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                                                                  Exhibit 3.35.3

                               ARTICLES OF MERGER

                       OF DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY CORPORATION

                                      INTO

                           DOMESTIC PARENT CORPORATION

      Pursuant to the provisions of Section 119, Article 1, Chapter 31 of the
Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, the undersigned domestic corporation
adopts the following Articles of Merger for the purpose of merging a subsidiary
corporation into the undersigned as the surviving corporation:

      The following Plan of Merger was approved by the Board of Directors of the
undersigned, as the surviving corporation, in the manner prescribed by Section
117, Article 1, Chapter 31 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended:

                                 PLAN OF MERGER

                         SANDY CREEK LAND COMPANY, INC.
                          (a West Virginia Corporation)

                                      INTO

                          PATRIOT MINING COMPANY, INC.
                          (a West Virginia Corporation)

      ARTICLE FIRST: As of the Effective Date (as defined in Article Third
hereof) and upon the terms set forth in Article Second hereof, Sandy Creek Land
Company, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation ("Sandy Creek"), shall be merged into
Patriot Mining Company, Inc., a West Virginia corporation ("Patriot"). Patriot
shall be the surviving corporation in such merger (the "Surviving Corporation").
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      ARTICLE SECOND: The terms and conditions of the merger are as follows:

            A. Share Cancellation. Each share of common stock of Sandy Creek
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Date shall forthwith
automatically be cancelled on the Effective Date and no additional shares of the
common stock of Patriot shall be issued as a result of the merger.

            B. Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws; Name. The Articles of
Incorporation and By-Laws of Patriot shall continue as the Articles of
Incorporation and By-Laws of the Surviving Corporation. The name of the
Surviving Corporation shall be Patriot Mining Company, Inc.

            C. Directors and Officers. The directors and officers of Patriot
shall continue in office as directors and officers of the Surviving Corporation
in accordance with the By-Laws of Patriot until such time as their successors
have been elected and qualified.

            D. Assets and Liabilities. Upon the Effective Date all the property,
real and personal, rights, privileges, immunities, powers, purposes, franchises,
patents, licenses, trademarks, registrations, causes of action, and every other
asset of Sandy Creek and Patriot shall be transferred to, vest in and devolve
upon the Surviving Corporation without further act or deed, and every interest
of Sandy Creek and Patriot shall be as effectively the property of the Surviving
Corporation as they were of Sandy Creek and Patriot.

            E. Abandonment. Notwithstanding approval and adoption of this Plan
of Merger by the Board of Directors of Patriot, this Plan of Merger may be
abandoned and the merger of Sandy Creek and Patriot terminated at any time prior
to the Effective Date by decision of the Board of Directors of Patriot.
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      ARTICLE THIRD: The effective date of the merger of Sandy Creek and Patriot
(the "Effective Date") shall be the later of December 28, 1984 or the date on
which the Articles of Merger are filed by the Department of State of West
Virginia.

            The number of outstanding shares of each class of the subsidiary
corporation and the number of such shares of each class owned by the Surviving
Corporation are as follows:



                                                             Number of Shares
                      Number of Shares      Designation          Owned by
Name of Corporation     Outstanding          of Class      Surviving Corporation
                                                           
Sandy Creek Land            392               Common                392
  Company, Inc.


Dated December    , 1984

                                          PATRIOT MINING COMPANY, INC.


                                          By: /s/ Richard B. Bolen
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                                          Name:   Richard B. Bolen
                                          Title:  President


                                          By: /s/ Elizabeth L. Thomas
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                                          Name:   Elizabeth L. Thomas
                                          Title:  Secretary
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA        )
                                    )     ss.:
COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY                 )

      I, Cynthia K. Haluszczak, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that on this
19th day of December, 1984, personally appeared before me Elizabeth L. Thomas,
who, being by me first duly sworn, declared that she is the Secretary of Patriot
Mining Company, Inc., that she signed the foregoing document as Secretary of the
Corporation, and that the statements therein contained are true.


                                          /s/ Cynthia K. Haluszczak
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                                                      Notary Public


                              CYNTHIA K. HALUSZCZAK NOTARY PUBLIC
                              UPPER ST CLAIR TWP ALLEGHENY COUNTY
                               MY COMMISSION EXPIRES MAY 2 1988
My commission expires:    Member Pennsylvania Association of Notaries
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