodperiods was primarily due to benefits recordedchanges in the prior year related to refunds for U.S. net operating loss carrybacks.forecasted taxable income. The tax provisionprovisions recorded in the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2019 and 2018 waswere computed using the annual effective tax rate method and waswere comprised primarily of the expected statutory tax provision offset by foreign rate differential and changes in valuation allowances.


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The income tax benefit recorded for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017, was primarily comprised of benefits related to Predecessor deferred tax liabilities ($177.8 million), accumulated other comprehensive income ($81.5 million) and unrecognized tax benefits ($6.7 million).
Refer to Note 11.12. “Income Taxes” in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Common Stockholders
The following tables presenttable presents net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor (Decrease) Increase
Three Months Ended (Decrease) Increase Six Months Ended (Decrease) Increase
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to IncomeJune 30, to Income June 30, to Income
 $ %2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)   (Dollars in millions)  
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$83.9
 $233.7
 $(149.8) (64)%$42.9
 $120.0
 $(77.1) (64)% $176.2
 $328.3
 $(152.1) (46)%
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(4.1) (3.7) (0.4) (11)%(3.4) (3.6) 0.2
 6 % (6.8) (4.9) (1.9) (39)%
Net income79.8
 230.0
 (150.2) (65)%39.5
 116.4
 (76.9) (66)% 169.4
 323.4
 (154.0) (48)%
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends
 23.5
 (23.5) (100)%
 
 
 n.m.
 
 102.5
 (102.5) (100)%
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests8.3
 5.1
 3.2
 63 %2.4
 2.7
 (0.3) (11)% 8.1
 0.6
 7.5
 1,250 %
Net income attributable to common stockholders$71.5
 $201.4
 $(129.9) (64)%$37.1
 $113.7
 $(76.6) (67)% $161.3
 $220.3
 $(59.0) (27)%
Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  
 (Dollars in millions)
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes$412.2
 $335.1
$(195.5)
Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes(9.0) (6.4)(16.2)
Net income (loss)403.2
 328.7
(211.7)
Less: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends102.5
 138.6

Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests8.9
 8.9
4.8
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$291.8
 $181.2
$(216.5)
Loss from Discontinued Operations, Net of Income Taxes. The loss from discontinued operations for the period January 1 through April 1, 2017, primarily consisted of fresh start tax adjustments ($12.1 million) as discussed in Note 2. “Emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and Fresh Start Reporting” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock Dividends. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stockconvertible preferred stock dividends for the threesix months ended September 30, 2017 were comprised of the deemed dividends granted for the Preferred Stock shares that were converted during the period. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends for the nine months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018 were comprised of the deemed dividends granted for all remaining Preferred Stock shares of convertible preferred stock that were converted as of January 31, 2018.
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividendsincrease in net income attributable to noncontrolling interests for the six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same period April 2 through September 30, 2017 were comprisedin the prior year was due to the improved results of the deemed dividends ($135.5 million) granted for the Preferred Stock shares that were converted during the period and the first semi-annual payment of preferred dividends ($3.1 million)our majority-owned mines in which was pro-rated for the period of April 3 through April 30, 2017.there is an outside non-controlling interest.


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Diluted EPSEarnings per Share (EPS)
The following tables presenttable presents diluted EPS:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor Decrease
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017 to EPS
   $ %
Diluted EPS attributable to common stockholders:       
Income from continuing operations$0.63
 $1.49
 $(0.86) (58)%
Loss from discontinued operations(0.04) (0.02) (0.02) (100)%
Net income attributable to common stockholders$0.59
 $1.47
 $(0.88) (60)%
Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
  
Diluted EPS attributable to common stockholders:    
Income (loss) from continuing operations$2.40
 $1.37
$(10.93)
Loss from discontinued operations(0.07) (0.05)(0.88)
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders$2.33
 $1.32
$(11.81)
 Three Months Ended Decrease Six Months Ended Decrease
 June 30, to EPS June 30, to EPS
 2019 2018 $ % 2019 2018 $ %
Diluted EPS attributable to common stockholders:               
Income from continuing operations$0.37
 $0.93
 $(0.56) (60)% $1.54
 $1.76
 $(0.22) (13)%
Loss from discontinued operations(0.03) (0.03) 
  % (0.06) (0.04) (0.02) (50)%
Net income attributable to common stockholders$0.34
 $0.90
 $(0.56) (62)% $1.48
 $1.72
 $(0.24) (14)%
Diluted EPS is commensurate with the changes in results from continuing operations and discontinued operations during that period. Diluted EPS reflects weighted average diluted common shares outstanding of 120.3108.1 million and 103.1126.0 million for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and 2017,2018, respectively, and 123.1 million, 100.2109.3 million and 18.3124.6 million for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, the period April 2 through September 30, 20172019 and the period January 1 through April 1, 2017,2018, respectively.


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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as income (loss) from continuing operations before deducting net interest expense, income taxes, asset retirement obligation expenses, depreciation, depletion and amortization and reorganization items, net. Adjusted EBITDA is also adjusted for the discrete items that management excluded in analyzing each of our segment’s operating performance, as displayed in the reconciliations below.
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$83.9
 $233.7
Depreciation, depletion and amortization169.6
 194.5
Asset retirement obligation expenses12.4
 11.3
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss49.3
 
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates(6.1) (3.4)
Interest expense38.2
 42.4
Loss on early debt extinguishment
 12.9
Interest income(10.1) (2.0)
Unrealized losses on economic hedges26.8
 10.8
Unrealized (gains) losses on non-coal trading derivative contracts(0.3) 1.7
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition(5.4) (6.5)
Income tax provision (benefit)13.8
 (84.1)
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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
(Dollars in millions)June 30, June 30,
Income (loss) from continuing operations, net of income taxes$412.2
 $335.1
$(195.5) $139.6
2019 2018 2019 2018
(Dollars in millions)
Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes$42.9
 $120.0
 $176.2
 $328.3
Depreciation, depletion and amortization503.1
 342.8
119.9
 462.7
165.4
 163.9
 337.9
 333.5
Asset retirement obligation expenses37.9
 22.3
14.6
 36.9
15.3
 13.2
 29.1
 25.5
Asset impairment
 
30.5
 30.5
Provision for North Goonyella equipment loss49.3
 

 

 
 24.7
 
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates(22.1) (7.7)(5.2) (12.9)
North Goonyella insurance recovery - equipment
 
 (91.1) 
Changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowance and reserves and amortization of basis difference related to equity affiliates0.3
 (8.4) 0.3
 (16.0)
Interest expense112.8
 83.8
32.9
 116.7
36.0
 38.3
 71.8
 74.6
Loss on early debt extinguishment2.0
 12.9

 12.9

 2.0
 
 2.0
Interest income(24.3) (3.5)(2.7) (6.2)(7.2) (7.0) (15.5) (14.2)
Reorganization items, net(12.8) 
627.2
 627.2

 
 
 (12.8)
Break fees related to terminated asset sales
 (28.0)
 (28.0)
Unrealized losses (gains) on economic hedges36.3
 1.4
(16.6) (15.2)
Unrealized (gains) losses on economic hedges(22.4) 48.1
 (62.2) 9.5
Unrealized losses (gains) on non-coal trading derivative contracts1.4
 (1.5)
 (1.5)0.3
 (0.1) 0.1
 1.7
Coal inventory revaluation
 67.3

 67.3
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition(21.5) (16.4)
 (16.4)
Income tax provision (benefit)31.3
 (79.4)(263.8) (343.2)
Fresh start take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition(5.6) (7.8) (11.2) (16.1)
Income tax provision3.0
 7.4
 21.8
 17.5
Total Adjusted EBITDA$1,105.6
 $729.1
$341.3
 $1,070.4
$228.0
 $369.6
 $481.9
 $733.5
Revenues per Ton and Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton are equal to revenues by segment and Adjusted EBITDA by segment, respectively, divided by segment tons sold. Costs per Ton is equal to Revenues per Ton less Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton, and are reconciled to operating costs and expenses as follows:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor
Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 20172019 2018 2019 2018
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Operating costs and expenses$1,047.9
 $1,039.1
$858.2
 $946.5
 $1,806.6
 $2,003.7
Unrealized gains (losses) on non-coal trading derivative contracts0.3
 (1.7)
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition5.4
 6.5
Unrealized (losses) gains on non-coal trading derivative contracts(0.3) 0.1
 (0.1) (1.7)
Fresh start take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition5.6
 7.8
 11.2
 16.1
North Goonyella insurance recovery - cost recovery and business interruption
 
 (33.9) 
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost4.5
 6.6
4.8
 4.6
 9.7
 9.1
Total Reporting Segment Costs$1,058.1
 $1,050.5
$868.3
 $959.0
 $1,793.5
 $2,027.2




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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Operating costs and expenses$3,051.6
 $1,967.0
$950.2
 $2,917.2
Break fees related to terminated asset sales
 28.0

 28.0
Unrealized (losses) gains on non-coal trading derivative contracts(1.4) 1.5

 1.5
Coal inventory revaluation
 (67.3)
 (67.3)
Take-or-pay contract-based intangible recognition21.5
 16.4

 16.4
Net periodic benefit costs, excluding service cost13.6
 13.2
14.4
 27.6
Total Reporting Segment Costs$3,085.3
 $1,958.8
$964.6
 $2,923.4

The following tables presenttable presents Reporting Segment Costs by reporting segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor
 Three Months Ended September 30, 2018 Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Powder River Basin Mining$285.5
 $308.2
Midwestern U.S. Mining169.8
 158.2
Western U.S. Mining127.6
 121.2
Australian Metallurgical Mining279.6
 272.8
Australian Thermal Mining159.8
 168.0
Trading and Brokerage25.0
 16.7
Corporate and Other10.8
 5.4
Total Reporting Segment Costs$1,058.1
 $1,050.5
Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor Combined
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Powder River Basin Mining$859.8
 $588.8
$302.6
 $891.4
Midwestern U.S. Mining495.8
 306.6
143.2
 449.8
Western U.S. Mining345.0
 201.7
99.7
 301.4
Australian Metallurgical Mining838.4
 488.7
219.3
 708.0
Australian Thermal Mining459.4
 301.3
149.2
 450.5
Trading and Brokerage50.8
 27.0
6.2
 33.2
Corporate and Other36.1
 44.7
44.4
 89.1
Total Reporting Segment Costs$3,085.3
 $1,958.8
$964.6
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 Three Months Ended Six Months Ended
 June 30, June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (Dollars in millions)
Seaborne Thermal Mining$145.8
 $159.8
 $302.1
 $299.6
Seaborne Metallurgical Mining233.5
 259.0
 472.2
 558.8
Powder River Basin Mining242.4
 259.5
 493.3
 574.3
Midwestern U.S. Mining136.8
 155.5
 282.6
 326.0
Western U.S. Mining89.7
 105.7
 202.8
 217.4
Corporate and Other20.1
 19.5
 40.5
 51.1
Total Reporting Segment Costs$868.3
 $959.0
 $1,793.5
 $2,027.2
The following tables present revenues, Reporting Segment Costs, Adjusted EBITDA and tons sold by mining segment:
Three Month ComparisonSuccessor
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal MiningSeaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
(Amounts in millions, except per ton data)(Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$373.7
 $208.5
 $156.1
 $370.3
 $305.1
$220.2
 $290.9
 $282.6
 $167.5
 $142.1
Reporting Segment Costs285.5
 169.8
 127.6
 279.6
 159.8
145.8
 233.5
 242.4
 136.8
 89.7
Adjusted EBITDA88.2
 38.7
 28.5
 90.7
 145.3
74.4
 57.4
 40.2
 30.7
 52.4
Tons sold31.7
 4.9
 4.0
 2.8
 4.8
4.7
 2.1
 25.0
 3.9
 3.3
                  
Revenues per Ton$11.80
 $42.45
 $38.91
 $132.50
 $63.50
$46.41
 $138.42
 $11.33
 $42.47
 $43.73
Costs per Ton9.01
 34.57
 31.80
 100.14
 33.20
30.73
 111.12
 9.72
 34.66
 27.59
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton2.79
 7.88
 7.11
 32.36
 30.30
15.68
 27.30
 1.61
 7.81
 16.14
Successor
Three Months Ended September 30, 2017Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal MiningSeaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
(Amounts in millions, except per ton data)(Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$420.9
 $207.7
 $155.7
 $415.9
 $265.8
$267.4
 $417.5
 $321.5
 $197.5
 $139.6
Reporting Segment Costs308.2
 158.2
 121.2
 272.8
 168.0
159.8
 259.0
 259.5
 155.5
 105.7
Adjusted EBITDA112.7
 49.5
 34.5
 143.1
 97.8
107.6
 158.5
 62.0
 42.0
 33.9
Tons sold33.7
 4.9
 4.0
 3.5
 5.2
5.0
 2.9
 26.2
 4.7
 3.5
                  
Revenues per Ton$12.48
 $42.52
 $38.25
 $119.55
 $51.78
$53.68
 $143.98
 $12.24
 $42.12
 $39.87
Costs per Ton9.13
 32.39
 29.77
 78.42
 32.72
32.05
 89.37
 9.88
 33.16
 30.21
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton3.35
 10.13
 8.48
 41.13
 19.06
21.63
 54.61
 2.36
 8.96
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Nine Month ComparisonSuccessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$1,084.5
 $607.7
 $439.4
 $1,254.0
 $773.9
Reporting Segment Costs859.8
 495.8
 345.0
 838.4
 459.4
Adjusted EBITDA224.7
 111.9
 94.4
 415.6
 314.5
Tons sold90.3
 14.3
 11.2
 8.7
 13.6
          
Revenues per Ton$12.01
 $42.41
 $39.23
 $143.44
 $57.09
Costs per Ton9.52
 34.60
 30.80
 95.90
 33.89
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton2.49
 7.81
 8.43
 47.54
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 Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$471.2
 $615.4
 $569.9
 $346.6
 $297.8
Reporting Segment Costs302.1
 472.2
 493.3
 282.6
 202.8
Adjusted EBITDA169.1
 143.2
 76.6
 64.0
 95.0
Tons sold9.2
 4.4
 50.3
 8.1
 7.0
          
Revenues per Ton$51.18
 $140.45
 $11.34
 $42.56
 $42.66
Costs per Ton32.82
 107.77
 9.82
 34.70
 29.04
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton18.36
 32.68
 1.52
 7.86
 13.62
 Successor
 April 2 through September 30, 2017
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$786.3
 $402.6
 $281.1
 $703.7
 $505.0
Reporting Segment Costs588.8
 306.6
 201.7
 488.7
 301.3
Adjusted EBITDA197.5
 96.0
 79.4
 215.0
 203.7
Tons sold62.2
 9.5
 7.2
 5.5
 9.8
          
Revenues per Ton$12.65
 $42.57
 $38.54
 $128.89
 $51.65
Costs per Ton9.47
 32.42
 27.65
 89.53
 30.79
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton3.18
 10.15
 10.89
 39.36
 20.86
 Predecessor
 January 1 through April 1, 2017
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$394.3
 $193.2
 $149.7
 $328.9
 $224.8
Reporting Segment Costs302.6
 143.2
 99.7
 219.3
 149.2
Adjusted EBITDA91.7
 50.0
 50.0
 109.6
 75.6
Tons sold31.0
 4.5
 3.4
 2.2
 4.6
          
Revenues per Ton$12.70
 $42.96
 $44.68
 $150.22
 $48.65
Costs per Ton9.75
 31.84
 29.76
 100.16
 32.27
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton2.95
 11.12
 14.92
 50.06
 16.38
 Combined
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 Australian Metallurgical Mining Australian Thermal Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$1,180.6
 $595.8
 $430.8
 $1,032.6
 $729.8
Reporting Segment Costs891.4
 449.8
 301.4
 708.0
 450.5
Adjusted EBITDA289.2
 146.0
 129.4
 324.6
 279.3
Tons sold93.2
 14.0
 10.6
 7.7
 14.4
          
Revenues per Ton$12.67
 $42.69
 $40.47
 $135.03
 $50.69
Costs per Ton9.57
 32.23
 28.31
 92.57
 31.29
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton3.10
 10.46
 12.16
 42.46
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 Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
 Seaborne Thermal Mining Seaborne Metallurgical Mining Powder River Basin Mining Midwestern
U.S. Mining
 Western
U.S. Mining
 (Amounts in millions, except per ton data)
Revenues$468.8
 $883.7
 $710.8
 $399.2
 $283.3
Reporting Segment Costs299.6
 558.8
 574.3
 326.0
 217.4
Adjusted EBITDA169.2
 324.9
 136.5
 73.2
 65.9
Tons sold8.8
 5.9
 58.6
 9.4
 7.2
          
Revenues per Ton$53.57
 $148.58
 $12.12
 $42.39
 $39.40
Costs per Ton34.23
 93.96
 9.79
 34.61
 30.24
Adjusted EBITDA Margin per Ton19.34
 54.62
 2.33
 7.78
 9.16
Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less net cash used in investing activities and excludes cash outflows related to business combinations. See the table below for a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow to its most comparable measure under U.S. GAAP.
Nine Month ComparisonSuccessorPredecessor
 Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$1,260.8
 $313.7
$(813.0)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities(65.5) (34.9)15.1
Free Cash Flow$1,195.3
 $278.8
$(797.9)
 Six Months Ended
 June 30,
 2019 2018
  
Net cash provided by operating activities$377.0
 $915.4
Net cash used in investing activities(64.0) (18.0)
Add back: Amount attributable to acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine2.4
 
Free Cash Flow$315.4
 $897.4
Outlook
As part of its normal planning and forecasting process, Peabody utilizes a broad approach to develop macroeconomic assumptions for key variables, including country-level gross domestic product, industrial production, fixed asset investment and third-party inputs, driving detailed supply and demand projections for key demand centers for coal, electricity generation and steel. Specific to the U.S., the Company evaluates individual plant needs, including expected retirements, on a plant by plant basis in developing its demand models. Supply models and cost curves concentrate on major supply regions/countries that impact the regions in which the Company operates.
Our estimates involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change based on various factors as described more fully in the “Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” section contained within this Item 2.


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Our near-term outlook is intended to coincide with the next 12 to 24 months, with subsequent periods addressed in our long-term outlook.
Near-Term Outlook
Seaborne Thermal Coal. StrongCoal. Global seaborne thermal coal supply-demand dynamics remainedpricing further eased in place during the third quarter with the 6,000-specification average prompt Newcastle thermal pricing rising 13% to approximately $117 per tonne from the second quarter of 2018. At2019 due to high coal inventories and weak liquefied natural gas pricing in the same time,Atlantic region, as well as strong Indonesian and Russian supplies. As a result, the prompt API 5 5,500 qualityaverage 6000-specification Newcastle thermal productspot coal price declined approximately $6 to an average17% in the second quarter of $69 per tonne for the third quarter.
China and India continue to drive seaborne thermal demand growth with ASEAN nations also representing persistent import strength. Through September, China thermal coal imports rose 27 million tonnes, supported by an approximately 7% increase in thermal power generation that has outpaced domestic coal production growth. Through September, India thermal imports increased 20 million tonnes on strong industrial demand and coal power generation, despite an approximately 8% increase in domestic production. In addition, ASEAN thermal import demand rose 9% through September over the prior year2019 as additional new coal-fueled generation came online.
Through September, Australian thermal exports increased 2%, while lower-quality Indonesian coal exports rose 12% compared to the prior year. In addition, U.S. seabornefirst quarter average, while the API 5-spec product eased only 4% over the same period. Relative to API 2, Newcastle pricing continues to command a premium given favorable transportation advantages and sustained demand from higher-growth Asian regions. Newcastle thermal coal exports have benefitedprices are currently below the 10-year average, and prompt pricing has rebounded from the higher pricing environment, rising 13 million tonnes through August.
Seaborne Metallurgical Coal. Within metallurgical coal fundamentals, third quarter Premium HCC spot pricing continued to be favorable to historical averages and was in line with the prior quarter. Pricing reached a high of $209 per tonne during the third quarter with an average of $189 per tonne. The third-quarter index settlement price for Premium HCC was $188 per tonne compared to $170 per tonnelows experienced late in the prior year. The benchmark for low-vol PCI in the thirdsecond quarter was settled at $150 per tonne compared to the benchmark settlements of $1152019.
Year-to-date China imports are on par with 2018 levels amid increasing import controls and $127 per tonne in the prior year. In addition, the fourth quarter benchmark price for low-vol PCI has been settled at $139 per tonne.
Seaborne metallurgical coal pricing has been supported by a 5% increase in global steel production through September. India seaborne metallurgical coal demand increased 4domestic safety inspections. Year-to-date Indian imports have exceeded expectations, rising approximately 13 million tonnes, compared to the prior year through September, more than offsettingperiod, driven by strong industrial demand. At the same time, ASEAN imports increased 11 million tonnes on stronger generation and additional coal-fueled power capacity in Vietnam, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian nations.
For 2019, Peabody expects Southeast Asian nation imports to drive thermal coal demand increases. In 2018, global coal-fueled generating capacity topped 2,000 gigawatts, the highest level ever and a 2 million tonne decline62% increase since 2000, and the deployment of an additional estimated 50 gigawatts of coal-fueled generation capacity is expected in Chinese imports.2019, primarily in Asia.
Regarding seaborneSeaborne Metallurgical Coal. China metallurgical coal supply, overall growth remains limited with the greatest increases from Australia and the U.S. While Australian metallurgical coal exportimports rose 27 million tonnes year-to-date through September, lower 2017 volumes reflectJune 30, 2019, as compared to the impactsprior year period on strong steel growth and stimulus measures. Pricing has also been supported by steady India import demand and limited Australian and U.S. supply growth. Longer term, Peabody continues to expect India will lead the way in metallurgical coal demand growth.
Premium HCC spot pricing averaged $203 per tonne for the second quarter of Cyclone Debbie.2019 and was at $194 per tonne on June 30, 2019, down $5 per tonne (-3%) year-over-year. As of August 2, 2019, the spot price for Premium HCC was $160 per tonne. Premium PCI spot pricing averaged $125 per tonne for the second quarter of 2019 and was at $122 per tonne on June 30,2019, down $14 per tonne (-10%) year-over-year. As of August 2, 2019, the spot price for Premium PCI was $105 per tonne.

Peabody anticipates global steel demand growth of approximately 2% in 2019, with increases in India leading to an estimated 3 million to 6 million tonne increase in global metallurgical coal imports. Supply increases are largely expected to be sourced from Australia.

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U.S. Thermal Coal. In the U.S., coal demand has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, coal plant retirements and increased renewable generation, despite a 4% increase in total electricity generation load overdeclined 2% year-over-year through the prior year through September. Average Henry Hub gas prices fell approximately $0.20 per mmbtu through September comparedsix months ended June 30, 2019, in part due to fewer heating and cooling degree days in the demand-heavy months of January and June relative to the prior year. Overall,In addition, flooding across the U.S. persisted in the second quarter, impacting rail shipments. As a result, coal production moderated 6%, with coal declining to 24% of the generation mix. Gas generation increased its share of the generation mix to 35% as pricing reached a three-year low of $2.19 per mmBtu on the back of production and storage builds that have exceeded expectations.
For 2019, we estimate domestic U.S. coal production has declined 12 million tons year-to-date through September compareddemand by U.S. utilities to prior year levels. Lower productionbe negatively impacted by lower natural gas prices and increasedfurther coal plant retirements. U.S. thermal coal exports have reduced overall utility stockpilesin 2019 are expected to approximately 100 million tons, the lowest levels since 2005.be partially dependent on fluctuations in seaborne thermal pricing.
Long-Term Outlook
There were no significant changes to our Long-term Outlook subsequent to December 31, 2017.2018. Information regarding our Long-term Outlook is outlined in Part II. Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018.
Regulatory Update
Other than as described in the following section, there were no significant changes to our regulatory matters subsequent to December 31, 2017.2018. Information regarding our regulatory matters is outlined in Part I, Item 1. “Business” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018.


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Regulatory Matters - U.S.
Clean Water Act (CWA). The CWA of 1972 directly impacts U.S. coal mining operations by requiring effluent limitations and treatment standards for wastewater discharge from mines through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Regular monitoring, reporting and performance standards are requirements of NPDES permits that govern the discharge of water from mine-related point sources into receiving waters.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) regulates certain activities affecting navigable waters and waters of the U.S., including wetlands. Section 404 of the CWA requires mining companies to obtain Corps permits to place material in streams for the purpose of creating slurry ponds, water impoundments, refuse areas, valley fills or other mining activities.
States are empowered to develop and apply “in stream” water quality standards. These standards are subject to change and must be approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Discharges must either meet state water quality standards or be authorized through available regulatory processes such as alternate standards or variances. “In stream” standards vary from state to state. Additionally, through the CWA section 401 certification program, states have approval authority over federal permits or licenses that might result in a discharge to their waters. States consider whether the activity will comply with their water quality standards and other applicable requirements in deciding whether or not to certify the activity.
A final rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (commonly called the Waters of the United States (WOTUS Rule)), was published by the EPA and the Corps in June 2015. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed the 2015 Rule nationwide on October 9, 2015, and that stay remained in place until early 2018. Before the Sixth Circuit lifted its stay, EPA and the Corps finalized a rule, also known as the “Delay Rule,” on February 6, 2018 that amended the 2015 WOTUS Rule by specifying that the Rule does not apply until February 6, 2020. Consequently, the pre-2015 definitions of WOTUS remained in effect nationwide. However, in August, 2018 a U.S. District Court in South Carolina overturned the “Delay Rule” saying the administration had failed to offer the public a proper opportunity to comment. That put the 2015 rule in effect in 26 states, but not in the other 24 states where federal court injunctions are still in place. In September 2018, a federal district court judge in Texas granted an injunction request for three more states; Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Also that month, industry filed a motion in a Georgia district court to expand its previous injunction, which stopped implementation in 11 states, to apply nationwide. Other district courts may also consider the issue in the coming months. EPA and the Corps are still in the process of repealing the 2015 WOTUS Rule and developing a replacement rule. The agencies proposed to repeal the 2015 Rule in July 2017, but they have not yet finalized a repeal action, and the final rule is expected before the end of this year. Further, EPA and the Corps have indicated that they plan to propose a replacement definition of WOTUS, which is expected prior to the end of the year. Depending on the outcome of litigation and/or rulemaking activity, the scope of CWA authority could increase, decrease, or stay the same relative to the current, pre-2015 definitions of WOTUS. An expansion of CWA authority may impact our operations in some areas by way of additional requirements.
Clean Air Act (CAA). The CAA, enacted in 1970, and comparable state and tribal laws that regulate air emissions affect our U.S. coal mining operations both directly and indirectly.


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Direct impacts on coal mining and processing operations may occur through the CAA permitting requirements and/or emission control requirements relating to particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide, ozone and sulfur dioxide (SO2). In recent years the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted more stringent national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for PM, nitrogen oxide, ozone and SO2. It is possible that these modifications as well as future modifications to NAAQS could directly or indirectly impact our mining operations in a manner that includes, but is not limited to, designating new nonattainment areas or expanding existing nonattainment areas, serving as a basis for changes in vehicle emission standards or prompting additional local control measures pursuant to state implementation plans required to address revised NAAQS.
In 2009, the EPA adopted revised rules to add more stringent PM emissions limits for coal preparation and processing plants constructed or modified after April 28, 2008. The PM NAAQS was thereafter revised and made more stringent in 2012. In 2015, the EPA issued a final rule setting the ozone NAAQS at 70 parts per billion (ppb).ppb. (80 Fed. Reg. 65,292, (Oct. 25, 2015)). This final rule has been challenged in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit), however, the case had been held in abeyance pending the EPA’s review of the final rule. In August 2018, the EPA said it would continue with the rule, meaning the lawsuit was revived and oral arguments are likely this fall.were heard in the D.C. Circuit in December 2018.
The EPA is additionally considering revisions to the 2015 PM NAAQS as part of the periodic review process required by the CAA, with any revisions to the standards projected for late 2020, the same timeframe as it contemplates possible revisions for the 2015 ozone NAAQS. More stringent PM or ozone standards would require new state implementation plans to be developed and filed with the EPA and may trigger additional control technology for mining equipment or result in additional challenges to permitting and expansion efforts. This could also be the case with respect to the implementation for other NAAQS for nitrogen oxide and SO2. although the EPA promulgated a final rule on March 18, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 9866) that retains, without revision, the existing NAAQS for SO2 of 75 ppb averaged over an hour.
The CAA also indirectly, but significantly affects the U.S. coal industry by extensively regulating the air emissions of SO2, nitrogen oxides, mercury, PM and other substances emitted by coal-fueled electricity generating plants, imposing more capital and operating costs on such facilities. In addition, other CAA programs may require further emission reductions to address the interstate transport of air pollution or regional haze. The air emissions programs that may affect our operations, directly or indirectly, include, but are not limited to, the Acid Rain Program, interstate transport rules such as the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) and the CSAPR Update Rule, New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) emissions limits for Hazardous Air Pollutants, the Regional Haze program and source permitting programs, including requirements related to New Source Review.
In addition, since 2011, the EPA has required underground coal mines to report on their greenhouse gas emissions. Regulations regarding reporting requirements for underground coal mines were updated in 2016 and now include the ability to cease reporting if mines are abandoned and sealed. At present, however, the EPA does not directly regulate such emissions.
Final Rule Regulating Carbon DioxideEPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired EGUsElectricity Utility Generating Units (EGUs). On October 23, 2015, the EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register regulating CO2greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired EGUs under section 111(d) of the CAA (80 Fed. Reg. 64,662 (Oct. 23, 2015)). The rule (known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP))or CPP) establishes emission guidelines for states to follow in developing plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired EGUs. These final guidelines requireThe CPP required that the states individually or collectively create systems that would reduce carbon emissions from any EGU located within their borders by 28% in 2025 and 32% in 2030 (compared with a 2005 baseline).
Following Federal Register publication, 39 separate petitions for review of the CPP by approximately 157 entities were filed in the D.C. Circuit.U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit). The petitions reflect challenges by 27 states and governmental entities, as well as challenges by utilities, industry groups, trade associations, coal companies and other entities. The lawsuits were consolidated with the case filed by West Virginia and Texas (in which other states have also joined). (D.C. Cir. No. 15-1363). On October 29, 2015, we filed a motion to intervene in the case filed by West Virginia and Texas, in support of the petitioning states. The motion was granted on January 11, 2016. Numerous states and cities haveother entities also been allowed to interveneintervened in support of the EPA.


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On February 9, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a motion to stay implementation of the CPP until itsthe legal challenges are resolved. Thereafter, oral arguments in the case were heard in the D.C. Circuit sitting en banc by ten active D.C. Circuit judges, but to date, the D.C. Circuit has not issued an opinion.banc. On April 28, 2017, the D.C. Circuit granted athe EPA’s motion by the EPA to hold the case in abeyance for 60 days while the Agencyagency reconsidered the rule. The D.C. Circuit case has renewed thebeen in abeyance several times, but the most recent abeyance expired on August 27, 2018. The D.C. Circuit is considering filings by the EPA and the petitioners that ask it to issue an additional abeyance over the opposition of some states and their supporters that asked the court to issue a decision on the merits.since, so no opinion has been issued.
In October 2017, the EPA proposed to change its legal interpretation of CAA section 111(d),repeal the authority that the Agency relied on for the 2015 CPP. (82 Fed. Reg. 48,035 (Oct. 16, 2017)). If this proposed reinterpretation is finalized byIn August 2018, the EPA issued a proposed rule to replace the CPP, would be repealed.


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The EPA relied on the proposed reinterpretation until August 2018, when it proposed the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) Rule, which proposes to replaceRule. (83 Fed. Reg. 44,746 (August 31, 2018)). On June 19, 2019, the EPA issued a combined package that finalizes the CPP with a system where states will developrepeal rule as well as the replacement rule, ACE. Repeal of the Clean Power Plan; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Electric Utility Generating Units; Revisions to Emission Guidelines Implementing Regulations, EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355.
The final ACE rule sets emissions reduction plansguidelines for greenhouse gas emissions from existing EGUs based on using Best System of Emission Reduction (BSER) measures, which are essentially efficiency heat rate improvements as “Best System of Emission Reduction” measures. The EPA’s final rule also revises the CAA Section 111(d) regulations to give the states greater flexibility on the content and timing of their state plans. Proposed revisions to the EPA will approve the state plans if they use EPA-approved candidate technologies. Changes inregulations under the New Source Review (NSR) program that were part of the ACE proposal have now been separated, and will be issued in a separate final rule later this year.
Based on the EPA’s final rules repealing and replacing the CPP, petitioners in the D.C. Circuit matter seeking review of CPP, including Peabody, filed a motion to dismiss. In addition, it is expected new litigation will be filed regarding ACE, as well as the CPP repeal action. Petitions for judicial review of the rules must be filed in the D.C. Circuit within 60 days from the date the rules are noticed in the Federal Register. (42 U.S.C. § 7607). As of this writing, the final rules have not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) and CSAPR Update Rule. On July 6, 2011, the EPA finalized the CSAPR, which requires the District of Columbia and 27 states from Texas eastward (not including the New England states or Delaware) to reduce power plant emissions that cross state lines and significantly contribute to ozone and/or fine particle pollution in other states. Following litigation in the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court, the first phase of the nitrogen oxide and SO2 emissions reductions required by CSAPR commenced in January 2015; further reductions of both pollutants in the second phase of CSAPR became effective in January 2017. The EPA subsequently revised CSAPR requirements for the state of Texas to remove that state from second phase requirements regarding SO2 (82 Fed. Reg. 45,481 (Sept. 29, 2017)).
On October 26, 2016, the EPA promulgated the CSAPR Update Rule to address implementation of the 2008 ozone national air quality standards. This rule imposed further reductions in nitrogen oxides in 2017 in 22 states subject to CSAPR. Several states and utilities as well as agricultural and industry groups have filed petitions for review of the CSAPR Update Rule in the D.C. Circuit. Other states and interest groups filed to intervene on behalf of the EPA; the petitions were then consolidated. D.C. Cir. No. 16-1406. Oral argument was held in October 2018 and a decision is pending.
In the meantime, on December 6, 2018, the EPA issued a final determination that the existing CSAPR Update fully addresses the CAA’s “good neighbor” requirements for 20 states with respect to the 2008 ground-level ozone standard. The final rule determines that 2023 is an appropriate future analytic year to evaluate further good neighbor requirements. As a result, these 20 states are not expected to contribute significantly to nonattainment or interfere with maintenance of the NAAQS in any other state. With this determination, the EPA has no obligation to establish additional requirements for sources in these states to further reduce transported ozone pollution under the 2008 ozone NAAQS. In addition, the covered states do not need to submit state implementation plans (SIPs) that would establish additional requirements beyond the existing CSAPR Update. This determination has been challenged in the D.C. Circuit (No. 19-1019). Oral argument has been scheduled for September 2019.
Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS). The EPA published the final MATS rule in the Federal Register on February 16, 2012. The MATS rule revised the NSPS for nitrogen oxides, SO2 and PM for new and modified coal-fueled electricity generating plants, and imposed MACT emission limits on hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from new and existing coal-fueled and oil-fueled electric generating plants. MACT standards limit emissions of mercury, acid gas HAPs, non-mercury HAP metals and organic HAPs. The rule provided three years for compliance with MACT standards and a possible fourth year if a state permitting agency determined that such was necessary for the installation of controls.


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Following issuance of the final rule, numerous petitions for review were filed. The D.C. Circuit upheld the NSPS portion of the rulemaking in a unanimous decision on March 11, 2014, and upheld the limits on HAPs against all challenges on April 15, 2014, in a two-to-one decision. Industry groups and a number of states filed and were granted review of the D.C. Circuit decision in the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 29, 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court held that the EPA interpreted the CAA unreasonably when it deemed cost irrelevant to the decision to regulate HAPs from power plants. The court reversed the D.C. Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings. On December 1, 2015, in response to the court’s decision the EPA published a proposed supplemental finding in the Federal Register that consideration of costs does not alter the EPA’s previous determination regarding the control of HAPs in the MATS rule. On December 15, 2015, the D.C. Circuit issued an order providing that the rule will remain in effect while the EPA responds to the U.S. Supreme Court decision.
On April 14, 2016, the EPA issued a final supplemental finding that largely tracked its proposed finding. Several states, companies and industry groups challenged that supplemental finding in the D.C. Circuit in separate petitions for review, which were subsequently consolidated (D.C. Cir. No. 116-1127). Several states and environmental groups also filed as intervenors for the respondent EPA. Although briefing in this litigation has concluded, the case remains in abeyance.
On December 27, 2018, the EPA issued a proposed revised Supplemental Cost Finding for the MATS rule that would revoke the determination that regulating HAPs from coal-fired power plants is “appropriate and necessary” under Section 112(n)(1)(A) of the CAA. The finding was based on an EPA assessment that health and environmental benefits from the MATS rule that are not directly related to mercury pollution should not be included in the benefit portion of the analysis. In the new proposed cost-benefit analysis, the EPA found the costs “grossly outweigh” any possible benefits. The comment period for this proposed rule has now closed, and the final rule is expected in November 2019.
Clean Water Act (CWA). The CWA of 1972 directly impacts U.S. coal mining operations by requiring effluent limitations and treatment standards for wastewater discharge from mines through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Regular monitoring, reporting and performance standards are requirements of NPDES permits that govern the discharge of water from mine-related point sources into receiving waters.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) regulates certain activities affecting navigable waters and waters of the U.S., including wetlands. Section 404 of the CWA requires mining companies to obtain Corps permits to place material in streams for the purpose of creating slurry ponds, water impoundments, refuse areas, valley fills or other mining activities.
States are empowered to develop and apply “in stream” water quality standards. These standards are subject to change and must be approved by the EPA. Discharges must either meet state water quality standards or be authorized through available regulatory processes such as alternate standards or variances. “In stream” standards vary from state to state. Additionally, through the CWA section 401 certification program, states have approval authority over federal permits or licenses that might result in a discharge to their waters. States consider whether the activity will comply with their water quality standards and other applicable requirements in deciding whether or not to certify the activity.
A final rule defining the scope of waters protected under the CWA (commonly called the Waters of the United States (WOTUS Rule)), was published by the EPA and the Corps in June 2015. As a result of litigation in numerous federal courts, the 2015 rule is currently in effect in 23 states and at least part of New Mexico. The pre-2015 rule is in effect in 26 states and perhaps certain counties in New Mexico because several district courts have preliminarily enjoined the 2015 rule, and those preliminary injunctions remain in effect pending the outcome of litigation on the merits of the 2015 rule. The EPA and the Corps are still in the process of repealing the 2015 WOTUS Rule and developing a replacement rule. The agencies proposed to allow efficiency improvementsrepeal the 2015 Rule in July 2017, but they have not yet finalized a repeal action. A final rule is expected in late summer of 2019. Further, the EPA and the Corps issued a proposed rule in December 2018 offering a replacement definition of WOTUS. The proposal would remove federal protections for streams that flow only after rain or snowfall, as well as wetlands that do not have certain surface water connections to be made without triggering NSR requirements. If adopted, ACE will provide states with the flexibility to regulate on a plant-by-plant basis with a focus on coal-fired EGUs. Public commentslarger waterways. A public hearing on the rule was held in late February 2019. The public comment period on the proposed rule closed on April 15, 2019. Depending on the outcome of litigation and/or rulemaking activity, the scope of CWA authority could increase, decrease, or stay the same relative to the current, pre-2015 definitions of WOTUS, which could impact our operations in some areas.
Effluent Limitations Guidelines for the Steam Electric Power Generating Industry. On September 30, 2015, the EPA published a final rule setting new or additional requirements for various wastewater discharges from steam electric power plants. The rule set zero discharge requirements for some waste streams, as well as new, more stringent limits for arsenic, mercury, selenium and nitrogen applicable to certain other waste streams. On April 12, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with environmental groups that the portions of the rule regulating legacy wastewater and residual combustion leachate are due October 31, 2018, andunlawful. The Court vacated those portions of the rule. Separately, the EPA is expectedreconsidering the portions of the rule regulating wastewater associated with flue gas desulfurization and bottom ash transport. The EPA expects to propose revisions to the 2015 rule in mid-2019, and it hopes to finalize any changes in 2020. The effluent limitations guidelines will significantly increase costs for many coal-fired steam electric power plants.


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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA, which was enacted in 1976, affects U.S. coal mining operations by establishing “cradle to grave” requirements for the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes. Typically, the only hazardous wastes generated at a mine site are those from products used in vehicles and for machinery maintenance. Coal mine wastes, such as overburden and coal cleaning wastes, are not considered hazardous wastes under RCRA.
Subtitle C of RCRA exempted fossil fuel combustion wastes from hazardous waste regulation until the EPA completed a report to Congress and made a determination on whether the wastes should be regulated as hazardous. On December 19, 2014, the EPA announced the final rule on coal combustion residuals (CCR or coal ash). As finalized, the rule incontinues the first halfexemption of 2019. Litigation may be initiated, however,CCR from regulation as a hazardous waste, but does impose new requirements at existing CCR surface impoundments and the final timeline may shift.
Federal Coal Leasing Moratorium. President Trump’s Executive Order on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth (EI Order) signed on March 28, 2017, lifted the Department of Interior’s federal coal leasing moratorium and rescinded guidance on the inclusion of social cost of carbon in federal rulemaking. Following the EI Order, the Interior Secretary issued Order 3349 ending the federal coal leasing moratorium. Environmental groups took the issue to court and in September 2018, Wyoming and Montana opposed the suits in court and defended against the freeze possibly being reinstated.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA, signed into law in 1970, requires federal agencies to review the environmental impacts of their decisions and issue either an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement. We must provide information to agencies when we propose actionslandfills that will need to be under the authority of the federal government. The NEPA process involves public participation and can involve lengthy timeframes. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in June 2018 seeking comment onimplemented over a number of ways to streamlinedifferent time-frames in the coming months and improveyears, as well as at new surface impoundments and landfills. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the NEPA process.D.C. Circuit held that certain provisions of the EPA’s CCR rule were not sufficiently protective, and it invalidated those provisions. The comment period closed in August 2018. ItEPA is unclear how far reaching the changes will be and if they will be able to withstand expected court challenges.
Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA of 1973 and counterpart state legislation is intended to protect species whose populations allow for categorization as either endangered or threatened. Changes in listings or requirements under these regulations could have a material adverse effect on our costs or our ability to mine some of our properties in accordance with our current mining plans. The Interior Department issued three proposed rules in August 2018 aiming to streamline and update the ESA.
Wyoming Land Quality Division Self-Bonding Rules. On August 20, 2018, the Wyoming Land Quality Division, through the Land Quality Advisory Board, offered for public comment proposedalso weighing changes to self-bonding rules relatedother aspects of its rule. The EPA expects to reclamation obligations. The proposal included requiring thatissue final revisions to the self-bonding guarantor berule at the ultimate parent company and thatend of 2019 or in 2020. Generally EPA-imposed requirements will increase the maximum amountcost of bonding be limited to 75% ofCCR management, but not as much as if the company’s calculated bond amount. Additionally,rule had regulated CCR as hazardous. This EPA initiative is separate from the proposal required the self-bonding party to qualify using ratings issued by nationally recognized credit rating services, such as the Moody’s Investor Service or Standard and Poor’s Corporation. This requirement would replace the current qualifying tests using a bonding party’s audited financial statements.
The Company currently meets all its bonding obligations in Wyoming through the use of commercial surety bonds. If the proposed rule is adopted, the Company would not qualify for self-bonding based on its current credit rating. The proposed rule was approved by the Wyoming Land Quality Advisory Board on September 19, 2018, and will now be considered by the Environmental Quality Council for formal rulemaking. OSMRE CCR rulemaking mentioned above.
Regulatory Matters - Australia
Occupational HealthMining Tenements and Safety. State legislation requires us to provide and maintainEnvironmental. In February 2019, a safe workplace by providing safe systems of work, safety equipment and appropriate information, instruction, training and supervision. In recognitiondecision of the specialized natureNew South Wales Land and Environment Court (LEC) refused planning approval for a non-Peabody coal mining project (Gloucester Resources Limited v Minister for Planning). That approval was refused for other reasons but the judge in that case did discuss downstream greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the consumption of coal to be mined under the proposed project. Such emissions are often raised as a ground of objection to Australian mining projects, including Peabody mining projects. However, to date no such objections have prevented a project from being approved and there has been a subsequent LEC decision in which the approval of a coal mining project was confirmed after such emissions had been considered by the relevant authority.
Queensland Reclamation. The Environmental Protection Act 1994 (EP Act) is administered by the Department of Environment and Science which authorizes environmentally relevant activities such as mining activities relating to a mining lease through an Environmental Authority (EA). Environmental protection and reclamation activities are regulated by conditions in the EA, including the requirement for the submission of a plan of operations (PO) prior to the commencement of operations. All mining operations must be carried out in accordance with the PO which describes site activities and the progress toward environmental and rehabilitation outcomes and are updated on a regular basis or if mine plans change. The mines submit an annual return reporting on their EA compliance including reclamation performance.
As a condition of the EA, bonding requirements are calculated to determine the amount of bonding required to cover the cost of reclamation based on the extent of disturbance during the PO period.
On November 19, 2018, the Queensland government passed the Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Act 2018 providing for a new financial assurance (FA) framework and new progressive rehabilitation requirements. The new FA framework creates a pooled fund covering most mines and most of the total industry liability, plus other options for providing FA if not part of the pooled fund (for example, allowing insurance bonds or cash). The percentage rate of the total rehabilitation cost payable into the pooled fund will take into account the financial strength of the holder of the EA for the mine and the project strength of the mine. The total rehabilitation cost is determined using an updated rehabilitation cost calculator, which no longer provides for discounting. The commencement date for the new FA framework is April 1, 2019 and there will be a transitional period during which the Company will move each mine in Queensland into the new FA framework.
The new progressive rehabilitation requirements will commence on or by November 1, 2019 and will require each mine, within a three-year transition period, to establish a schedule of rehabilitation milestones covering the life of the mine, and any significant changes to the timing of rehabilitation will require regulatory approval. If there is to remain an area within the mine that does not have a post-mining land use (referred to as a non-use management area or NUMA) then each such NUMA will need to pass a public interest evaluation test as part of the approval process. An example of a NUMA is the void that remains after open-cut mining activities have been completed. Under the legislation, each current mine is exempt from the requirement to justify its NUMAs to the extent that its current approvals provide for such areas. The Company is of the view that there will not be a need to seek any further regulatory approvals for any of the NUMAs at any of its Queensland mines.


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Federal Reclamation. In February 2017, the Australian Senate established a Committee of Inquiry into the rehabilitation of mining and mining activities, specific occupational health and safety obligations have been mandated under state legislation specificresources projects as it relates to the coal mining industry. There are some differences in the application and detail of the laws, and mining operators, directors, officers and certain other employees are all subject to the obligations under this legislation.
A small number of coal mine workers in Queensland and New South Wales have been diagnosed with coal worker’s pneumoconiosis (CWP, also known as black lung) following decades of assumed eradication of the disease. This has led the Queensland government to sponsor review of the system of screening coal mine workersCommonwealth responsibilities, for the disease with a view to improving early detection. The Queensland government has instituted increased reporting requirements for dust monitoring results, broader coal mine worker health assessment requirements and voluntary retirement examinations for coal mine workers to be arranged by the relevant employer and further reform may follow. Peabody has undertaken a review of its practices and offered its Queensland workers the opportunity for additional CWP screening.


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The Queensland government held a Parliamentary inquiry into the re-emergence of CWP in the State which included public hearings with appearances by representatives of the coal mining industry, including us, coal mine workers, the Department of Natural Resources and others. The Queensland Parliamentary Committee conducting the inquiry issued its final report on May 29, 2017. In finding that it is highly unlikely CWP was ever eradicated in Queensland, the Committee made 68 recommendations to ensure the safety and health of mine workers. These include an immediate reduction to the occupational exposure limit for respirable coal dust equivalent to 1.5mg/m3 for coal dust and 0.05 mg/m3 for silica and the establishment of a new and independent Mine Safety Authority to be funded by a dedicated proportion of coal and mineral royalties and overseeing the Mines Safety Inspectorate.
On August 23, 2017, the Queensland Parliament passed the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation (Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2017, which amends the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 by establishing a medical examination process for retired or former coal workers with suspected CWP, introducing an additional lump sum compensation for workers with CWP, and clarifying that a worker with CWP can access further workers’ compensation entitlements if they experience disease progression.
On August 24, 2017, the Queensland Parliamentary Committee released a report containing a draft of the Mine Safety and Health Authority Bill 2017, which proposes to establish the Mine Safety Authority foreshadowed in the Committee’s recommendations released in May 2017. The draft bill has been referred to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for review.
On September 7, 2017, the Queensland Parliament introduced a bill to amend legislation which, if passed, would increase civil penalties for mining companies breaching their obligationsexample, under the Coal Mining SafetyEnvironment Protection and HealthBiodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The proposed amendments contained in the Mines Legislation (Resources Safety) Amendment Bill (MLA Bill) would also give the Chief Executive of the Department of Natural Resources and Mining new powers to suspend or cancel an individual’s statutory certificate of competency and issue site senior executives notices if they fail to meetCommittee released their safety and health obligations. Higher levels of competency for the statutory position of ventilation officer at underground mines will also be required if the legislation is passed.
The MLA Bill lapsed on October 29, 2017 when a Queensland state election was called. However,report on March 20, 201818, 2019. The Committee was unable to reach unanimous agreement on a set of recommendations. It is unclear the MLA Bill was re-introducedextent to Parliament andwhich the legislative amendments are expected to commence later in 2018.report will impact policy reform at a federal government level.
Sydney Water Catchment Areas. TheAreas. In November 2017, the New South Wales government has commissionedestablished an independent expert panel (Panel) to advise the Department of Planning and Environment on the impact of underground mining activities in Sydney’s water catchment areas. This area includesareas, including at Peabody’s Metropolitan Mine. The panel is duePanel issued an initial report to issue an interim reportthe government in November 2018, with a final report to follow inwhich was released by the government on December 20, 2018. The panel has been tasked with (i) undertaking an initial review and report on specific coalonly concerns mining activities at thetwo mines, Peabody’s Metropolitan Mine and a competitor’s Dendrobium coal minesMine. A final report is currently expected to be issued in the Greater Sydney Water Catchment Special Areas; (ii) undertakinglast quarter of 2019, which will cover mining activities and effects across the catchment as a review of current coal mining in the Greater Sydney Water Catchment Special Areaswhole, with a particular focus on risks to the quantity of water available, the environmental consequences for swamps and the issue of cumulative impacts, including with respect toimpacts.
The Panel’s initial report acknowledges the Russell Vale and Wongawilli coal mines as well asmajor effort at the Metropolitan and Dendrobium coal mines;Mines over the last decade to employ best practice modeling and (iii) providing adviceassessment methods undertaken by suitable experts, while recommending continued rigorous monitoring and impact assessment in order to build on the knowledge base regarding mining-induced subsidence and its impacts on groundwater and surface water. The initial report endorses the government taking an incremental approach to mining approvals that provides for considering existing and emerging information and knowledge gaps. The latest extraction plans for the Metropolitan Mine are progressing on an incremental basis and Peabody continues to conduct robust monitoring, data collection and reporting and has been actively consulting with the government on Metropolitan’s approval processes and mine design to ensure that operational impacts are appropriately managed and minimized as requiredfar as possible.
On March 15, 2019, Peabody provided a submission to the Department of Planning and Environment on mining activities in the Greater Sydney Water Catchment Special Areas, including with respectPanel which included a formal response to the Russell Vale and Wongawilli coal minesinitial report as well as the Metropolitan and Dendrobium coal mines.
Mining Rehabilitation (Reclamation). Mine reclamation is regulated by state specific legislation. As a condition of approvalfurther issues for mining operations, companies are required to progressively reclaim mined land and provide appropriate bonding to the relevant state government as a safeguard to cover the costs of reclamation in circumstances where mine operators are unable to do so. Self-bonding is not permitted. Our mines provide financial assurance to the relevant authorities which is calculated in accordance with current regulatory requirements. This financial assurance is in the form of cash, surety bonds or bank guarantees which are supported by a combination of cash collateral, deeds of indemnity and guarantee and letters of credit issued under our credit facility and accounts receivable securitization program. We operate in both the Queensland and New South Wales state jurisdictions.


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On February 15, 2018, the Queensland Government re-introduced the Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Bill 2018 (MERFP Bill) to Parliament, which contained proposed legislation to give effect to certain policy reforms, including a remodeled financial assurance (FA) framework that takes into account the financial strength of the Environmental Authority holder and the risk level of the mine, a state-wide pooled FA fund covering most mines and most of the total industry liability, discontinuation of prior discounting of FA requirements, other options for providing FA for those mines that are not part of the pooled FA fund (for example, allowing insurance bonds or cash), updated rehabilitation cost calculations, and regular monitoring and reporting measures for progressive mine rehabilitation. In June 2018, the government released draft regulations and a number of guidelines on the operation of certain aspects of the proposed new law. Peabody has made submissions to the governmentconsideration as part of the consultation process for these draft regulations and guidelines and will continue to assess the impact of the proposed FA framework and progressive rehabilitation and closure planning requirements on its business, including the extent of retrospective protection. It is expected that the MERFP Bill will be enacted and commence in late 2018 or early 2019 with a three-year transition period.
Planning and Environment. Effective from March 1, 2018, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) was amended to introduce a number of changes to planning and environment laws in New South Wales. One of these changes was to revoke a process for modifying development approvals under section 75W of the EPA Act. As a result, new development approvals will needPanel’s final report due to be obtainedreleased in lieuthe last quarter of modification of existing approvals, which could take additional time to achieve. Peabody and other mining companies will be required to comply with this in respect of future development approvals in New South Wales. On June 29, 2018, the Environmental Planning and Assessment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2018 became effective. The changes include further extending an existing transitional provision dealing with modifications of previously approved Part 3A projects that relate to substantially the same development as last modified, to proposed modifications that involve minimal environmental impact or modification of consents granted by the Land and Environment Court.2019.
National Energy Guarantee. In October 2017, the Australian Federal Government released a plan aimed at delivering an affordable and reliable energy system that meets Australia’s international commitments to emissions reduction. The plan was formerly referred to as the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). Following the outcome of the Federal Election in May 2019, the Federal Coalition Government has confirmed it will not revive the NEG policy. Instead, the Government will pursue its new energy and was aimed at changingclimate change policy, announced before the National Electricity Market and associated legislative framework.election, which includes a $2 billion Australian dollars investment in projects to bring down Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. The NEG was abandoned in September 2018.Climate Solutions Fund is an extension of the former Emissions Reduction Fund. The governmentGovernment has confirmed that it remains committed to meeting Australia’s Paris Agreement targets but that the focus of energy policy will be on driving down electricity prices. The opposition party has indicated that it will adopt a NEG-style energy policy if it wins the next Federal election.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Overview
Our primary sourcessource of cash areis proceeds from the sale of our coal production to customers. We have also generated cash from the sale of non-strategic assets, including coal reserves and surface lands, borrowings under our credit facilities and, from time to time, the issuance of securities. Our primary uses of cash include the cash costs of coal production, capital expenditures, coal reserve lease and royalty payments, debt service costs, capital and operating lease payments, postretirement plans, take-or-pay obligations, post-mining retirement obligations, and selling and administrative expenses. We have also used cash for dividends and share repurchases. We believe that our capital structure will allowallows us to satisfy our working capital requirements and fund capital expenditures and debt-service obligations with cash generated from operations and cash on hand.
Any future determinations to return capital to stockholders, such as dividends or share repurchases (excluding repurchases authorized under the Repurchase Program described in “Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds” in Part II, Item 2 of this report), will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend on a variety of factors, including the restrictions set forth under our various debt obligations,agreements, our net income or other sources of cash, liquidity position and potential alternative uses of cash, such as internal development projects or acquisitions, as well as economic conditions and expected future financial results. Our ability to declare dividends or repurchase shares in the future will depend on our future financial performance, which in turn depends on the successful implementation of our strategy and on financial, competitive, regulatory, technical and other factors, general economic conditions, demand for and selling prices of coal and other factors specific to our industry, many of which are beyond our control.




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Total Indebtedness. Our total indebtedness as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 consisted of the following:
 September 30, 2018 December 31, 2017
 (Dollars in millions)
6.000% Senior Secured Notes due March 2022$500.0
 $500.0
6.375% Senior Secured Notes due March 2025500.0
 500.0
Senior Secured Term Loan due 2025, net of original issue discount397.0
 444.2
Capital lease and other obligations51.1
 76.0
Less: Debt issuance costs(71.9) (59.4)
 1,376.2
 1,460.8
Less: Current portion of long-term debt42.0
 42.1
Long-term debt$1,334.2
 $1,418.7
Refer to Note 12. “Long-term Debt” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for further information regarding our indebtedness.
Liquidity
As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, our available liquidity was $1,694.6$1,201.9 million which was comprised of cash and cash equivalents and availability under our revolver and accounts receivable securitization program as described below. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, our cash balances totaled $1,371.0$853.0 million, including approximately $973.3$303 million held by U.S. subsidiaries, $385.9$527 million held by Australian subsidiaries and the remaining balance held by other foreign subsidiaries in accounts predominantly domiciled in the U.S. A significant majority of the cash held by our foreign subsidiaries is denominated in U.S. dollars. This cash is generally used to support non-U.S. liquidity needs, including capital and operating expenditures in Australia and the foreign operations of our Trading and Brokerage segment. During the nine months ended SeptemberAustralia. Subsequent to June 30, 2018,2019, we repatriated to the U.S. approximately $1.1 billion$420 million previously held by foreign subsidiaries. If we repatriate additional foreign-held cash in the future, we do not expect restrictions or potential taxes to have a material effect on our overall liquidity.
During the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018, collateral balances2019, we paid dividends of $323.1$229.3 million, related primarily to reclamation assuranceincluding $200 million for our Australian mines,a supplemental dividend, and various port, rail and other contract performance requirements in Australia were returned to the Company as a result of implementing third-party surety bonding in Australia.made stock repurchases totaling $156.0 million.
Our ability to maintain adequate liquidity depends on the successful operation of our business and appropriate management of operating expenses and capital spending. Our anticipated liquidity needs are highly sensitive to changes in each of these and other factors.
The Senior Notes and Credit AgreementDebt Financing
As described in Note 12.13. “Long-term Debt” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, onduring 2017, we entered into an indenture related to the Effective Date, the proceeds from theissuance of $500.0 million of 6.000% Senior Secured Notessenior secured notes due March 2022 and the$500.0 million of 6.375% Senior Secured Notessenior secured notes due March 2025 (collectively, the Senior Notes) and the Senior Secured Term Loan under the Credit Agreement (the Credit Agreement) were used to repay the Predecessor company first lien obligations. The proceeds from the Senior Notes and the Senior Secured Term Loan, net of debt issuance costs and an original issue discount, as applicable, were $950.5 million and $912.7 million, respectively.
Since entering into the Credit Agreement, we have repaid $553.0 million of the original $950.0 million loan principal on the Senior Secured Term Loan through September 30, 2018 in various installments. The Credit Agreement has been amended at various dates since its inception primarily to (i) lower the2025. We make semi-annual interest rate on the Senior Secured Term Loan from LIBOR plus 4.50% per annum with a 1.00% LIBOR floor to LIBOR plus 2.75% with no floor, (ii) extend the maturity of the Senior Secured Term Loan by three years to 2025, (iii) allow for an incremental revolving credit facility and one or more incremental term loans in an aggregate principal amount of up to $350.0 million plus additional amounts so long as the Company maintains compliance with the Total Leverage Ratio, as defined in the Credit Agreement, (iv) make available an additional restricted payment basket that permits additional repurchases, dividends or other distributions with respect to our Common and Preferred Stock in an aggregate amount up to $450.0 million so long as our Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, as defined in the Credit Agreement, would not exceed 2.00:1.00 on a pro forma basis, and (v) eliminate the previous capital expenditure restriction covenants on both the Senior Secured Term Loan and the Revolver (as defined below).


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Interest payments on the Senior Notes are scheduled to occursenior notes each year on March 31 and September 30 until maturity. We may redeem the 6.000% Senior Secured Notes beginning in 2019Also during 2017, we entered into a credit agreement and the 6.375% Senior Secured Notes beginning in 2020, in whole or in part,related term loan under which we originally borrowed $950.0 million and subject to periodically decreasing redemption premiums,have repaid $555.0 million through maturity. We may also redeem some or allJune 30, 2019. The term loan requires quarterly principal payments of the Senior Notes by means of a tender offer or open market repurchases.
The Senior Secured Term Loan principal is payable in quarterly installments$1.0 million and periodic interest payments, currently at LIBOR plus accrued interest2.75%, through December 2024 with the remaining balance due in March 2025. The loan principal is voluntarily prepayable at 101% of the principal amount repaid if voluntarily prepaid prior to October 2018 (subject to certain exceptions, including prepayments made with internally generated cash) and is voluntarily prepayable at any time thereafter without premium or penalty. The Senior Secured Term Loan may require mandatory principal prepayments of 75% of Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Credit Agreement) for any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018). The mandatory principal prepayment requirement changes to (i) 50% of Excess Cash Flow if our Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement and calculated as of December 31) is less than or equal to 2.00:1.00 and greater than 1.50:1.00, (ii) 25% of Excess Cash Flow if our Total Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.50:1.00 and greater than 1.00:1.00, or (iii) zero if the our Total Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.00:1.00. If required, mandatory prepayments resulting from Excess Cash Flows are payable within 100 days after the end of each fiscal year. In certain circumstances, the Senior Secured Term Loan
We also requires that Excess Proceeds (as defined in the Credit Agreement) of $10 million or greater from sales of our assets be applied against the loan principal, unless such proceeds are reinvested within one year.
During the fourth quarter of 2017, we entered into the incrementala revolving credit facility permittedallowable under the Credit Agreement (the Revolver)our credit agreement during 2017 for an aggregate commitment of $350.0 million for general corporate purposes. The Revolver matures in November 2020 and permits loans which bear interest at LIBOR plus 3.25%. The Revolver is subject to a 2.00:1.00 First Lien Leverage Ratio requirement, modified to limit unrestricted cash netting to $800.0 million. Capacity under the Revolver may also beTo date, we have only utilized this revolving credit facility for letters of credit which incur combined fees of 3.375% per annum. Unused, while unused capacity under the Revolver bears a commitment fee of 0.5% per annum.. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018, the Revolver had utilized for2019, such letters of credit amountingamounted to $104.4 million. Such letters of credit$70.8 million and were primarily in support of our reclamation obligations.
In addition to the $450.0 million restricted payment basket providedOur debt agreements impose various restrictions and limits on certain categories of payments that we may make, such as those for under the amendments described above, the Credit Agreement provides a builder basket for additional restricted paymentsdividends, investments, and stock repurchases. We are also subject to a maximum Total Leverage Ratiocustomary affirmative and negative covenants. At June 30, 2019 and subsequently, we were in compliance with all such restrictions and covenants. We are currently considering alternatives for addressing our debt agreements as necessary to permit formation of 2.00:1.00 (as definedthe PRB Colorado joint venture with Arch described in the Credit Agreement).
The Indenture provides a builder basket for restricted payments that is calculated based upon our Consolidated Net Income, and“Overview” section contained within this Item 2. Our ability to accomplish this objective is subject to a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of at least 2.25:1.00 (as definedmarket conditions and other factors, including financing options that may be available to us from time to time and conditions in the Indenture).
Under both the Indenturecredit and Credit Agreement, additional restricted payments are permitted through a $50.0 million general basket and an annual aggregate $25.0 million basket which allows dividends and common stock repurchases. The payment of dividends and purchases of common stock under this latter basket are permitted so long as our Total Leverage Ratio would not exceed 1.25:1.00 on a pro forma basis (as defined in the Credit Agreement and Indenture).
On August 9, 2018, we executed an amendment to the Indenture following the solicitation of consents from the requisite majorities of holders of each series of Senior Notes. The amendment permits an additional category of restricted payments at any time not to exceed the sum of $650.0 million, plus an additional $150.0 million per calendar year, commencing with calendar year 2019, with unused amounts in any calendar year carrying forward to and available for restricted payments in any subsequent calendar year. We paid consenting Senior Note holders $10.00 in cash per $1,000 principal amount of 2022 Notes or $30.00 in cash per $1,000 principal amount of 2025 Notes, which amounted to $19.8 million.debt capital markets generally.
Accounts Receivable Securitization Program
As described in Note 17.18. “Financial Instruments and Other Guarantees” of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, on the Effective Date, we entered into an amended receivables purchase agreement to extend the accounts receivable securitization facility previously in place and expand that facility to include certain receivables from our Australian operations. The term of the accounts receivable securitization program (Securitization Program) ends on April 3, 2020, subject to certain liquidity requirements and other customary events of default.during 2017 which currently expires in 2022. The Securitization Programprogram provides for up to $250$250.0 million in funding, accounted for as a secured borrowing, limited to the availability of eligible receivables, and may beaccounted for as a secured by a combination of cash collateral and the trade receivables underlying the program, from time to time.borrowing. Funding capacity under the Securitization Programprogram may also be utilizedprovided for letters of credit in support of other obligations.
At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, we had no outstanding borrowings and $146.3$129.9 million of letters of credit issuedprovided under the Securitization Program.program. The letters of credit wereare primarily in support of portions of our obligations for reclamation, workers’ compensation and postretirement benefits.


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There was no cash collateral requirement under the program at June 30, 2019.
Capital Requirements
On September 20, 2018,As a result of the deferral of certain capital project spending to subsequent periods, we entered intorevised our expected 2019 capital expenditures to a definitive asset purchase agreementrange of $350 million to buy$375 million during the Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine located in Alabama from Drummond for an aggregate purchase price of $400 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments. The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourthfirst quarter of 2018, subject2019, as compared to certain conditions precedent and regulatory approvals. We intenda range of $375 million to finance the acquisition with available cash on hand.
There were no other material changes to our capital requirements from the information provided$425 million as disclosed in Item 77. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017. The Company has2018. There were no minimum pension funding requirement for 2018, but made discretionary contributionsother material changes to our capital requirements.


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Contractual Obligations
There were no material changes to our contractual obligations from the information previously provided in Item 77. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and Item 2 of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2018.
Historical Cash Flows and Free Cash Flow
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 20182019 and the periods April 2 through September 30, 2017 and January 1 through April 1, 2017,2018, as reported in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements:statements. Free Cash Flow is a financial measure not recognized in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Refer to the “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section above for definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable measures under U.S. GAAP.
SuccessorPredecessorSix Months Ended June 30,
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 April 2 through September 30, 2017January 1 through April 1, 20172019 2018
(Dollars in millions)(Dollars in millions)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities$1,260.8
 $313.7
$(813.0)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities(65.5) (34.9)15.1
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities(863.1) (424.1)952.3
Net cash provided by operating activities$377.0
 $915.4
Net cash used in investing activities(64.0) (18.0)
Net cash used in financing activities(430.3) (489.7)
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash332.2
 (145.3)154.4
(117.3) 407.7
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of period1,070.2
 1,095.6
941.2
1,017.4
 1,070.2
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period$1,402.4
 $950.3
$1,095.6
$900.1
 $1,477.9
   
Net cash provided by operating activities$377.0
 $915.4
Net cash used in investing activities(64.0) (18.0)
Add back: Amount attributable to acquisition of Shoal Creek Mine2.4
 
Free Cash Flow$315.4
 $897.4
Cash Flow - Successor
CashOperating Activities. The decrease in net cash provided by operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same period in the nine months ended September 30, 2018 resulted from cash generated from our mining operations and $323.1 million of collateral returned as we replaced collateral with other forms of financial assurance, partially offsetprior year was driven by $62.0 million of discretionary contributions to our qualified pension plans.the following:
Cash provided by operating activitiesA year-over-year decrease in the period April 2, 2017 through September 30, 2017 resulted from improved supply and demand conditions leading to increased cash from our mining operations. In addition, $99.4 millionoperations;
A substantial release of restrictedcollateral obligations during the prior year period upon establishing our new surety bonding program in Australia ($323.1 million);
An unfavorable change in net cash collateral became unrestricted. These factors wereflows associated with our working capital ($133.4 million); partially offset by the greater use
The receipt of working capital relatedinsurance proceeds attributable to coal stockpile increasesNorth Goonyella leased equipment, cost recovery and the payment of claims and professional fees related to the Chapter 11 Cases.business interruption ($101.8 million)
CashInvesting Activities. The increase in net cash used in investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same period in the nine months ended September 30, 2018 resultedprior year was driven by the following:
Lower cash receipts from $193.5 millionMiddlemount Coal Pty Ltd ($55.1 million); and
Lower proceeds from disposals of assets, net of receivables ($36.8 million); partially offset by
Lower additions to property, plant, equipment and mine development which was partially offset by $81.1($30.0 million, net of cash receipts from Middlemountchanges in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures); and
The receipt of insurance proceeds from disposals of assets of $69.0 million.attributable to North Goonyella Company-owned equipment losses ($23.2 million)
Cash usedFinancing Activities. The decrease in investing activities in the period April 2, 2017 through September 30, 2017 resulted from $66.8 million of additions to property, plant, equipment and mine development, which was partially offset by $35.2 million ofnet cash receipts from Middlemount.
Cash used in financing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2019 compared to the same period in the nine months ended September 30,prior year was driven by the following:
Lower common stock repurchases ($218.5 million); and
Lower debt repayments ($46.0 million) due to a prepayment made in connection with the 2018 resultedamendment of our Senior Secured Term Loan; partially offset by
Higher dividends paid ($200.0 million), primarily from $699.6 milliondue to a supplemental dividend of repurchases$1.85 per share of common stock and $44.6 million of stock dividends paid in accordance with our shareholder return initiatives, $73.0 million of payments of long-term debt, and $21.2 million of debt issuance costs, primarily related to an amendment to the Indenture.




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Cash used in financing activities in the period April 2, 2017 through September 30, 2017 resulted primarily from $300.0 million of repayments on the Senior Secured Term Loan and $69.2 million of repurchases of common stock in accordance with our debt reduction and shareholder return initiatives.
Cash Flow - Predecessor
Cash used in operating activities in the period January 1, 2017 through April 1, 2017 resulted from cash used in settlement of bankruptcy claims, partially offset by cash generated from our operations from improved supply and demand conditions.
Cash provided by investing activities in the period January 1, 2017 through April 1, 2017 resulted from $31.1 million of cash receipts from Middlemount and proceeds from disposals of assets of $24.3 driven by the sale of Dominion Terminal Associates, which was offset by $34.2 million of payments for additions to property, plant, equipment and mine development.
Cash provided by financing activities in the period January 1, 2017 through April 1, 2017 resulted from $1.0 billion of debt proceeds related to our recapitalization upon emergence from the Chapter 11 cases, partially offset by $45.4 million of related deferred financing costs.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
In the normal course of business, we are a party to various guarantees and financial instruments that carry off-balance-sheet risk and are not reflected in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, such instruments included $1,637.3$1,572.0 million of surety bonds and bank guarantees and $252.2$202.2 million of letters of credit. Such financial instruments provide support for our reclamation bonding requirements, lease obligations, insurance policies and various other performance guarantees. We periodically evaluate the instruments for on-balance-sheet treatment based on the amount of exposure under the instrument and the likelihood of required performance. We do not expect any material losses to result from these guarantees or off-balance-sheet instruments in excess of liabilities provided for in our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets.
We could experience a decline in our liquidity as financial assurances associated with reclamation bonding requirements, bank guarantees, surety bonds or other obligations are required to be collateralized by cash or letters of credit.
As described in Note 17.18. “Financial Instruments and Other Guarantees” ofin the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, we are required to provide various forms of financial assurance in support of our mining reclamation obligations in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Such requirements are typically established by statute or under mining permits. Historically, such assurances have taken the form of third-party instruments such as surety bonds, bank guarantees and letters of credit, as well as self-bonding arrangements in the U.S. In connection with our emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases,reorganization, we shifted away from extensive self-bonding in the U.S. in favor of increased usage of surety bonds and similar third-party instruments, but have retained the ability to utilize self-bonding in the future, dependent upon state-by-state approval and internal cost-benefit considerations. This divergence in practice may impact our liquidity in the future due to increased collateral requirements and surety and related fees.
At SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, we had total asset retirement obligations of $703.0$762.8 millionwhich were backed by a combination of surety bonds bank guarantees and letters of credit.
Bonding requirement amounts may differ significantly from the related asset retirement obligation because such requirements are calculated under the assumption that reclamation begins currently, whereas our accounting liabilities are discounted from the end of a mine’s economic life (when final reclamation work would begin) to the balance sheet date.
Guarantees and Other Financial Instruments with Off-Balance Sheet Risk. See Note 17.18. “Financial Instruments and Other Guarantees” toin our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for a discussion of our accounts receivable securitization program and guarantees and other financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity and capital resources is based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. We are also required under U.S. GAAP to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.


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Our critical accounting policies are discussed in Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017.2018. Our critical accounting policies remain unchanged at SeptemberJune 30, 2018.2019.
Newly Adopted Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Implemented
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Foreign Currency Risk
We have historically utilized currency forwards and options to hedge currency risk associated with anticipated Australian dollar expenditures. The accounting for these derivatives is discussed in Note 6.8. “Derivatives and Fair Value Measurements” to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. As of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company had currency options outstanding with an aggregate notional amount of $675.0$1,000.0 million Australian dollars to hedge currency risk associated with anticipated Australian dollar expenditures during the remainder of 20182019 and throughover the first quarterthree months of 2019.2020. Assuming we had no foreign currency hedging instruments in place, our exposure in operating costs and expenses due to a $0.05 change in the Australian dollar/U.S. dollar exchange rate is approximately $95$75 to $105$85 million for the next twelve months. Based upon the Australian dollar/U.S. dollar exchange rate at SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the currency option contracts outstanding at that date would not materially limit our net exposure to a $0.05 unfavorable change in the exchange rate for the next twelve months.
Subsequent to September 30, 2018, the Company purchased additional quarterly average rate options with an aggregate notional amount of $275.0 million Australian dollars to hedge currency risk associated with anticipated Australian dollar expenditures during the remainder of 2018 and through the first half of 2019.
Other Non-Coal Trading Activities — Diesel Fuel Price Risk
Diesel Fuel Hedges. Previously, we managed price risk of the diesel fuel used in our mining activities through the use of cost pass-through contracts and from time to time, derivatives, primarily swaps. However, asAs of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, we did not have any diesel fuel derivative instruments in place. We also manage the price risk of diesel fuel through the use of cost pass-through contacts with certain customers.
We expect to consume 115100 to 125110 million gallons of diesel fuel during the next twelve months. A $10 per barrel change in the price of crude oil (the primary component of a refined diesel fuel product) would increase or decrease our annual diesel fuel costs by approximately $30$26 million based on our expected usage.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to, among other things, provide reasonable assurance that material information, both financial and non-financial, and other information required under the securities laws to be disclosed is accumulated and communicated to senior management, including our principal executive and financial officers, on a timely basis. Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) as of SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, and concluded that such controls and procedures are effective to provide reasonable assurance that the desired control objectives were achieved. Additionally,
We acquired the Shoal Creek Mine on December 3, 2018. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the Shoal Creek Mine accounted for $114.5 million and $230.7 million, respectively, of our revenues and constituted $377.3 million of total assets as of June 30, 2019. We completed our review of the internal control structure of the Shoal Creek Mine and, made appropriate changes to incorporate our controls and procedures into the acquired operations. The Shoal Creek Mine will be included in our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019.
Except as described in the preceding paragraph, there have been no changes to our internal control over financial reporting during the most recent fiscal quarter that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.



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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
We are subject to various legal and regulatory proceedings. For a description of our significant legal proceedings refer to Note 4.5. “Discontinued Operations” and Note 18.19. “Commitments and Contingencies” to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1. “Financial Statements” of this Quarterly Report, which information is incorporated by reference herein.


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Item 1A. Risk Factors.
TheFor information regarding factors that could affect the Company's results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, see the risk factor set forth below updates the corresponding risk factor previously disclosedfactors discussed in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 20172018 filed with the SEC on February 26, 2018.27, 2019. The information below includes additional risk factors relating to our proposed PRB Colorado joint venture with Arch.
Risks inherentOur proposed joint ventures with Arch and Glencore may not be completed.
On June 18, 2019, we entered into a definitive implementation agreement with Arch to establish a joint venture that will combine the respective Powder River Basin and Colorado mining could increase the costoperations of operating our business,Peabody and events and conditions that could occur during the courseArch.
The closing of our mining operations could have a material adverse impact on us.
Our mining operations areproposed joint venture with Arch is subject to eventsvarious conditions to closing, including the termination or expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, the receipt of certain other required regulatory approvals and the absence of injunctions or other legal restraints preventing the formation of the joint venture. These closing conditions may not be satisfied, and in that can impactcircumstance we may be unable or unwilling to complete this joint venture. If the safetyimplementation agreement is terminated by us before we complete the joint venture, under certain circumstances, we may be required to pay a termination fee to Arch of up to $40.0 million.
In 2014, we agreed to establish an unincorporated joint venture project with Glencore, in which we will hold a 50% interest, to combine the existing operations of the our Wambo Open-Cut Mine in Australia with the adjacent coal reserves of Glencore’s United Mine. The closing of our workforce,proposed joint venture with Glencore is subject to substantive contingencies for the requisite regulatory and permitting approvals. These contingencies may not occur, and, as a result, we may be unable to complete this joint venture.
Joint ventures, partnerships or delay coal deliveriesnon-managed operations may not be successful and may not comply with our operating standards.
We participate in several joint venture and partnership arrangements and may enter into others, all of which necessarily involve risk. Whether or increasenot we hold majority interests or maintain operational control in our joint ventures, our partners may, among other things, (1) have economic or business interests or goals that are inconsistent with, or opposed to, ours; (2) seek to block actions that we believe are in our or the costjoint venture’s best interests; or (3) be unable or unwilling to fulfill their obligations under the joint venture or other agreements, such as contributing capital, each of mining at particular mines for varying lengths of time. These events and conditions, which could materially andmay adversely impact on our results of operations financial condition and cash flows, include:our liquidity or impair our ability to recover our investments.
firesWhere our joint ventures are jointly controlled or not managed by us, we may provide expertise and explosions, including from methaneadvice but have limited control over compliance with our operational standards. We also utilize contractors across our mining platform, and may be similarly limited in our ability to control their operational practices. Failure by non-controlled joint venture partners or coal dust;
accidental mine water discharges;
weather, flooding and natural disasters;
hazardous geologic events such as roof falls and high wall failures;
key equipment failures;
variations in coal seam thickness, coal quality, the amount of rock and soil overlying coal deposits, and geologic conditions impacting mine sequencing;
unexpected maintenance problems; and
unforeseen delays in implementation of mining technologiescontractors to adhere to operational standards that are newequivalent to ours could unfavorably affect operating costs and productivity and adversely impact our operations.results of operations and reputation.
In this regard,The benefits that are expected to result from the proposed joint venture will depend, in part, on our North Goonyella Mineability to realize the anticipated cost synergies in Queensland, Australia experienced elevated gas levels beginning in September 2018, followed bythe transaction, our and Arch’s ability to successfully integrate our Powder River Basin and Colorado mining operations, and our and Arch’s ability to successfully manage the joint venture on a fire in a portion of the mine. The underground minegoing-forward basis. It is not certain that we will realize these benefits at all, and portions of the surface area at North Goonyella remain restricted to access through exclusion zones while the work to contain the impacts of the fire continues. The situation at North Goonyella remains complex and uncertain, andif we are continuing to evaluate potential next phases. Mining operations were suspended in September 2018 anddo, it is uncertain when or if mining operationsnot certain how long it will restart.take to achieve these benefits. If, after exploring all reasonable mine-planning steps focused on resuming mining activities at the North Goonyella Mine we determine thatfor example, we are unable to extract coal from allachieve the anticipated cost savings, or a significant portionif there are unforeseen integration costs, or if we and Arch are unable to operate the joint venture smoothly in the future, the financial performance of the mine, our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely impacted. In addition, the costs thatjoint venture may be incurred to address the impacts of the fire and to return the mine to active operations (if the mine returns to active operations) are uncertain and could be significant. We maintain potentially applicable insurance policies for losses associated with the events at our North Goonyella Mine, as well as the other risks referenced above, and those insurance policies may lessen the impact associated with these events and risks. However, there can be no assurance as to the amount or timing of recovery under our insurance policies in connection with losses associated with these events and risks.negatively affected.


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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
Share Repurchase ProgramsProgram
On August 1, 2017, we announced that ourOur Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program, as amended, to allow repurchases of up to $500 million$1.5 billion of the then outstanding shares of our common stock and/or preferred stock (Repurchase Program). On April 25, 2018, we announced that the Board authorized the expansion of the Repurchase Program to $1.0 billion. On October 30, 2018, we announced that the Board authorized an additional expansion of the Repurchase Program to $1.5 billion. Repurchases may be made from time to time at the Company’s discretion. The specific timing, price and size of purchases will depend on the share price, general market and economic conditions and other considerations, including compliance with various debt agreements as they may be amended from time to time. The Repurchase Program does not have an expiration date and may be discontinued at any time. Through SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, we have repurchased approximately 22.832 million shares of our common stock for $874.9$1,166.4 million, which included commissions paid of $0.6 million, leaving $625.1$334.2 million available for share repurchase under the Repurchase Program. Included in the shares repurchased during the three months ended SeptemberSubsequent to June 30, 2018 were approximately 7.22019 and through August 2, 2019, we have purchased an additional 2.6 million shares of our common stock for $300.0 million in connection with a definitive agreement to directly repurchase shares from entities advised by Elliott Management.$58.3 million. The purchases were made in compliance with our debt instruments. Limitations on share repurchases imposed by our debt instruments are discussed in Part I, Item 2. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
Share Relinquishments
We routinely allow employees to relinquish common stock to pay estimated taxes upon the vesting of restricted stock units and the payout of performance units that are settled in common stock under our equity incentive plans. The value of common stock tendered by employees is determined based on the closing price of our common stock on the dates of the respective relinquishments.


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Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table summarizes all share purchases for the three months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018:2019:
Period 
Total
Number of
Shares
Purchased (1)
 
Average
Price Paid per
Share
 
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced
Program
 
Maximum Dollar
Value that May
Yet Be Used to
Repurchase Shares
Under the Publicly
Announced Program
(In millions)
July 1 through July 31, 2018 560,429
 $44.67
 559,641
 $925.1
August 1 through August 31, 2018 7,173,613
 41.82
 7,173,601
 625.1
September 1 through September 30, 2018 24
 
 
 625.1
Total 7,734,066
 $42.03
 7,733,242
  
Period 
Total
Number of
Shares
Purchased (1)
 
Average
Price Paid per
Share
 
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced
Program
 
Maximum Dollar
Value that May
Yet Be Used to
Repurchase Shares
Under the Publicly
Announced Program
(In millions)
April 1 through April 30, 2019 1,599,149
 $28.12
 1,201,676
 $357.3
May 1 through May 31, 2019 296,725
 28.33
 295,897
 348.9
June 1 through June 30, 2019 626,234
 23.53
 626,234
 334.2
Total 2,522,108
 27.00
 2,123,807
  
(1) 
Includes shares withheld to cover the withholding taxes upon the vesting of equity awards, which are not part of the Repurchase Program.
Dividends
During the three and ninesix months ended SeptemberJune 30, 2018,2019, the Company declared dividends per share of $0.125$0.140 and $0.355,$2.120 per share, respectively. On October 17, 2018, the CompanyAugust 7, 2019, our Board of Directors declared an additionala dividend of $0.145 per share of $0.13Common Stock to be paid on November 21, 2018September 11, 2019 to shareholders of record as of October 31, 2018.August 21, 2019. The declaration and payment of dividends and the amount of dividends will depend on our results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements, future prospects, any limitations imposed by our debt covenants and other factors that our Board of Directors may deem relevant to such evaluations. Payment of dividends is subject to certain limitations, following the Effective Date, as set forth in our debt provisions.agreements. Such limitations on dividends are discussed in Part I, Item 2. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”
Mandatory Conversion of Preferred Stock
Each outstanding share of our Preferred Stock was subject to mandatory automatic conversion into a number of shares of common stock if the volume weighted average price of the common stock exceeded $32.50 for at least 45 trading days in a 60 consecutive trading day period, including each of the last 20 days in such 60 consecutive trading day period. On January 31, 2018, the requirements for such a mandatory conversion were met and the then outstanding 13.2 million shares of Preferred Stock were automatically converted into 24.8 million shares of common stock. As a result of this mandatory conversion, we recorded a non-cash preferred dividend charge of $102.5 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2018. After the mandatory conversion, no shares of Preferred Stock are issued or outstanding and all rights of the prior holders of Preferred Stock have terminated.

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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Our “Safety a Way of Life Management System” has been designed to set clear and consistent expectations for safety and health across our business. It aligns to the National Mining Association’s CORESafety® framework and encompasses three fundamental areas: leadership and organization, safety and health risk management and assurance. We also partner with other companies and certain governmental agencies to pursue new technologies that have the potential to improve our safety performance and provide better safety protection for employees. On September 7, 2018, a haul truck driver at the Bear Run Mine was transporting spoil to a dump site when a bulldozer operator saw a fire on the truck. While exiting the truck, the driver received burns and was taken to the hospital. Tragically, on September 12, 2018, he suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away. The investigation surrounding the incident is ongoing.
We continually monitor our safety performance and regulatory compliance. The information concerning mine safety violations or other regulatory matters required by SEC regulations is included in Exhibit 95 to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Item 6. Exhibits.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
The exhibits below are numbered in accordance with the Exhibit Table of Item 601 of Regulation S-K.
Exhibit No. Description of Exhibit
   
10.1†2.1 
   
10.210.1 
10.3
   
31.1† 
   
31.2† 
   
32.1† 
   
32.2† 
   
95† 
101†Interactive Data File (Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2018 filed in XBRL). The financial information contained in the XBRL-related documents is “unaudited” and “unreviewed”
   
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SIGNATURE


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
   PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
Date:November 1, 2018August 8, 2019By:  /s/ AMY B. SCHWETZ
    Amy B. Schwetz
    
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(On behalf of the registrant and as Principal Financial Officer) 








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