Each household has also been given a carbon monoxide alarm, it said.

Murray Energy is the latest to join a string of coal companies.

"we do not expect growing foreign demand for US coal to supplant weaker domestic demand or reverse the industry's decline."

In the PRB, Arch expects reduced volumes and higher unit costs in Q4.

The two projects, one located in Shanxi Province and the other in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The coal mine's annual production capacity will be 3 million tonnes.

Shanxi has been very clear its goal to lower its annual production of coal to 1 billion tons by 2020.

However, iron ore imports during the period declined 2.4 percent to 784 million tons.