SEC Comment Letter for Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (AMR) (CIK 0001704715) (AMR) — Oct 31, 2022
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (AMR) (CIK 0001704715)
Date: Oct. 31, 2022 · CIK: 0001704715 · Accession: 0000000000-22-011873
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October 31, 2022
Todd Munsey
Chief Financial Officer
Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc.
340 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Bristol, Tennessee 37620
Re:Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021
Filed March 7, 2022
File No. 001-38735
Dear Todd Munsey:
We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In some of our
comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your
disclosure.
Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2021
Item 1. Business, page 8
1.Please tell us if your mineral property summary disclosure includes all properties as
required by Item 1303 (a)(1) of Regulation S-K. For example the table on
page 8 lists eighteen active mines, however your disclosure on page 56 states that you
have twenty active mines.
Item 2. Properties, page 51
2.We note that the coal reserves and resources disclosed in your annual filing for the
Kingston and Marfork complexes are different than the coal reserves and resources
numbers in your technical reports. For example, the Kingston coal reserve is 32,489,000
tons and the coal resource is 21,254,000 tons in your 10-K filing compared to the coal
reserve of 60,740,000 tons and the coal resource of 28,337,000 tons in your technical
report summary filed as Exhibit 96.3. Additionally the Marfork coal reserve is
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145,741,000 tons and the coal resource is 128,786,000 tons in your 10-K filing compared
to the coal reserve of 117,491,000 tons and the coal resource of 121,702,000 tons in your
technical report summary filed as Exhibit 96.4 Please advise.
3.Please revise to include the information required under Item 1305 of Regulation S-K
regarding internal controls used in your exploration and mineral resource and reserve
estimation efforts.
Exhibit Index
Exhibit No. 96.1, 96.2, 96.3, 96.4, & 96.5, page 144
4.Please address the following with respect to you technical reports:
•Include the information required under Item 601(b)(96)(iii)(B)(3)(iii) of Regulation
S-K regarding your title, claim, mineral lease, or option agreements.
•In certain instances it appears that mineral resources inclusive of reserves have been
added to mineral resources that are exclusive of reserves. For example, Table 11-4 of
Exhibit 96.3 includes a "Grand Total" measured resource of 105,204,000 tons that is
the sum of 102,715,000 tons of measured resources that are inclusive of reserves and
2,489,000 tons of mineral resources that are exclusive of reserves. Generally mineral
resources that are exclusive of reserves are a subset of mineral resources that are
inclusive of reserves and are not additive. Please advise.
•Please revise the "Reliance on Information by the Registrant" section of your
technical reports to only include categories of information under Item 1302 (f)(1) of
Regulation S-K. Other information that has been included in this section should be
removed so that the information is consistent with the disclosure specified under Item
1302 (f)(2) of Regulation S-K.
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
You may contact John Coleman at 202-551-3610 or Gus Rodriguez at 202-551-3752 if
you have questions regarding comments.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation