Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
22 Feb 2019asset acquisition disposition▲ Good
American Resources closed a merger with Empire Kentucky Land (issuing 2 million shares for 100% of its stock) and a related asset purchase from affiliated Empire Coal Holdings for $500,000 cash plus a $2 million note, adding land and mineral rights near its McCoy Elkhorn operations.
American Resources priced a $4.0 million underwritten stock offering and uplisted from the over-the-counter market to the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker AREC, a significant step up in the company's public-market standing.
American Resources borrowed up to $6.5 million from coal buyer Integrity Coal Sales at 5% interest to expand production at its McCoy Elkhorn mine, repayable out of a new long-term coal supply contract with Integrity running through January 2021.
13 Nov 2018asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
American Resources closed its purchase of the Synergy Coal properties in West Virginia, amended its charter to raise authorized shares to 260 million, and saw holders convert 90% of its Series A Preferred stock into common shares.
American Resources agreed to buy roughly 1,100 acres of coal land and related permits in Wyoming County, West Virginia from Synergy Coal and its owner for about $16.1 million, mostly paid in company stock.
1 June 2018material agreement termination▲ GoodMajor
American Resources extinguished a $17.8 million related-party payable owed to Quest Mgmt LLC dating back to a 2015 agreement, meaningfully cleaning up its balance sheet.
Subsidiary Quest Energy raised $1 million through a no-interest secured note tied to a sale-and-leaseback of equipment with supplier ENECo, repayable over four months.
American Resources' McCoy Elkhorn Coal subsidiary subleased surface rights and coal reserves near Phelps, Kentucky from Colonial Coal Company, taking over as interim operator of two mining permits and assuming their reclamation liabilities.
Now operating in coal, the company (soon renamed American Resources Corporation) restructured its debt with Vancouver-based Golden Properties Ltd into a consolidated loan agreement plus roughly $2.3 million in notes and multiple stock warrants - the start of a lending relationship that would recur for years.
The company filed audited 2015 financial statements for Quest Energy, Inc., the coal company it had by this point taken on as a subsidiary - marking its pivot away from its original, unrelated shell-company businesses and into coal, ahead of its rename to American Resources Corporation.
The company (formerly NGFC Equities) finished its takeover of Quest Energy, an Indiana company that owns coal mining and processing businesses in eastern Kentucky. It issued 4,817,792 new Series A Preferred shares to Quest's owners. The filing says these convert into 95% of the common stock, so existing shareholders were left with about 5%. Control passed to Quest's owners on Feb 7, 2017, and the name changed to American Resources Corporation on Feb 17, 2017. This starts the coal story and replaces the earlier gas-station and fueling plans.