Maryland Energy Resources, LLC
MER, LLC

Maryland Energy Resources, LLC, is a Delaware limited liablity company formed in September 2007. The company was established to enter into a coal mineral lease and conduct an underground mining business. The company is managed by the Joseph Peles Coal Company, LLP, based in Indiana, Pennsylvania. This company has extensive experience in the coal business, primarily in Pennsylvania.

The Joseph Peles Coal Company, LLP, was formed in 1998 for the development and management of an underground mining project in Pennsylvania that proved very profitable. The General Partner, Joseph Peles, has been operating coal mines since 1962. He has had numerous productive and profitable surface and underground mines to his credit in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.