Walter Energy, Inc. was a publicly traded "pure play" metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry.

[2] The company's U.S. underground mines produced high-quality coal from Alabama's Blue Creek seam.

Walter Energy's Canadian and European operations consist of three mines in British Columbia, Canada and a project in Wales at Aberpergwm, UK.

The predecessor company was founded by Tampa entrepreneur the late James W. Walter Sr. in 1946[3] as a builder of affordable, stick-built homes across the southeast.

5 coal mine in Brookwood, 40 miles southwest of Birmingham, a cave-in caused a release of methane gas that sparked two major explosions, killing thirteen miners.