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Blue Creek Project

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 Location:
34 km SW from Jasper, Alabama, United States

  Project Contacts:
16243 Highway 216
Brookwood
Alabama, United States
35444
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Overview

StageConstruction
Mine TypeUnderground
Commodities
  • Coal (metallurgical)
Mining Method
  • Longwall
  • Continuous
Production Start...
Mine Life2054
On May 3, 2022, Warrior Met Coal announced the relaunch of the development of our Blue Creek mine, a strategic growth project. The Company believes that Blue Creek represents one of the few remaining untapped reserves of premium High Vol A met coal in the United States and that it has the potential to provide us with meaningful growth. The Company has the ability to acquire adjacent reserves that would increase total reserves to 144 million metric tons and expect that Blue Creek will have a mine life of 40 plus years assuming a single longwall operation.


Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Warrior Met Coal Inc. 100 % Indirect

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Deposit Type

  • Sedimentary


Summary:

Mineralization
Regional coal rank in the BWB generally ranges from a low-volatile coal in the southeastern portion of the basin to a high-volatile coal to the northwest. Due to the value of the Mary Lee and Blue Creek seams in the low- to medium-volatile coking coal market at its active Mine No. 4 and Mine No. 7 operations (and adjoining mines) to the south and east of the Property, the subject coal seams have been extensively mined in the region. Laboratory data for the Blue Creek Project indicates a typically high volatile (greater than 31% volatile matter) bituminous coal product. Based on analysis of coal samples, the Mary Lee and Blue Creek seams on the Property are considered a high-volatile metallurgical-grade coal product.

Deposits
Sediments of the Upper Pottsville Mary Lee coal zone are Lower Pennsylvanian in age and comprised of cyclic sequences including: sandstone, siltstone/sandy shale, shale (and occasional marine shale zones), and coal. Located within the middle of the Black Warrior Basin stratigraphic sequence, the Mary Lee and Blue Creek horizon is situated below drainage throughout the Property and is accessible by slope and shafts. General lithologic characteristics of are described below:
> The New Castle seam is present approximately 15 to 50 feet above the Mary Lee seam.

> Lithologic composition of the roof strata varies throughout the Property, consisting primarily of a coarsening-upward sequence of shale or sandy ........


Mining Methods

  • Longwall
  • Continuous


Summary:

Due to its coal reserve and seam characteristics, the Project will utilize longwall mining methods. The mine plan presented in this TRS utilizes a single longwall supported by continuous mining units.

Run-of-mine coal will be transported to the surface via a slope, the development of which s currently underway. A service shaft and hoist, both also currently being developed, will serve as the primary means of transportation of miners, supplies, and equipment to the coal mine. An additional fan (exhaust) shaft will be required for mine ventilation, and a third shaft (primary intake) will be required to support longwall production. Bleeder shafts will be installed in each longwall district.

The Blue Creek Project will be a sister operation to Warrior Met's active operations, Mine No. 7 and Mine No. 4. The longwall shearing machines are used for the extraction of coal at the production face. A chain conveyor is used to remove coal from the longwall face for discharge onto the conveyor belt which then ultimately delivers it to the skip system. Development for the longwalls is conducted by the extraction of coal from the production faces using continuous miners and haulage using shuttle cars to a feeder-breaker located at the tail of the section conveyor belt. The feeder-breaker crushes large pieces of coal and rock and regulates coal feed onto the mine conveyor. Roof-bolting machines are used to support the roof on the development sections of the longwall min ........


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Projected Production:

CommodityUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Coal (metallurgical) Mt 3.8104
All production numbers are expressed as clean coal.

* According to 2023 study.

Reserves at December 31, 2022:
The Proven and Probable coal reserves are reported as marketable coal reserves.

CategoryTonnage CommodityMarketable Coal
Proven Mt Coal (metallurgical) 42.8 Mt
Probable Mt Coal (metallurgical) 25.4 Mt
Proven & Probable Mt Coal (metallurgical) 68.2 Mt
Measured 69.5 Mt Coal (metallurgical)
Indicated 41.9 Mt Coal (metallurgical)
Measured & Indicated 111.4 Mt Coal (metallurgical)

Commodity Production Costs:

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Proposed Heavy Mobile Equipment as of February 10, 2023:
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

DocumentYear
Technical Report 2023
Annual Report 2022
Corporate Presentation 2022
Corporate Presentation 2022
Form 10-K 2022
Other 2022
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