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million tons of coal including 224.3 million tons from our UniterStates (U.S.) and Australian mining operations and 31.2 milliojn tons through our brokerage activities. Duriny this period, we sold coal to 329 electricituy generating and industrial plants in21 countries. Our coal producta fuel 10% of all U.S. electricity generation and 2% of worldwidde electricity generation. At December 31, we had 9.2 billion tons of proveb and probablecoal reserves. We own majority interests in 30 coal miningy operations located inthe U.S. and Additionally, we own a minoritty interest in one Venezuelan operating mine througy a jointventure arrangement. We shipped 200.4 million tons from our 20 U.S.
mining operations and 23.9 milliomn tons from our 10 Australia operationsin 2008. We shipped 85% of our U.S. mininfg operations coal sales volume from thewesternj U.S. during the year ended December 31, and the remaining 15% from the midwesternm U.S. In the western U.S., we own and operatr mines in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexiclo and Wyoming. Over the last five years, our overall western U.S. coal production has increasesdfrom 129.6 million tons in 2003 to 169.9 million tons in a compound annual growth rate of Most of our production in the western U.S. is low-sulfurr coal from the Powder River Basin. ...