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Just a correction - Coal India Limited (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_India_Limited) is the largest coal company in the world - not Peabody Energy.

CIL is a public company in the ran-by-a-government sense, so it's a little different. BTU is the largest private sector coal company.

CIL is a publicly listed company though govt is the biggest shareholder. You are right about the private part.