EXHIBIT 24.1


                            DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF
                         INTERNATIONAL COAL GROUP, INC.

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

      We, the undersigned officers and directors of International Coal Group,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), hereby severally constitute and
appoint Bennett K. Hatfield and William D. Campbell, and each of them, our true
and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them, with full powers
of substitution and resubstitution, to sign for us and in our names in the
capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to
the proposed offering of shares of the Company's Common Stock, par value $0.01,
in connection with the Company's corporate reorganization and any and all
pre-effective and post-effective amendments to said Registration Statement, and
any subsequent Registration Statement for the same offering which may be filed
under Rule 462(b), and generally to do all such things in our names and on our
behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable the Company to
comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and all requirements of
the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our
signatures as they may be signed by our attorneys, or any of them, or their
substitute or substitutes, to said Registration Statement and any and all
amendments thereto or to any subsequent Registration Statement for the same
offering which may be filed under Rule 462(b).

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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned directors and officers of the Company
have hereunto set their hands as of the 27th day of June 2005.


/s/ Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.                 /s/ Bennett K. Hatfield
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Name:  Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.             Name:  Bennett K. Hatfield
Title: Non-Executive Chairman of the   Title: President, Chief Executive Officer
       Board of Directors and Director        and Director


/s/ William D. Campbell                 /s/ Wendy L. Teramoto
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Name:  William D. Campbell             Name:  Wendy L. Teramoto
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and   Title: Director
       Secretary


                                        /s/ Jon R. Bauer
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Name:  Marcia L. Page                  Name:  Jon R. Bauer
Title: Director                        Title: Director


/s/ Cynthia B. Bezik                    /s/ William J. Catacosinos
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Name:  Cynthia B. Bezik                Name:  William J. Catacosinos
Title: Director                        Title: Director

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