Westmoreland Resource Partners (WMLPQ) 10-K 2011 FY Annual report

EXHIBIT 32.2

CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER

PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350

In connection with the Annual Report of Oxford Resource Partners, LP (the “Partnership”) on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2011 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Jeffrey M. Gutman, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Oxford Resources GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 906”), that:

(1) the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2) information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Partnership.

Date: March 14, 2012

By:	/s/ JEFFREY M. GUTMAN
	Jeffrey M. Gutman
	Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Oxford Resources GP, LLC (the general partner of Oxford Resource Partners, LP)

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate document. A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Partnership and will be retained by the Partnership and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.