American Resources Corp (AREC)

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NEWS 6/18/2020 American Resources Corporation Reports First Quarter 2020 Financial Results and Provides Business Outlook

  **Company prepared to rapidly emerge as leading infrastructure company solely focused on mining metallurgical carbon used in the steelmaking process 
  
 **Company well-positioned to be a long-term supplier of raw material to the global infrastructure market while bringing a more efficient and modernized business model to the industry 
 Strategic steps taken to transform  
  
 **Company into infrastructure company producing pure metallurgical carbon, while enhancing environmental, social and governance (ESG) profile 
  
 **Company expects multiple value-driving milestones over the course of 2020 
 

FISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / June 18, 2020 / American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) ("American Resources" or the "Company"), a supplier of raw materials to the rapidly growing global infrastructure marketplace with a primary focus on the extraction, processing, transportation and distribution of metallurgical carbon to the steel and specialty metals industries, today reported its first quarter of 2020 financial results.

Mark Jensen, Chairman and CEO of American Resources Corporation commented, "The first three months of 2020 continued to be very productive in the transformation of the Company in becoming an infrastructure company and pure producer of metallurgical carbon. We continued to advance our efforts and position the company to be a stable, long-term supplier of metallurgical carbon to the worldwide steel markets to support growing global infrastructure demand, while bringing a more efficient and modernized business model to the industry."

First Quarter 2020 Key Highlights

January 2020: Advanced the Company's Environmental Social Governance (ESG) position by establishing a partnership with Land Betterment Corporation, an environmental solutions company focused on fostering a positive impact through upcycling former coal mining sites to create sustainable community development and job creation.
February 2020: Completed the restructuring of Perry County Resources (PCR), the Company's fifth carbon processing and logistics complex which was acquired in September 2019. The Company implemented its Strategic Plan of Action to bring its next-generation operating model and philosophy to eliminate overburdensome, legacy costs and streamline its operations to allow the complex to operate more efficiently.
March 2020: Divested certain non-core assets at Perry County Resources to lower the complex's holding costs and to monetize assets that are not in the Company's 5-10 year operating plan.

Mr. Jensen continued, "Looking forward to the remainder of 2020 and into the coming years, we remain quite optimistic on global infrastructure demand and believe governments around the world will continue to look to increase infrastructure projects as a way to stimulate economic activity as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. We feel we are currently in a great position to fulfill a portion of that demand growth given the efforts and achievements we have made at our PCR and McCoy Elkhorn complexes to effectively be one of the lowest cost producers of metallurgical carbon in the industry. Additionally, and as we execute on this transformational phase of our growth, so does our equally important ability to provide stable long-term employment to a region in need."

"Lastly, we believe our ESG efforts will further distinguish American Resources as industry revolutionaries and the partnerships we have made will accelerate our goals to permanently shut down and remediate irrational thermal coal operation throughout our region and find creative ways to contribute to the advancement of social and environmental issues facing this region."

Financial Results for First Quarter 2020

For the first quarter of 2020, American Resources reported a net loss from operations of $4.26 million, or a loss of $0.12 per share, as compared with a net loss from operations of $9.89 million, or a loss of $0.48 per share, in the prior-year period. The Company earned adjusted EBITDA loss of $713,008 in the first quarter of 2020, as compared with adjusted EBITDA loss of $3.82 million for the first quarter of 2019.

Fourth Quarter 2019 Summary

Total revenues were $524,334 for the first quarter of 2020. Cost of sales (includes mining, transportation, royalty and processing costs,) for the first quarter of 2020 were $1.86 million, or 353 percent of total revenues, compared to $6.64 million, or 95 percent of total revenue in the same period of 2019.

General and administrative expenses for the first quarter of 2020 were $842,925, or ­­160 percent of total revenue, compared to $1.37 million during the first quarter of 2019. Depreciation for the first quarter of 2020 was $915,052, or 174 percent of total revenue. American Resources incurred interest expense of $500,640 during the first quarter of 2020 compared to $324,854 during the first quarter of 2019. Development costs during the quarter were $128,159, compared to $1.32 million in the fourth quarter of 2019.

The Company did not incur any income tax expense in the first quarter of 2020 as it was able to utilize its available net operating losses ("NOL") carried forward from prior periods of approximately $13,746,391 as of December 31, 2019.....


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