Cloud Peak Set to End Bankruptcy After Auction for Coal Assets

Oct. 4, 2019, 4:00 PM UTC

Judge overseeing miner’s liquidation agreed to speed up the end of Cloud Peak Energy’s bankruptcy by scheduling a hearing for Dec. 5 on a plan to distribute sales proceeds to creditors.

  • U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross consented to the company’s request to hold the hearing 11 days early in order to ensure Cloud Peak can end its case and pay creditors by Dec. 31
  • Under an outline of its wind down plan filed Friday, Cloud Peak will distribute $15.7m in cash and $40m in notes from the sale to creditors owed about $346.8m
  • On Wednesday Gross approved the sale of ...

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