Billionaire coal baron dies in Bahamas crash
Lynn Doan
San Francisco | Christopher Cline, a billionaire American coal tycoon best known for reviving Illinois's mining industry and making a fortune doing it, died in a helicopter crash Thursday - just a day shy of his 61st birthday.
Mr Cline died in an accident off the coast of the Bahamas that also killed six other people, Brian Glasser, an attorney who represented Mr Cline, said by telephone. He was a founder of St Louis, Missouri-based coal miner Foresight Energy, a joint venture with Robert Murray's Murray Energy.
Bloomberg
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