ALLIANCE RESOURCE PARTNERS LP

Inventories consist of the following**:**

The above balances reflect lower of cost or net realizable value adjustments of $24.6 million to our coal inventories. These adjustments are a result of lower coal sale prices and higher cost per ton primarily due to a longwall move at the Hamilton County Coal, LLC (“Hamilton”) mining complex, lower production at Mettiki Coal , LLC and Mettiki Coal (WV), LLC (collectively “Mettiki”) and MC Mining, LLC (“MC Mining”) mining complexes, and ongoing development activities at the Henderson County mine at our River View Coal, LLC (“River View”) mining complex.

Certain of our subsidiaries, primarily consisting of Matrix Design Group, LLC, its subsidiaries, and Alliance Design Group, LLC (collectively referred to as “Matrix Group”), manufacture a variety of products for our mining operations and third parties. Historically, these products were primarily consumed by our mining operations with the associated inventory presented as supplies inventory. Recently Matrix Group has been increasing its sales to third-parties. As a result, we have presented our manufactured goods inventories in the table above separately from our historical presentation of supplies inventory.