Foundation Coal will look for a strong second quarter.

Following slight decreases during the first quarter of 2007, Linthicum Heights-based Foundation Coal Holdings Inc. said last week it would announce its second-quarter results during a conference call Aug. 1. During the second three-month period of its fiscal year, Foundation saw one of its affiliated mines close inWabash, Ill., but also a new labor deal reached with the miners union at other locations.