Director picks up more shares in Tulsa coal-mining company

A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed one of the members of the board of directors at Tulsa-based Alliance Resource Partners acquired more shares in the firm this week.

Independent director Wilson M. Torrence acquired 4,300 shares in the company valued at $15.5452 each on August 12. A day later, he acquired 1,300 more shares valued at $14.993 each, giving him a total of 40,396 shares in the mining company.

Torrence is on the Board of Directors at Alliance GP LLC, Alliance Holdings GP LP, Alliance Resource Partners LP and Alliance Resource Management Group LLC.

He was previously employed as Chief Financial Officer & Director by Cleantech America, Inc., SVP-Project Development & Investments by Fluor Corp., President & CEO-Waste to Energy Division by Combustion Engineering, Inc., Assistant Treasurer by ExxonMobil Oil Corp., Chairman by Institute of Resource Recovery, and Chief Financial Officer by Mobil Land Development Corp.