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Intangibles, net 5,880 6,006
+Added: Deferred income taxes 15,113 15,081
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries 13,753 12,371
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Accounts payable to affiliates 691 904
+Added: Revolving credit agreements 17,000 10,000
Current maturities of long-term debt 4,498 3,953
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Pension and other postretirement obligations 5,059 5,183
−Removed: Deferred income taxes 4,206 6,122
Liability for uncertain tax positions 5,795 5,795
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UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: THREE MONTHS ENDED NINE MONTHS ENDED
−Removed: SEPTEMBER 30 SEPTEMBER 30
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
(In thousands, except per share data)
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Cost of sales 46,271 46,784
−Removed: Gross (loss) profit ( 2,174 ) 17,828 7,590 49,318
+Added: Gross profit 7,018 3,357
Earnings of unconsolidated operations 13,307 13,824
−Removed: Contract termination settlement — — — 14,000
Operating expenses
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Amortization of intangible assets 126 727
−Removed: Loss (gain) on sale of assets
+Added: Gain on sale of assets
( 11 ) ( 236 )
−Removed: Asset impairment charges — 3,939 — 3,939
15,568 15,367
−Removed: Operating (loss) profit ( 6,267 ) 9,818 ( 2,703 ) 54,445
+Added: Operating profit 4,757 1,814
Other (income) expense
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Closed mine obligations 455 409
−Removed: Loss (gain) on equity securities 551 316 ( 498 ) 1,676
−Removed: Income from equity method investee — ( 2,156 ) — ( 2,156 )
−Removed: Other contract termination settlements — — — ( 16,882 )
+Added: Gain on equity securities ( 1,041 ) ( 628 )
Other, net ( 214 ) ( 1,725 )
( 816 ) ( 2,554 )
−Removed: (Loss) income before income tax (benefit) provision ( 5,850 ) 11,480 1,775 71,497
−Removed: Income tax (benefit) provision ( 2,018 ) 866 ( 2,605 ) 11,121
−Removed: Net (loss) income $ ( 3,832 ) $ 10,614 $ 4,380 $ 60,376
+Added: Income before income tax provision (benefit) 5,573 4,368
+Added: Income tax provision (benefit) 1,003 ( 1,324 )
+Added: Net income $ 4,570 $ 5,692
Earnings per share:
−Removed: Basic (loss) earnings per share $ ( 0.51 ) $ 1.45 $ 0.59 $ 8.27
−Removed: Diluted (loss) earnings per share $ ( 0.51 ) $ 1.45 $ 0.58 $ 8.24
+Added: Basic earnings per share $ 0.61 $ 0.77
+Added: Diluted earnings per share $ 0.61 $ 0.76
Basic weighted average shares outstanding 7,452 7,428
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UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
−Removed: THREE MONTHS ENDED NINE MONTHS ENDED
−Removed: SEPTEMBER 30 SEPTEMBER 30
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
(In thousands)
−Removed: Net (loss) income $ ( 3,832 ) $ 10,614 $ 4,380 $ 60,376
−Removed: Reclassification of pension and postretirement adjustments into earnings, net of $ 6 and $ 18 tax benefit in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, and net of $ 38 and $ 105 tax benefit in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively.
−Removed: 20 118 59 354
+Added: Net income $ 4,570 $ 5,692
+Added: Reclassification of pension and postretirement adjustments into earnings, net of $ 23 and $ 6 tax benefit in the three months ended March 31, 2024 and March 31, 2023, respectively.
Total other comprehensive income 76 21
−Removed: Comprehensive (loss) income $ ( 3,812 ) $ 10,732 $ 4,439 $ 60,730
+Added: Comprehensive income $ 4,646 $ 5,713
See notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: NINE MONTHS ENDED
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
(In thousands)
Operating activities
−Removed: Net cash provided by operating activities $ 63,020 $ 54,929
+Added: Net cash (used for) provided by operating activities $ ( 9,758 ) $ 6,254
Investing activities
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Reductions of long-term debt ( 1,295 ) ( 1,456 )
−Removed: Net reductions to revolving credit agreements — ( 4,000 )
+Added: Net additions to revolving credit agreements
Cash dividends paid ( 1,630 ) ( 1,557 )
Purchase of treasury shares ( 4,274 ) —
−Removed: Net cash used for financing activities ( 8,046 ) ( 8,942 )
+Added: Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities 1,128 ( 901 )
Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Total increase for the period 17,419 6,749
+Added: Total decrease for the period ( 23,265 ) ( 1,111 )
Balance at the beginning of the period 85,109 110,748
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Stock-based compensation 161 — 403 — — 564
−Removed: Conversion of Class B to Class A shares 1 ( 1 ) — — — —
Net income — — — 5,692 — 5,692
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Balance, March 31, 2023 $ 5,944 $ 1,566 $ 24,109 $ 409,059 $ ( 8,992 ) $ 431,686
−Removed: Stock-based compensation
−Removed: 7 — 2,325 — — 2,332
−Removed: — — — 37,180 — 37,180
−Removed: Cash dividends on Class A and Class B common stock:
−Removed: $ 0.2075 per share
−Removed: — — — ( 1,521 ) — ( 1,521 )
−Removed: Reclassification adjustment to net income, net of tax
−Removed: — — — — 118 118
−Removed: Balance, June 30, 2022 $ 5,769 $ 1,566 $ 19,634 $ 383,574 $ ( 7,940 ) $ 402,603
−Removed: Stock-based compensation 7 — 3,601 — — 3,608
−Removed: Net income — — — 10,614 — 10,614
−Removed: Cash dividends on Class A and Class B common stock:
−Removed: $ 0.2075 per share
−Removed: — — — ( 1,522 ) — ( 1,522 )
−Removed: Reclassification adjustment to net income, net of tax — — — — 118 118
−Removed: Balance, September 30, 2022 $ 5,776 $ 1,566 $ 23,235 $ 392,666 $ ( 7,822 ) $ 415,421
Balance, January 1, 2024 $ 5,883 $ 1,566 $ 28,672 $ 355,873 $ ( 9,654 ) $ 382,340
Stock-based compensation 130 — 401 — — 531
+Added: Purchase of treasury shares ( 128 ) — — ( 4,146 ) — ( 4,274 )
Net income — — — 4,570 — 4,570
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Balance, March 31, 2024 $ 5,885 $ 1,566 $ 29,073 $ 354,667 $ ( 9,578 ) $ 381,613
−Removed: Stock-based compensation
−Removed: 10 — 797 — — 807
−Removed: — — — 2,520 — 2,520
−Removed: Cash dividends on Class A and Class B common stock:
−Removed: $ 0.2175 per share
−Removed: — — — ( 1,633 ) — ( 1,633 )
−Removed: Reclassification adjustment to net income, net of tax
−Removed: — — — — 18 18
−Removed: Balance, June 30, 2023 $ 5,954 $ 1,566 $ 24,906 $ 409,946 $ ( 8,974 ) $ 433,398
−Removed: Stock-based compensation 10 — 1,309 — — 1,319
−Removed: Purchase of treasury shares ( 24 ) — ( 800 ) — — ( 824 )
−Removed: Net loss — — — ( 3,832 ) — ( 3,832 )
−Removed: Cash dividends on Class A and Class B common stock:
−Removed: $ 0.2175 per share
−Removed: — — — ( 1,636 ) — ( 1,636 )
−Removed: Reclassification adjustment to net income, net of tax — — — — 20 20
−Removed: Balance, September 30, 2023 $ 5,940 $ 1,566 $ 25,415 $ 404,478 $ ( 8,954 ) $ 428,445
See notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
+Added: MARCH 31, 2024
(In thousands, except as noted and per share amounts)
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Mitigation Resources of North America ® ("Mitigation Resources") provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions.
−Removed: The Company also has items not directly attributable to a reportable segment.
+Added: The Company has items not directly attributable to a reportable segment that are not included in the reported financial results of the operating segment.
+Added: These items primarily include administrative costs related to public company reporting requirements, including management and board compensation, and the financial results of Bellaire Corporation ("Bellaire"), Mitigation Resources and other developing businesses.
+Added: Bellaire manages the Company’s long-term liabilities related to former Eastern U.S.
+Added: underground mining activities.
Intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: See Note 8 for further discussion of segment reporting.
The Company’s operating segments are further described below:
Coal Mining Segment
−Removed: The Coal Mining segment, operating as North American Coal, LLC ("NACoal"), operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
+Added: The Coal Mining segment operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
Coal is surface mined in North Dakota and Mississippi.
Each mine is fully integrated with its customer's operations.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Coal Mining segment's operating coal mines were:
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Coal Mining segment's operating coal mines were:
The Coteau Properties Company (“Coteau”), Coyote Creek Mining Company, LLC (“Coyote Creek”), The Falkirk Mining Company (“Falkirk”) and Mississippi Lignite Mining Company (“MLMC”).
+Added: Each of these mines supply lignite coal for power generation and delivers its coal production to an adjacent power plant or synfuels plant under a long-term supply contract.
+Added: While MLMC’s coal supply contract contains a take or pay provision, the contract contains a force majeure provision that allows for the temporary suspension of the take or pay provision during the duration of certain specified events beyond the control of either party;
+Added: all other coal supply contracts are requirements contracts.
+Added: Certain coal supply contracts can be terminated early, which would result in a reduction to future earnings.
+Added: The MLMC contract is the only coal supply contract in which the Company is responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
+Added: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within NACCO’s financial statements.
+Added: MLMC sells coal to its customer's Red Hills Power Plant at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
+Added: inflation rates.
+Added: Profitability at MLMC is affected by customer demand for coal and changes in the indices that determine sales price and actual costs incurred.
+Added: As diesel fuel is heavily weighted among the indices used to determine the coal sales price, fluctuations in diesel fuel prices can result in significant fluctuations in earnings at MLMC.
+Added: The Red Hills Power Plant supplies electricity to the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) under a long-term power purchase agreement.
+Added: MLMC’s contract with its customer runs through April 1, 2032.
+Added: TVA’s power portfolio includes coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, natural gas and renewables.
+Added: The decision regarding which power plants to dispatch is determined by TVA.
+Added: Reduction in dispatch of the Red Hills Power Plant will result in reduced earnings at MLMC.
+Added: On December 18, 2023, MLMC received notice from its customer related to an issue that began on December 15, 2023 as a result of an issue that impacted one of two boilers at the Red Hills Power Plant.
+Added: This issue has resulted in a reduction in customer demand which will have a significant impact on the Company's 2024 results of operations.
+Added: Repairs to the boiler are expected to be completed during the second half of 2024.
The Sabine Mining Company (“Sabine”) operates the Sabine Mine in Texas.
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SWEPCO is an American Electric Power (“AEP”) company.
−Removed: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries in the first quarter of 2023 and final reclamation began on April 1, 2023.
+Added: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries and final
+Added: reclamation began on April 1, 2023.
Funding for mine reclamation is the responsibility of SWEPCO, and Sabine receives compensation for providing mine reclamation services.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2023, Sabine and SWEPCO entered into an agreement under which Sabine will provide mine reclamation services through September 30, 2026.
−Removed: On October 1, 2026, SWEPCO will take over and complete the remaining mine reclamation services by acquiring all of the capital stock of Sabine.
−Removed: Falkirk is the sole supplier of lignite coal to the Coal Creek Station power plant.
−Removed: The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality approved Falkirk’s customer's plan for an alternate disposal liner to store coal ash at the Coal Creek Station power plant.
−Removed: In the first quarter of 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency proposed to deny the application.
−Removed: If denied, a new liner or new waste management unit(s) may need to be installed which could result in the temporary suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station.
−Removed: To minimize any impact to operations, Coal Creek Station is moving forward with plans to dry coal combustion residual materials produced by the plant, reducing the need to utilize the lined area in question.
−Removed: See the Government Regulation Update on page 19 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for further information.
−Removed: MLMC is the exclusive supplier of lignite to the Red Hills Power Plant in Ackerman, Mississippi.
−Removed: Choctaw Generation Limited Partnership ("CGLP") leases the Red Hills Power Plant from a Southern Company subsidiary.
−Removed: CGLP's ability to make required payments to the Southern Company subsidiary is dependent on the operational performance of the Red Hills Power Plant.
−Removed: During 2022, Southern Company disclosed that it provided notice to CGLP to terminate the related operating and maintenance agreement.
−Removed: On July 14, 2023, the Southern Company subsidiary agreed to continue operating the plant for CGLP until the associated power off-take agreement ends in 2032, subject to certain terms and conditions.
−Removed: This restructuring had no material impact on the Company's financial statements.
+Added: Sabine will provide mine reclamation services through September 30, 2026.
+Added: On October 1, 2026, SWEPCO is scheduled to acquire all of the capital stock of Sabine and complete the remaining mine reclamation.
At Coteau, Coyote Creek and Falkirk, the Company is paid a management fee per ton of coal or heating unit (MMBtu) delivered.
Each contract specifies the indices and mechanics by which fees change over time, generally in line with broad measures of U.S.
−Removed: The customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine
−Removed: reclamation, and directly or indirectly provide all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
+Added: The customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
This contract structure eliminates exposure to spot coal market price fluctuations while providing income and cash flow with minimal capital investment.
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See Note 6 for further discussion of Coyote Creek's guarantees.
−Removed: Coteau, Coyote Creek, Falkirk and Sabine meet the definition of a variable interest entity ("VIE").
+Added: Coteau, Coyote Creek, Falkirk and Sabine each meet the definition of a variable interest entity ("VIE").
In each case, NACCO is not the primary beneficiary of the VIE as it does not exercise financial control;
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Instead, these contracts are accounted for as equity method investments.
+Added: The Company regularly evaluates if there are reconsideration events which could change the Company's conclusion as to whether these entities meet the definition of a VIE and the determination of the primary beneficiary.
The income before income taxes associated with these VIEs is reported as Earnings of unconsolidated operations on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and the Company’s investment is reported on the line Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.
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To the extent the Unconsolidated Subsidiary performs such final reclamation, it is compensated for providing those services in addition to receiving reimbursement from customers for costs incurred.
−Removed: The MLMC contract is the only operating coal contract in which the Company is responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
−Removed: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within NACCO’s financial statements.
−Removed: MLMC sells coal to its customer at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
−Removed: inflation rates.
−Removed: Profitability at MLMC is affected by customer demand for coal and changes in the indices that determine sales price and actual costs incurred.
−Removed: As diesel fuel is heavily weighted among the indices used to determine the coal sales price, fluctuations in diesel fuel prices can result in significant fluctuations in earnings at MLMC.
−Removed: During the first nine months of 2023, MLMC completed mining in the original mine area and moved to a new mine area, which has resulted in increased costs and a reduction in earnings.
−Removed: MLMC does not anticipate opening additional mine areas through the remaining contract term.
NAMining Segment
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materials handling and processing, product sales and distribution.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2023, NAMining operates in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Virginia and Nebraska.
−Removed: In addition, Sawtooth Mining, LLC ("Sawtooth") provides comprehensive mining services as the exclusive contract miner for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada.
+Added: As of March 31, 2024, NAMining operates in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Nebraska.
+Added: In addition, Sawtooth Mining, LLC ("Sawtooth") has exclusive responsibility for mining and mine closure services for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada, including mine design, construction, operation and maintenance.
Certain of the entities within the NAMining segment are VIEs and are accounted for under the equity method as Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
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Typically, the resulting royalty interest is a cost-free percentage of production revenues for minerals extracted from the acreage.
−Removed: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated net of post-production expenses, and typically has no environmental liability.
+Added: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated
+Added: net of post-production expenses, and typically have no environmental liability.
Royalty interests leased to producers expire upon the expiration of the oil and gas lease and revert to the mineral owner.
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The Minerals Management segment does not currently have any material investments under which it would be required to bear the cost of exploration, production or development.
+Added: The Company's acquisition criteria for building a blended portfolio of mineral and royalty interests includes (i) new wells anticipated to come online within one to two years of investment, (ii) areas with forecasted future development within five years after acquisition and (iii) existing producing wells further along the decline curve that will generate stable cash flow.
+Added: In addition, acquisitions should extend the geographic footprint to diversify across multiple basins with a preliminary focus on the more oil-rich Permian basin and a secondary focus on other diversifying basins to increase regional exposure.
+Added: While the current focus is on the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests, the Company would also consider investments in ORRIs, NPRIs or non-operating working interests under certain circumstances.
+Added: The current acquisition strategy does not contemplate any near-term working interest investments in which the Company would act as the operator.
The Company also manages legacy royalty and mineral interests located in Ohio (Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas), Louisiana (Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley formation natural gas), Texas (Cotton Valley and Austin Chalk formation natural gas), Mississippi (coal), Pennsylvania (coal, coalbed methane and Marcellus shale natural gas), Alabama (coal, coalbed methane and natural gas) and North Dakota (coal, oil and natural gas).
The majority of the Company’s legacy reserves were acquired as part of its historical coal mining operations.
−Removed: On May 2, 2022, Great River Energy (“GRE”) completed the sale of Coal Creek Station and the adjacent high-voltage direct current transmission line to Rainbow Energy Center, LLC (“Rainbow Energy”) and its affiliates.
−Removed: The Coal Sales Agreement (“CSA”) between Falkirk and Rainbow Energy became effective upon the closing of the transaction.
−Removed: Falkirk continues to supply all coal requirements of Coal Creek Station and is paid a management fee per ton of coal delivered.
−Removed: To support the transfer to new ownership, Falkirk agreed to a reduction in the current per ton management fee from the effective date of the CSA through May 31, 2024.
−Removed: After May 31, 2024, the per ton management fee increases to a higher base in line with 2021 fee levels, and thereafter adjusts annually according to an index which tracks broad measures of U.S.
−Removed: Rainbow Energy is responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to operate the mine.
−Removed: The initial production period is expected to run through May 1, 2032, but the CSA may be extended or terminated early under certain circumstances.
−Removed: The Company recognized a gain of $ 30.9 million within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations during the first nine months of 2022 as GRE paid $ 14.0 million in cash, as well as transferred ownership of an office building with an estimated fair value of $ 4.1 million, and conveyed membership units in Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC (“MAG”), a North Dakota-based ethanol business, with an estimated fair value at the transfer date of $ 12.8 million.
−Removed: Prior to receiving the membership units from GRE, the Company held a $ 5.0 million investment in MAG carried at cost, less impairment.
−Removed: Subsequent to the receipt of the additional membership units, the Company began to account for the investment under the equity method of accounting.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2022, the Company recorded $ 2.2 million, which represented its share of MAG's earnings on the "Income from equity method investee" line within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
−Removed: On December 1, 2022, the Company transferred its ownership interest in MAG to HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC (“HLCP”) and received a cash payment of $ 18.6 million during the fourth quarter of 2022.
−Removed: The Company received a payment of $ 1.2 million
−Removed: in the first quarter of 2023 in connection with a post-closing purchase price adjustment, which is included on the line "Other, net" within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
−Removed: The HLCP acquisition agreement includes two contingent earn-out arrangements under which additional payments are possible.
−Removed: The first earn-out is based on the achievement of EBITDA targets through December 31, 2024.
−Removed: The second earn-out is based on the development of a carbon dioxide pipeline that will support a carbon dioxide sequestration project over a four-year period commencing on the transaction closing date.
−Removed: Additional payments to NACCO could range from $ 0 to approximately $ 12.9 million based on achievement of the two earn-outs as well as payment of amounts held in escrow to address potential indemnity claims during the 12-month period following the transaction date.
−Removed: Any future payments associated with the earn-outs or amounts held in escrow will be recognized when realized, consistent with the accounting for gain contingencies.
−Removed: During the first quarter of 2023, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Caddo Creek Resources Company (“Caddo Creek”), acquired 100 % of the membership interests in the Marshall Mine located outside of Marshall, Texas from Advanced Emissions Solutions (“ADES”).
−Removed: Prior to the acquisition, Caddo Creek was performing mine reclamation under a fixed price contract with ADES.
−Removed: The Company received $ 2.2 million of cash, assumed the asset retirement obligation estimated to be approximately $ 1.9 million and recognized a gain of approximately $ 0.3 million in the first quarter of 2023.
+Added: On December 1, 2022, the Company transferred its ownership interest in Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC (“MAG”), a North Dakota-based ethanol business to HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC (“HLCP”).
+Added: The Company received a payment of $ 1.2 million in the first quarter of 2023 in connection with a post-closing purchase price adjustment, which is included on the line "Other, net" within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Basis of Presentation:
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GAAP for complete financial statements.
−Removed: In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position of the Company at September 30, 2023, the results of its operations, comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 have been included.
+Added: In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position of the Company at March 31, 2024, the results of its operations, comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in equity for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 have been included.
These Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
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To identify the performance obligations, the Company considers all of the goods or services promised in the contract regardless of whether they are explicitly stated or are implied by customary business practices.
−Removed: Each mine has a contract with its respective customer that represents a contract under ASC 606.
+Added: Each mine or mine area has a contract with its respective customer that represents a contract under ASC 606.
For its consolidated entities, the Company’s performance obligations vary by contract and consist of the following:
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Fluctuations in revenue from period to period generally result from changes in customer demand.
−Removed: At NAMining, the management service is primarily to oversee the operation of the equipment, and delivery of aggregates or other minerals is the performance obligation accounted for as a series.
+Added: At NAMining, the management service to oversee the operation of the equipment, and delivery of aggregates or other minerals is the performance obligation accounted for as a series.
Performance momentarily creates an asset that the customer simultaneously receives and consumes;
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Revenue from part sales is recognized upon transfer of control of the parts to the customer.
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment enters into contracts which grant third-party lessees the right to explore, develop, produce and sell minerals controlled by the Company.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment enters into contracts which grant the right to explore, develop, produce and sell minerals controlled by the Company.
These arrangements result in the transfer of mineral rights for a period of time;
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The mineral rights revert back to the Company at the expiration of the contract.
−Removed: Under these contracts, granting exclusive right, title, and interest in and to minerals is the performance obligation.
+Added: Under these contracts, granting exclusive right, title, and interest in and to minerals, if any, is the performance obligation.
The performance obligation under these contracts represents a series of distinct goods or services whereby each day of access that is provided is distinct.
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As the amount of consideration the Company will ultimately be entitled to is entirely susceptible to factors outside its control, the entire amount of variable consideration is constrained at contract inception.
−Removed: The Company believes that the provisions of royalty contracts are customary in the industry.
+Added: The Company believes that the pricing provisions of royalty contracts are customary in the industry.
Up-front lease bonus payments represent the fixed portion of the transaction price and are recognized over the primary term of the contract, which is generally three to five years .
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Fluctuations in revenue from period to period generally result from changes in customer demand.
−Removed: Under the permittee-responsible stream and wetland mitigation model, the contracts are generally structured as agreements under which Mitigation Resources is reimbursed for all costs incurred in performing the required mitigation plus an agreed profit percentage or a fixed fee.
+Added: Under the permittee-responsible stream and wetland mitigation model, the contracts are generally structured as a management fee agreement under which Mitigation Resources is reimbursed for all costs incurred in performing the required mitigation plus an agreed profit percentage or a fixed fee.
The mitigation services provided is the performance obligation and is accounted for as a series.
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At the Thacker Pass lithium project, in addition to management fee income, the customer will reimburse Sawtooth for up to $ 50 million of capital expenditures.
−Removed: The amount is variable until the equipment is acquired.
−Removed: At the time the equipment is acquired, the variability is resolved as the compensation is fixed.
Sawtooth will recognize revenue over the estimated useful life of the asset on a straight-line basis as the performance obligation is satisfied over time.
−Removed: Sawtooth acquired $ 23.1 million of equipment for this project during the first nine months of 2023.
−Removed: Revenue recognized by Sawtooth in connection with its capital assets was immaterial in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: Sawtooth recognized $ 1.5 million and $ 0.1 million in revenue for reimbursable costs during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: In accordance with the Thacker Pass mining agreement, the customer received a $ 3.5 million advance from Sawtooth, which is included in the long-term contract asset.
+Added: The customer will pay a $ 4.7 million success fee to Sawtooth upon achieving commercial mining milestones or repay the $ 3.5 million advance if such commercial mining milestones are not met.
Prior Period Performance Obligations
The Company records royalty income in the month production is delivered to the purchaser.
−Removed: As a non-operator, the Company has limited visibility into when new wells start producing and production statements may not be received for 30 to 90 days or more after the date production is delivered.
+Added: As a mineral owner, the Company has limited visibility into when new wells start producing, and production statements may not be received for 30 to 90 days or more after the date production is delivered.
As a result, the Company is required to estimate the amount of production delivered to the purchaser of the product and the price that will be received for the sale of the product.
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The difference between the Company’s estimates and the actual amounts received is recorded in the month that payment is received from the third-party lessee.
−Removed: For the three months ended September 30, 2023 and
−Removed: 2022, royalty income recognized in the reporting period related to performance obligations satisfied in prior reporting periods was immaterial.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, royalty income recognized in the reporting period related to performance obligations satisfied in prior reporting periods was $ 1.4 million.
−Removed: For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, royalty income of $ 2.1 million was recognized for a settlement related to the Company’s ownership interest in certain mineral rights.
+Added: For the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, royalty income recognized in the reporting period related to performance obligations satisfied in prior reporting periods was immaterial.
Disaggregation of Revenue
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See Note 8 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of segment reporting.
−Removed: THREE MONTHS ENDED NINE MONTHS ENDED
−Removed: SEPTEMBER 30 SEPTEMBER 30
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: The following table disaggregates revenue by major sources as of March 31:
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
Timing of Revenue Recognition
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Contract Balances
−Removed: The opening and closing balances of the Company’s current and long-term accounts receivable, contract assets and contract liabilities are as follows:
+Added: The opening and closing balances of the Company’s current and long-term contract assets and liabilities and receivables are as follows:
Contract balances
−Removed: Trade accounts receivable Contract asset (current) Contract asset
+Added: Trade accounts receivable Contract asset
(long-term) Contract liability (current) Contract liability (long-term)
Balance, January 1, 2024 $ 37,429 $ 3,712 $ 878 $ 1,470
−Removed: Balance, September 30, 2023 29,738 — 3,625 1,299 1,604
+Added: Balance, March 31, 2024 27,958 3,500 930 2,117
Increase (decrease) $ ( 9,471 ) $ ( 212 ) $ 52 $ 647
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Therefore, at the time any such up-front payment is received, a contract liability is recorded which represents deferred revenue.
−Removed: The amount of royalty revenue recognized in the three months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 included in the opening contract liability was $ 0.3 million and $ 0.2 million, respectively.
−Removed: The amount of royalty revenue recognized in both of the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 included in the opening contract liability was $ 0.7 million.
+Added: The amount of royalty revenue recognized in both of the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 included in the opening contract liability was $ 0.2 million.
This revenue consists of up-front lease bonus payments received under royalty contracts that are recognized over the primary term of the royalty contracts, which are generally three to five years .
−Removed: The Company expects to recognize an additional $ 0.8 million in the remainder of 2023, $ 0.7 million in 2024, $ 1.3 million in 2025 and $ 0.1 million in both 2026 and 2027 related to the contract liability remaining at September 30, 2023.
+Added: The Company expects to recognize an additional $ 0.9 million in the remainder of 2024, $ 1.2 million in 2025, $ 0.1 million in 2026, less than $ 0.1 million in 2027 and $ 0.8 million in the years after 2027 related to the contract liability remaining at March 31, 2024.
The difference between the opening and closing balances of the Company’s contract balances results from the timing difference between the Company’s performance and the customer’s payment.
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Total inventories $ 75,755 $ 77,000
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded a $ 2.4 million and $ 6.6 million inventory impairment charge, respectively, in the line “Cost of sales” in the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as mining costs exceeded net realizable value at MLMC.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded a $ 2.5 million and a $ 2.4 million inventory impairment charge, respectively, in the line “Cost of sales” in the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as mining costs exceeded net realizable value at MLMC.
NOTE 4— Stockholders' Equity
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On November 7, 2023, the Company's Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program ("2023 Stock Repurchase Program") providing for the purchase of up to $ 20.0 million of the Company’s outstanding Class A common stock through December 31, 2025.
−Removed: During both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased 24,762 shares of Class A Common Stock under the 2021 Stock Repurchase Program for an aggregate purchase price of $ 0.8 million.
+Added: NACCO's previous repurchase program would have expired on December 31, 2023 but was terminated and replaced by the 2023 Stock Repurchase Program.
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company repurchased 127,687 shares of Class A Common Stock under the 2023 Stock Repurchase Program for an aggregate purchase price of $ 4.3 million.
The timing and amount of any repurchases under the 2023 Stock Repurchase Program are determined at the discretion of the Company's management based on a number of factors, including the availability of capital, other capital allocation alternatives, market conditions for the Company's Class A Common Stock and other legal and contractual restrictions.
The 2023 Stock Repurchase Program does not require the Company to acquire any specific number of shares and may be modified, suspended, extended or terminated by the Company without prior notice and may be executed through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise.
−Removed: All or part of the repurchases under the 2021 Stock Repurchase Program may be implemented under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which would allow repurchases under pre-set terms at times when the Company might otherwise be restricted from doing so under applicable securities laws.
+Added: All or part of the repurchases under the 2023 Stock Repurchase Program may be
+Added: implemented under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which would allow repurchases under pre-set terms at times when the Company might otherwise be restricted from doing so under applicable securities laws.
NOTE 5— Fair Value Disclosure
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Description Date (Level 1) (Level 2) (Level 3)
−Removed: September 30, 2023
+Added: March 31, 2024
Equity securities $ 18,284 $ 18,284 $ — $ —
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therefore, they are classified as Level 1 within the fair value hierarchy.
−Removed: Company recognized a loss of $ 0.4 million and a gain of $ 0.7 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, and a loss of $ 0.5 million and $ 2.7 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively, related to the Mine Water Treatment Trust.
+Added: The fair value of the Mine Water Treatment Trust was $ 11.9 million and $ 11.2 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and is included in Other non-current assets in the accompanying Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: The Company recognized a gain of $ 0.7 million and $ 0.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, related to the Mine Water Treatment Trust.
Prior to 2023, the Company invested $ 2.0 million in equity securities of a public company with a diversified portfolio of royalty producing mineral interests.
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therefore, it is classified as Level 1 within the fair value hierarchy.
−Removed: The Company recognized a loss of $ 0.2 million during both, the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, and a gain of $ 0.2 million and $ 1.0 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively, related to the investment in these equity securities.
−Removed: The change in fair value of equity securities is reported on the line Loss (gain) on equity securities in the Other (income) expense section of the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
−Removed: There were no transfers into or out of Levels 1, 2 or 3 during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022.
+Added: The fair value of this investment was $ 6.4 million and $ 6.0 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and is included in Other non-current assets in the accompanying Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets.
+Added: The Company recognized a gain of $ 0.4 million and $ 0.1 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, related to the investment in these equity securities.
+Added: The change in fair value of equity securities is reported on the line Gain on equity securities in the Other (income) expense section of the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
+Added: There were no transfers into or out of Levels 1, 2 or 3 during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023.
NOTE 6— Unconsolidated Subsidiaries
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See Note 1 for a discussion of these entities.
−Removed: The Investment in the unconsolidated subsidiaries and related tax positions totaled $ 11.5 million and $ 14.9 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
−Removed: The Company's maximum risk of loss relating to these entities is limited to its invested capital, which was $ 4.7 million and $ 7.1 million at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
−Removed: Earnings of unconsolidated operations were $ 12.8 million and $ 37.7 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively, and $ 14.6 million and $ 43.8 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively.
−Removed: NACoal is a party to certain guarantees related to Coyote Creek.
−Removed: Under certain circumstances of default or termination of Coyote Creek’s Lignite Sales Agreement (“LSA”), NACoal would be obligated for payment of a "make-whole" amount to Coyote Creek’s third-party lenders.
+Added: The Investment in the unconsolidated subsidiaries and related tax positions totaled $ 13.8 million and $ 12.4 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: The Company's maximum risk of loss relating to these entities is limited to its invested capital, which was $ 4.8 million and $ 5.0 million at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: Earnings of unconsolidated operations were $ 13.3 million and $ 13.8 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: NACCO Natural Resources Corporation ("NACCO Natural Resources"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NACCO, is a party to certain guarantees related to Coyote Creek.
+Added: Under certain circumstances of default or termination of Coyote Creek’s Lignite Sales Agreement (“LSA”), NACCO Natural Resources would be obligated for payment of a "make-whole" amount to Coyote Creek’s third-party lenders.
The “make-whole” amount is based on the excess, if any, of the discounted value of the remaining scheduled debt payments over the principal amount.
−Removed: In addition, in the event Coyote Creek’s LSA is terminated on or after January 1, 2024 by Coyote Creek’s customers, NACoal is obligated to purchase Coyote Creek’s dragline and rolling stock for the then net book value of those assets.
−Removed: To date, no payments have been required from NACoal since the inception of these guarantees.
−Removed: The Company believes that the likelihood NACoal would be required to perform under the guarantees is remote, and no amounts related to these guarantees have been recorded.
+Added: In addition, in the event Coyote Creek’s LSA is terminated by Coyote Creek’s customers, NACCO Natural Resources is obligated to purchase Coyote Creek’s dragline and rolling stock for the then net book value of those assets.
+Added: To date, no payments have been required from NACCO Natural Resources since the inception of these guarantees.
+Added: The Company believes that the likelihood NACCO Natural Resources would be required to perform under the guarantees is remote, and no amounts related to these guarantees have been recorded.
NOTE 7— Contingencies
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underground mining activities.
−Removed: All financial statement line items below operating profit (other income including interest expense and interest income, the (benefit) provision for income taxes and net income) are presented and discussed within this Form 10-Q on a consolidated basis.
−Removed: The following table presents revenues, operating (loss) profit, expenditures for property, plant and equipment and acquisition of mineral interests and depreciation, depletion and amortization expense:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS ENDED NINE MONTHS ENDED
−Removed: SEPTEMBER 30 SEPTEMBER 30
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: All financial statement line items below operating profit (other income including interest expense and interest income, the provision (benefit) for income taxes and net income) are presented and discussed within this Form 10-Q on a consolidated basis.
+Added: The following table presents Revenues, Cost of sales, Earnings of unconsolidated operations, Operating expenses, Operating profit (loss), Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and acquisition of mineral interests and Depreciation, depletion and amortization expense:
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
Coal Mining $ 15,545 $ 20,653
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Total $ 53,289 $ 50,141
−Removed: Operating (loss) profit
+Added: Cost of sales
Coal Mining $ 20,943 $ 25,878
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Total $ 46,271 $ 46,784
+Added: Earnings of unconsolidated operations
+Added: Coal Mining $ 12,007 $ 12,466
+Added: NAMining 1,365 1,358
+Added: Minerals Management ( 65 ) —
+Added: Total $ 13,307 $ 13,824
+Added: Operating expenses*
+Added: Coal Mining $ 7,026 $ 6,928
+Added: NAMining 1,822 1,920
+Added: Minerals Management 1,042 1,189
+Added: Unallocated Items 5,678 5,330
+Added: Total $ 15,568 $ 15,367
+Added: Operating profit (loss)
+Added: Coal Mining $ ( 417 ) $ 313
+Added: NAMining 2,355 830
+Added: Minerals Management 7,930 6,044
+Added: Unallocated Items ( 5,128 ) ( 5,353 )
+Added: Eliminations 17 ( 20 )
+Added: Total $ 4,757 $ 1,814
+Added: *Operating expenses consist of Selling, general and administrative expenses, Amortization of intangible assets and (Gain) loss on sale of assets.
+Added: THREE MONTHS ENDED
Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and acquisition of mineral interests
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Total $ 5,692 $ 7,019
+Added: Asset information by segment is not discretely maintained for internal reporting or used in evaluating performance.
- Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
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Mitigation Resources of North America ® ("Mitigation Resources") provides stream and wetland mitigation solutions.
−Removed: The Company has items not directly attributable to a reportable segment that are not included as part of the measurement of segment operating profit.
−Removed: These items primarily include administrative costs related to public company reporting requirements at the parent company and the financial results of Mitigation Resources and Bellaire Corporation ("Bellaire").
+Added: The Company has items not directly attributable to a reportable segment that are not included in the reported financial results of the operating segment.
+Added: These items primarily include administrative costs related to public company reporting requirements, including management and board compensation, and the financial results of Bellaire Corporation ("Bellaire"), Mitigation Resources and other developing businesses.
Bellaire manages the Company’s long-term liabilities related to former Eastern U.S.
underground mining activities.
−Removed: All financial statement line items below operating profit (other income, including interest expense and interest income, the (benefit) provision for income taxes and net income) are presented and discussed within this Form 10-Q on a consolidated basis.
+Added: All financial statement line items below operating profit (other income, including interest expense and interest income, the provision (benefit) for income taxes and net income) are presented and discussed within this Form 10-Q on a consolidated basis.
The Company’s operating segments are further described below:
Coal Mining Segment
−Removed: The Coal Mining segment, operating as North American Coal, LLC ("NACoal"), operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
+Added: The Coal Mining segment operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies pursuant to a service-based business model.
Coal is surface mined in North Dakota and Mississippi.
Each mine is fully integrated with its customer's operations.
−Removed: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Coal Mining segment's operating coal mines were:
+Added: During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Coal Mining segment's operating coal mines were:
The Coteau Properties Company (“Coteau”), Coyote Creek Mining Company, LLC (“Coyote Creek”), The Falkirk Mining Company (“Falkirk”) and Mississippi Lignite Mining Company (“MLMC”).
+Added: Each of these mines supply lignite coal for power generation and delivers its coal production to an adjacent power plant or synfuels plant under a long-term supply contract.
+Added: While MLMC’s coal supply contract contains a take or pay provision, the contract contains a force majeure provision that allows for the temporary suspension of the take or pay provision during the duration of certain specified events beyond the control of either party;
+Added: all other coal supply contracts are requirements contracts.
+Added: Certain coal supply contracts can be terminated early, which would result in a reduction to future earnings.
+Added: The MLMC contract is the only coal supply contract in which the Company is responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
+Added: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within NACCO’s financial statements.
+Added: MLMC sells coal to its customer's Red Hills Power Plant at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
+Added: inflation rates.
+Added: Profitability at MLMC is affected by customer demand for coal and changes in the indices that determine sales price and actual costs incurred.
+Added: As diesel fuel is heavily weighted among the indices used to determine the coal sales price, fluctuations in diesel fuel prices can result in significant fluctuations in earnings at MLMC.
+Added: The Red Hills Power Plant supplies electricity to the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) under a long-term power purchase agreement.
+Added: MLMC’s contract with its customer runs through April 1, 2032.
+Added: TVA’s power portfolio includes coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, natural gas and renewables.
+Added: The decision regarding which power plants to dispatch is determined by TVA.
+Added: Reduction in dispatch of the Red Hills Power Plant will result in reduced earnings at MLMC.
+Added: On December 18, 2023, MLMC received notice from its customer related to an issue that began on December 15, 2023 as a result of an issue that impacted one of two boilers at the Red Hills Power Plant.
+Added: This issue has resulted in a reduction in
+Added: customer demand which will have a significant impact on the Company's 2024 results of operations.
+Added: Repairs to the boiler are expected to be completed during the second half of 2024.
The Sabine Mining Company (“Sabine”) operates the Sabine Mine in Texas.
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SWEPCO is an American Electric Power (“AEP”) company.
−Removed: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries in the first quarter of 2023 and final reclamation began on April 1, 2023.
+Added: As a result of the early retirement of the Pirkey Plant, Sabine ceased deliveries and final reclamation began on April 1, 2023.
Funding for mine reclamation is the responsibility of SWEPCO, and Sabine receives compensation for providing mine reclamation services.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2023, Sabine and SWEPCO entered into an agreement under which Sabine will provide mine reclamation services through September 30, 2026.
−Removed: On October 1, 2026, SWEPCO will take over and complete the remaining mine reclamation services by acquiring all of the capital stock of Sabine.
−Removed: MLMC is the exclusive supplier of lignite to the Red Hills Power Plant in Ackerman, Mississippi.
−Removed: Choctaw Generation Limited Partnership ("CGLP") leases the Red Hills Power Plant from a Southern Company subsidiary.
−Removed: CGLP's ability to make required payments to the Southern Company subsidiary is dependent on the operational performance of the Red Hills Power Plant.
−Removed: During 2022, Southern Company disclosed that it provided notice to CGLP to terminate the related operating and maintenance agreement.
−Removed: On July 14, 2023, the Southern Company subsidiary agreed to continue operating the plant for CGLP until the associated power off-take agreement ends in 2032, subject to certain terms and conditions.
−Removed: This restructuring had no material impact on the Company's financial statements.
+Added: Sabine will provide mine reclamation services through September 30, 2026.
+Added: On October 1, 2026, SWEPCO is scheduled to acquire all of the capital stock of Sabine and complete the remaining mine reclamation.
At Coteau, Coyote Creek and Falkirk, the Company is paid a management fee per ton of coal or heating unit (MMBtu) delivered.
Each contract specifies the indices and mechanics by which fees change over time, generally in line with broad measures of U.S.
−Removed: The customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine
−Removed: reclamation, and directly or indirectly provide all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
+Added: The customers are responsible for funding all mine operating costs, including final mine reclamation, and directly or indirectly providing all of the capital required to build and operate the mine.
This contract structure eliminates exposure to spot coal market price fluctuations while providing income and cash flow with minimal capital investment.
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See Note 6 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of Coyote Creek's guarantees.
−Removed: Coteau, Coyote Creek, Falkirk and Sabine meet the definition of a variable interest entity ("VIE").
+Added: Coteau, Coyote Creek, Falkirk and Sabine each meet the definition of a variable interest entity ("VIE").
In each case, NACCO is not the primary beneficiary of the VIE as it does not exercise financial control;
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Instead, these contracts are accounted for as equity method investments.
+Added: The Company regularly evaluates if there are reconsideration events which could change the Company's conclusion as to whether these entities meet the definition of a VIE and the determination of the primary beneficiary.
The income before income taxes associated with these VIEs is reported as Earnings of unconsolidated operations on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and the Company’s investment is reported on the line Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.
The mines that meet the definition of a VIE are referred to collectively as the “Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.” For tax purposes, the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries are included within the NACCO consolidated U.S.
−Removed: therefore, the Income tax (benefit) provision line on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations includes income taxes related to these entities.
+Added: therefore, the Income tax provision (benefit) line on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations includes income taxes related to these entities.
See Note 6 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information on the Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
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To the extent the Unconsolidated Subsidiary performs such final reclamation, it is compensated for providing those services in addition to receiving reimbursement from customers for costs incurred.
−Removed: The MLMC contract is the only operating coal contract in which the Company is responsible for all operating costs, capital requirements and final mine reclamation;
−Removed: therefore, MLMC is consolidated within NACCO’s financial statements.
−Removed: MLMC sells coal to its customer at a contractually agreed-upon price which adjusts monthly, primarily based on changes in the level of established indices which reflect general U.S.
−Removed: inflation rates.
−Removed: Profitability at MLMC is affected by customer demand for coal and changes in the indices that determine sales price and actual costs incurred.
−Removed: As diesel fuel is heavily weighted among the indices used to determine the coal sales price, fluctuations in diesel fuel prices can result in significant fluctuations in earnings at MLMC.
−Removed: During the first nine months of 2023, MLMC completed mining in the original mine area and moved to a new mine area, which has resulted in increased costs and a reduction in earnings.
−Removed: MLMC does not anticipate opening additional mine areas through the remaining contract term.
NAMining Segment
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materials handling and processing, product sales and distribution.
−Removed: As of September 30, 2023, NAMining operates in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Virginia and Nebraska.
−Removed: In addition, Sawtooth Mining, LLC ("Sawtooth") provides comprehensive mining services as the exclusive contract miner for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada.
+Added: As of March 31, 2024, NAMining operates in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia and Nebraska.
+Added: In addition, Sawtooth Mining, LLC ("Sawtooth") has exclusive responsibility for mining and mine closure services for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada, including mine design, construction, operation and maintenance .
Certain of the entities within the NAMining segment are VIEs and are accounted for under the equity method as Unconsolidated Subsidiaries.
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Typically, the resulting royalty interest is a cost-free percentage of production revenues for minerals extracted from the acreage.
−Removed: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated
−Removed: net of post-production expenses, and typically has no environmental liability.
+Added: A holder of royalty interests is generally not responsible for capital expenditures or lease operating expenses, but royalty interests may be calculated net of post-production expenses, and typically have no environmental liability.
Royalty interests leased to producers expire upon the expiration of the oil and gas lease and revert to the mineral owner.
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The Minerals Management segment does not currently have any material investments under which it would be required to bear the cost of exploration, production or development.
+Added: The Company's acquisition criteria for building a blended portfolio of mineral and royalty interests includes (i) new wells anticipated to come online within one to two years of investment, (ii) areas with forecasted future development within five years after acquisition and (iii) existing producing wells further along the decline curve that will generate stable cash flow.
+Added: In addition, acquisitions should extend the geographic footprint to diversify across multiple basins with a preliminary focus on the more oil-rich Permian basin and a secondary focus on other diversifying basins to increase regional exposure.
+Added: While the current focus is on the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests, the Company would also consider investments in ORRIs, NPRIs or non-operating working interests under certain circumstances.
+Added: The current acquisition strategy does not contemplate any near-term working interest investments in which the Company would act as the operator.
The Company also manages legacy royalty and mineral interests located in Ohio (Utica and Marcellus shale natural gas), Louisiana (Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley formation natural gas), Texas (Cotton Valley and Austin Chalk formation natural gas), Mississippi (coal), Pennsylvania (coal, coalbed methane and Marcellus shale natural gas), Alabama (coal, coalbed methane and natural gas) and North Dakota (coal, oil and natural gas).
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Government Regulation Update
−Removed: Other than as described in the following section, there were no significant changes to the Company’s government regulation matters subsequent to December 31, 2022.
−Removed: Information regarding the Company’s government regulation matters is outlined in Part I, Item 1.
−Removed: “Business” in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) Emissions
−Removed: In July 2019, the U.S.
−Removed: Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) finalized a rule that repealed the Clean Power Plan (“CPP”) that had been finalized in 2015 and established new regulations addressing GHG emissions from existing coal-fueled electric generation units, referred to as the Affordable Clean Energy (“ACE”) rule.
−Removed: The ACE rule developed emission guidelines that states must use when developing plans to regulate GHG emissions from existing coal-fueled electric generating units (“EGUs”).
−Removed: In response to challenges brought by environmental groups and certain states, the U.S.
−Removed: Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C.
−Removed: Circuit Court”) vacated the ACE rule, including its repeal of the CPP, in January 2021 and remanded the rule to the EPA for further action.
−Removed: On June 30, 2022, the U.S.
−Removed: Supreme Court issued an opinion reversing the D.C.
−Removed: Circuit Court's decision, and finding that the EPA exceeded its statutory authority when the EPA set emission requirements in the CPP based on generation shifting.
−Removed: On May 11, 2023, the EPA proposed a new rule imposing limits on GHG emissions from existing coal and new natural-gas electric generating units, which could compel such facilities to install additional pollution controls or shut down ("CPP2").
−Removed: The proposed CPP2 includes guidelines for carbon dioxide ("CO2") emissions from existing EGUs with a proposed compliance date of January 1, 2030.
−Removed: For coal-fired steam EGUs that plan to operate past January 1, 2040, the EPA is proposing a best system of emissions reduction ("BSER") of carbon capture and sequestration/storage ("CCS") with 90 percent capture of CO2 at the stack.
−Removed: For coal-fired steam EGUs that will permanently cease operations after December 31, 2031, but before January 1, 2040, the EPA is proposing a BSER of 40 percent natural gas co-firing on a heat input basis.
−Removed: Coal-fired steam EGUs that will
−Removed: permanently cease operations between December 31, 2031 and January 1, 2035, will be subject to an annual capacity factor limit, and for units that will permanently cease operations before January 1, 2032, the EPA is proposing a BSER of routine methods of operation and maintenance that maintain current emission rates.
−Removed: Each of the EGUs supplied by the Company would be subject to these proposed requirements.
−Removed: Additionally, the proposed CPP2 contains other actions, including revised new source performance standards for GHG emissions from new and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired steam EGUs that undertake a large modification.
+Added: On April 25, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a pre-publication version of the final rules for Greenhouse Gas (“GHG”) emissions and Mercury Air Toxics Standards (“MATS”).
+Added: The final MATS and GHG rules will require compliance as early as 2027 and 2030, respectively.
+Added: The Company is in the process of determining the implications of these rules.
+Added: Previous efforts by the EPA were met with extensive litigation and the Company anticipates a similar response to the new GHG and MATS rules.
+Added: Preliminary review of the GHG rules indicate that the compliance deadline for coal-fired plants planning to install carbon capture and sequestration/storage technology has been extended to January 1, 2032.
+Added: If a coal-fired plant intends to close prior to 2032, no controls will be required and if a plant plans to close between 2032 and 2039, they must begin co-firing with natural gas by January 1, 2030.
+Added: Preliminary review of the final MATS rules indicate that the EPA significantly reduced the fine particulate matter emission standard for all existing coal-fired electric generating units and will require continuous monitoring equipment to demonstrate compliance.
+Added: Furthermore, the EPA elected to remove the lignite subcategory for mercury limits and will require lignite-fired electric generating units to meet the same standard as other types of coal.
+Added: Substantially all of the Coal Mining segment's profits are derived from long-term mining contracts.
These new rules may raise the cost of fossil fuel generated energy, making coal-fired power plants less competitive, and/or result in early closure which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these plants, including closure of the Company's coal mines.
Any such closure of the Company's mines could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Clean Air Act ("CAA")
−Removed: The process of burning coal can cause many compounds and impurities in the coal to be released into the air, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides (“NOx”), mercury, particulates and other matter.
−Removed: The CAA and the corresponding state laws that extensively regulate the emissions of materials into the air affect coal mining operations both directly and indirectly.
−Removed: Direct impacts on coal mining operations occur through CAA permitting requirements and/or emission control requirements relating to air contaminants, especially particulate matter.
−Removed: Indirect impacts on coal mining operations occur through regulation of the air emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, particulate matter and other compounds emitted by coal-fired power plants.
−Removed: The EPA has promulgated or proposed regulations that impose tighter emission restrictions in a number of areas, some of which are currently subject to litigation.
−Removed: The general effect of tighter restrictions is to reduce demand for coal.
−Removed: Ongoing reduction in coal’s share of the capacity for power generation could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The CAA requires the EPA to review national ambient air quality standards (“NAAQS”) every five years to determine whether revisions to current standards is appropriate.
−Removed: In addition, states are required to submit to the EPA revisions to their state implementation plans ("SIPs") that demonstrate the manner in which the states will attain NAAQS every time a NAAQS is issued or revised by the EPA.
−Removed: The EPA has adopted NAAQS for several pollutants, which continue to be reviewed periodically for revisions.
−Removed: When the EPA adopts new, more stringent NAAQS for a pollutant, some states have to change their existing SIPs.
−Removed: If a state fails to revise its SIP and obtain EPA approval, the EPA may adopt regulations to affect the revision.
−Removed: Coal mining operations and coal-fired power plants that emit particulate matter or other specified material are, therefore, affected by changes in the SIPs.
−Removed: Through this process over the last few years, the EPA has reduced the NAAQS for particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen oxides.
−Removed: The Company's coal mining operations and power generation customers may be directly affected when the revisions to the SIPs are made and incorporate new NAAQS for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone and particulate matter.
−Removed: In March 2019, the EPA published a final rule that retains the current primary (health-based) NAAQS for sulfur oxides ("SOx") without revision.
−Removed: The current primary standard is set at a level of 75 parts per billion, as the 99th percentile of daily maximum 1-hour sulfur dioxide concentrations, averaged over 3 years.
−Removed: On January 6, 2023, the EPA proposed to lower the level of the particulate matter.
−Removed: If enacted as proposed, this rule would require fossil fuel generating units to install additional emission reducing technologies, which will ultimately increase the cost of fossil fuel generated energy or cause potential EGU retirements.
−Removed: In 2011, the EPA finalized the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ("CSAPR") to address interstate transport of pollutants.
−Removed: This affects states in the eastern half of the U.S.
−Removed: CSAPR does not affect EGUs in North Dakota.
−Removed: This rule imposes additional emission restrictions on coal-fired power plants to attain ozone and fine particulate NAAQS.
−Removed: The EPA began implementation of the rule in 2015, when Phase I emission reductions in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide became effective.
−Removed: In 2019, certain states submitted SIPs to the EPA in response to the 2015 ozone standard reduction.
−Removed: The SIPs were rejected by the EPA on February 13, 2023.
−Removed: On March 15, 2023, the EPA signed the Federal Good Neighbor Plan for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS (“Final FIP”), which provides federal implementation plan ("FIP") requirements for 23 states, including Mississippi where MLMC operates, and requires significant reductions of NOx from power plants and industrial sources in these states.
−Removed: The rule includes emission limits for NOx for fossil fuel-fired EGUs and a “backstop daily emissions rate” for large coal-fired EGUs if they exceed specified limits.
−Removed: The EPA’s action to deny the SIPs was challenged in various courts, including the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Fifth Circuit”).
−Removed: The Fifth Circuit issued a stay of the SIP rejection in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi which prevents the Final FIP from going into effect pending the outcome of the litigation challenges to the SIP rejection and Final FIP.
−Removed: On June 5, 2023, the EPA published the Final FIP in the Federal Register.
−Removed: The Final FIP decreases, over time, the ozone-season NOx allowances allocated to generators in the states not affected by the judicial stay beginning in 2024 by assuming that participants in this cap-and-trade program had or would optimize existing NOx controls and later install additional NOx controls.
−Removed: The Company cannot
−Removed: predict the outcome of the legal challenges to the:
−Removed: (i) various state disapprovals;
−Removed: (ii) the Final FIP promulgated on June 5, 2023;
−Removed: and (iii) the interim final rule promulgated on July 31, 2023 that seeks to address the judicial orders.
−Removed: On July 31, 2023, the EPA promulgated an interim final rule (“interim FIP”) that addresses the various judicial orders where the SIP rejection has been stayed.
−Removed: The interim FIP requires these states to return to the previously approved NOx trading program and emission caps.
−Removed: The interim FIP maintains the state emissions budgets, unit level allowance allocation provisions, and banked allowance holdings reflecting the status quo for the power plants in these states under the Group 2 trading program.
−Removed: Should the Final FIP be fully implemented in states where a stay has been issued, the rule could influence the closure of some coal-fired EGUs that have not installed selective catalytic reduction technologies, potentially including the EGU supplied by MLMC.
−Removed: Should the interim FIP be implemented, it could result in an increase in the cost to comply with emission limits as the pool of available NOx emission credits will be reduced.
−Removed: Under the CAA, the EPA also adopts national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants.
−Removed: In December 2011, the EPA adopted a final rule called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (“MATS”), which applies to new and existing coal-fired EGUs.
−Removed: This rule requires mercury emission reductions in mercury-containing particulate matter.
−Removed: In 2020, the EPA issued a final rule reversing a prior finding and determined that it is not “appropriate and necessary” under the CAA to regulate hazardous air pollutant emissions from coal-fired power plants.
−Removed: On February 9, 2022 the EPA proposed a rule to revoke the EPA's 2020 finding and to reaffirm the agency’s 2016 finding that it remained “appropriate and necessary” to regulate mercury-containing particulate matter.
−Removed: The EPA finalized the 2022 proposed rule on March 6, 2023, revoking the 2020 finding and concluding that it is appropriate and necessary to regulate mercury-containing particulate matter.
−Removed: In April 2023, the EPA proposed corresponding revisions to MATS.
−Removed: These revisions would remove the mercury emission limit for lignite-fired EGUs and require particulate emission reductions for all coal-fired EGUs.
−Removed: If enacted as proposed, this rule could influence the closure of additional coal-fired EGUs, potentially including all of the EGUs supplied by the Company.
−Removed: The Company's power generation customers must incur substantial costs to control emissions to meet all of the CAA requirements, including the requirements under MATS and the EPA's regional haze program.
−Removed: These costs raise the price of coal-generated electricity, making coal-fired power less competitive with other sources of electricity, thereby reducing demand for coal.
−Removed: If the Company's customers cannot offset the cost to control certain regulated pollutant emissions by lowering costs or if the Company's customers elect to close coal-fired units, the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
−Removed: Clean Water Act ("CWA")
−Removed: CWA affects coal mining operations by establishing in-stream water quality standards and treatment standards for wastewater discharge, including from coal mines.
−Removed: These federal and state requirements could require more costly water treatment and could materially adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The Company believes it has obtained all permits required under the CWA and corresponding state laws and is in compliance with such permits.
−Removed: In many instances, mining operations require securing CWA authorization or a permit from the U.S.
−Removed: Army Corps of Engineers for operations in waters of the United States ("WOTUS.") The Supreme Court of the United States heard the Sackett vs.
−Removed: EPA case in October 2022, which considered whether certain wetlands constitute WOTUS.
−Removed: Prior to the Supreme Court issuing a decision, in January 2023, the EPA published a new rule that redefines WOTUS that relied on an expansive significant nexus test.
−Removed: The new definition expanded the scope of federal jurisdiction over land and water features which could cause some of the Company's operations to incur additional costs to mitigate streams and wetlands.
−Removed: The new WOTUS definition was ultimately stayed in 24 states, including Mississippi, North Dakota and Texas, and on May 25, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its Sackett vs.
−Removed: EPA ruling that defines WOTUS as “a relatively permanent body of water connected to traditional interstate navigable waters” with a “continuous surface connection with that water, making it difficult to determine where the ‘water’ ends and the ‘wetland’ begins.” The Supreme Court decision rejected the “significant nexus” test relied upon by the EPA in its new 2023 WOTUS rule.
−Removed: As a result, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers authored a revised definition of WOTUS, bypassed the rule proposal stage, and promulgated a final rule that removed references to “significant nexus”.
−Removed: The new rule does not go into effect in states where a stay had been issued for the previous rule, including North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
−Removed: In these states, the legal challenge to the rule will resume.
−Removed: In the meantime, securing CWA permits may be more challenging since the agencies in states where a stay has been issued have less guidance to rely on to determine whether certain features are considered WOTUS.
−Removed: Bellaire is treating mine water drainage from coal refuse piles associated with former underground coal mines in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
−Removed: Bellaire anticipates that it will need to continue these activities indefinitely.
−Removed: Bellaire was notified by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection during 2004 that in order to obtain renewal of a permit, Bellaire would be required to establish a mine water treatment trust.
−Removed: See Note 7 and Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 filed on March 15, 2023 for further information on Bellaire.
−Removed: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA")
−Removed: RCRA affects coal mining operations by establishing requirements for the treatment, storage and disposal of wastes, including hazardous wastes.
−Removed: Coal mine wastes, such as overburden and coal cleaning wastes, currently are exempted from hazardous waste management.
−Removed: In 2020, the EPA finalized changes to the coal combustion residual ("CCR") rule that classified all clay-lined surface impoundments that receive CCR as unlined, which triggered a pond closure date of April 2021 for impoundments that failed the aquifer location restriction.
−Removed: The EPA also established alternative deadlines to cease receipt of waste to include new site-specific alternatives due to lack of capacity with a deadline to initiate closure no later than October 15, 2023 and a new site-specific alternative due to permanent cessation of coal-fired boilers with two deadlines to complete closure:
−Removed: (a) no later than October 17, 2023 for surface impoundments 40 acres or smaller;
−Removed: and (b) October 17, 2028 for surface impoundments larger than 40 acres.
−Removed: These rules may raise the cost for CCR disposal at coal-fired power plants, making them less competitive, and/or result in early closure which could have an adverse impact on demand for coal and ultimately result in the early closure of the mines servicing these plants, including closure of the Company's mines.
−Removed: Any such closure of the Company's mines could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In compliance with the regulations, the owner of the Coal Creek Station power plant, Falkirk’s customer, submitted a Part B application to the EPA in 2020 asserting a unit complied with the CCR rules.
−Removed: In the first quarter of 2023, the EPA proposed to deny the owner’s application.
−Removed: The owner and other parties have submitted additional information and comments supporting the owner’s position.
−Removed: If the EPA ultimately denies the owner’s application, a new liner may need to be installed or new waste management processes and/or units may need to be constructed.
−Removed: Accordingly, it is possible that a denial by the EPA could require a temporary unit shut down.
−Removed: Any temporary unit shut down could result in a temporary suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station.
−Removed: To minimize any impact to operations, Coal Creek Station is moving forward with plans to dry CCR materials produced by the plant, reducing the need to utilize the lined area in question.
−Removed: Falkirk is the sole supplier of lignite coal to Coal Creek Station.
−Removed: Any suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station would eliminate the need for lignite coal during the suspension period.
−Removed: Any such suspension of operations at Coal Creek Station or any of the power plants supplied by the Company's mines could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In May 2023, the EPA published proposed regulations that would impose federal regulatory requirements for previously exempt inactive CCR surface impoundments at inactive facilities (legacy CCR surface impoundments).
−Removed: If finalized as proposed, it could increase the regulatory cost of compliance for the Company's customers thereby increasing the cost of power which could materially adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The EPA rule exempts CCRs beneficially used at mine sites and reserves any regulation thereof to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ("OSMRE").
−Removed: The OSMRE suspended all rulemaking actions on CCRs, but could re-initiate them in the future.
−Removed: The outcome of these rulemakings, and any subsequent actions by the EPA and OSMRE, could impact those Company operations that beneficially use CCRs.
−Removed: If the Company were unable to beneficially use CCRs, its revenues for handling CCRs from its customers may decrease and its costs may increase due to the purchase of alternative materials for beneficial uses.
−Removed: National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA")
−Removed: NEPA requires federal agencies to review the environmental impacts of their decisions and issue either an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement.
−Removed: There are certain actions associated with surface coal mining that may trigger these types of assessments by federal agencies.
−Removed: When a NEPA action is required, the Company provides the required information to the appropriate federal agency to enable it to complete the required study.
−Removed: Historically, this process has been lengthy and may take several years to complete.
−Removed: In January 2023, the White House Council on Environmental Quality ("CEQ") issued interim guidance that instructs federal agencies to quantify GHG emissions for each alternative and use the social cost of greenhouse gasses to calculate a monetary metric associated with the proposed actions’ climate effects.
−Removed: The NEPA and interim guidance could adversely affect the Company’s ability to secure necessary permits.
−Removed: On April 21, 2023, President Biden signed a new executive order focused on incorporating environmental justice considerations into federal decision-making.
−Removed: The executive order created a new White House Office of Environmental Justice, and directed all
−Removed: federal agencies to make environmental justice a central part of each agency’s mission by publishing an environmental justice strategic plan for the agency.
−Removed: Additionally, the order requires agencies conducting NEPA reviews to assess direct, indirect and cumulative impacts on environmental justice communities in their analyses, to consider best available science and information on disparate health impacts related to exposure to environmental hazards and provide opportunities for meaningful engagement with environmental justice communities during the environmental review process.
−Removed: It remains to be seen how federal agencies will undertake to comply with these new requirements addressing environmental justice considerations, but the development and application of the new requirements may result in permit uncertainty and delays for activities that require federal approvals.
−Removed: On June 3, 2023, President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 into law, which included certain provisions collectively known as the Builder Act.
−Removed: The Builder Act includes amendments to NEPA which codify past regulatory reforms, including narrowing what qualifies as a “major federal action,” limiting the scope of NEPA review to “reasonably foreseeable environmental effects,” narrowing consideration of cumulative effects, directing agencies to only consider technically and economically feasible reasonable alternatives and providing page limits and timelines for environmental impact statements and environmental assessments.
−Removed: It remains to be seen how the changes enacted by Congress will impact site level NEPA analysis.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL SUMMARY
−Removed: The results of operations for NACCO were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: The results of operations for NACCO were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Coal Mining $ 15,545 $ 20,653
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Total revenue $ 53,289 $ 50,141
−Removed: Operating (loss) profit:
+Added: Operating profit (loss):
Coal Mining $ (417) $ 313
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Eliminations 17 (20)
−Removed: Total operating (loss) profit
−Removed: (6,267) 9,818 (2,703) 54,445
+Added: Total operating profit
Interest expense 1,111 545
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Closed mine obligations 455 409
−Removed: Loss (gain) on equity securities
+Added: Gain on equity securities
(1,041) (628)
−Removed: Income from equity method investee — (2,156) — (2,156)
−Removed: Other contract termination settlements — — — (16,882)
Other, net (214) (1,725)
Other income, net (816) (2,554)
−Removed: (Loss) income before income tax (benefit) provision
−Removed: (5,850) 11,480 1,775 71,497
−Removed: Income tax (benefit) provision
+Added: Income before income tax provision (benefit)
+Added: Income tax provision (benefit)
1,003 (1,324)
−Removed: Net (loss) income
$ 4,570 $ 5,692
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The components of the change in revenues and operating profit are discussed below in "Segment Results."
−Removed: Third Quarter of 2023 Compared with Third Quarter of 2022, and First Nine Months of 2023 Compared with First Nine Months of 2022
+Added: First Quarter of 2024 Compared with First Quarter of 2023
Other (income) expense, net
−Removed: Interest income increased in the third quarter of 2023 and the first nine months of 2023 compared with the respective 2022 periods primarily due to a higher average invested cash balance as well as an increase in interest rates.
−Removed: Loss (gain) on equity securities represents changes in the market price of invested assets reported at fair value.
−Removed: The change in the third quarter of 2023 and the first nine months of 2023 compared with the respective 2022 periods was due to fluctuations in the market prices of the exchange-traded equity securities.
+Added: Interest expense increased in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the respective 2023 period due to higher average borrowings as well as an increase in interest rates.
+Added: Gain on equity securities represents changes in the market price of invested assets reported at fair value.
+Added: The change in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the respective 2023 period was due to fluctuations in the market prices of the exchange-traded equity securities.
See Note 5 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of equity securities.
−Removed: During the first nine months of 2022, GRE transferred ownership of an office building with an estimated fair value of $4.1 million and conveyed membership units in Midwest AgEnergy, LLC (“MAG”) with an estimated fair value of $12.8 million.
−Removed: The Company recognized a gain of $16.9 million on the "Other contract termination settlements" line within the accompanying
−Removed: Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations during the first nine months of 2022 as a result of the transactions with GRE.
−Removed: Prior to receiving the membership units from GRE, the Company held a $5.0 million investment in MAG.
−Removed: Subsequent to the receipt of the additional membership units, the Company began to account for the investment under the equity method of accounting.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2022, the Company recorded $2.2 million, which represented its share of MAG's earnings on the "Income from equity method investee" line within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
−Removed: On December 1, 2022, the Company transferred its ownership interest in MAG to HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC.
−Removed: The Company received a payment of $1.2 million in the first nine months of 2023 in connection with a post-closing purchase price adjustment, which is included on the line "Other, net" within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
−Removed: See Note 1 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of MAG.
+Added: On December 1, 2022, the Company transferred its ownership interest in Midwest AgEnergy Group, LLC (“MAG”), a North Dakota-based ethanol business to HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC (“HLCP”).
+Added: The Company received a payment of $1.2 million in the first quarter of 2023 in connection with a post-closing purchase price adjustment, which is included on the line "Other, net" within the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
The Company evaluates and updates its estimated annual effective income tax rate on a quarterly basis based on current and forecasted operating results and tax laws.
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The benefit of percentage depletion is not directly related to the amount of consolidated pre-tax income recorded in a period.
−Removed: Accordingly, as a result of the significant reduction in 2023 forecasted income before income tax compared with 2022, the proportional effect of the benefit from percentage depletion on the effective income tax rate results in a negative forecasted effective tax rate for 2023.
−Removed: Each quarter, the Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate and makes a cumulative adjustment if the estimated annual tax rate has changed.
+Added: Accordingly, in periods where income before tax is relatively small, the proportional effect of the benefit from percentage depletion on the effective tax rate may be significant.
+Added: In addition, as a result of the forecasted loss before income tax as of March 31, 2023, the effect of the benefit from percentage depletion resulted in a negative forecasted effective tax rate.
+Added: Each quarter, the Company updates its estimate of the annual effective tax rate and the cumulative impact of the change in the estimated annual tax rate is recorded, which can additionally make quarterly comparisons not meaningful.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES OF NACCO
−Removed: The following tables detail NACCO's changes in cash flow for the nine months ended September 30:
+Added: The following tables detail NACCO's changes in cash flow for the three months ended March 31:
2024 2023 Change
Operating activities:
−Removed: Net cash provided by operating activities $ 63,020 $ 54,929 $ 8,091
+Added: Net cash (used for) provided by operating activities
+Added: $ (9,758) $ 6,254 $ (16,012)
Investing activities:
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Cash flow before financing activities $ (24,393) $ (210) $ (24,183)
−Removed: The $8.1 million change in net cash provided by operating activities during the first nine months of 2023 was primarily due to a favorable change in working capital partially offset by a decrease in net income adjusted for non-cash items, primarily the $16.9 million related to the termination and release of claims agreement between Falkirk and GRE.
−Removed: The favorable change in working capital was mainly the result of a reduction in the Federal income tax receivable during the first nine months of 2023 compared with an increase in the first nine months of 2022.
−Removed: In addition, an increase in Accounts Payable during the first nine months of 2023 compared with a decrease in the first nine months of 2022 also contributed to the favorable change in working capital.
−Removed: The increase in 2023 accounts payable is primarily due to $9.9 million related to equipment acquired for the Thacker Pass lithium project.
+Added: The $16.0 million change in net cash (used for) provided by operating activities was primarily due to an unfavorable change in working capital, which was mainly the result of increases in Other current assets and Accounts receivable from affiliates during the first quarter of 2024 compared with significant decreases in the first quarter of 2023.
+Added: The change in Other current assets was primarily due to changes in accrued royalties.
+Added: The change in Accounts receivable from affiliates is primarily attributable to the amount and timing of payments from unconsolidated subsidiaries.
+Added: In addition, the Company entered into an Accounts Receivable Financing Program with a third party banking institution on March 14, 2024 for the sale of certain accounts receivables.
+Added: Accounts receivable sold under the Accounts Receivable Financing Program for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 were $6.1 million.
+Added: The net proceeds received were included in Net cash (used for) provided by operating activities in the Unaudited Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.
2024 2023 Change
Financing activities:
−Removed: Net reductions to long-term debt and revolving credit agreement $ (2,396) $ (4,454) $ 2,058
+Added: Net additions to long-term debt and revolving credit agreement
+Added: $ 7,032 $ 656 $ 6,376
Cash dividends paid (1,630) (1,557) (73)
Purchase of treasury shares (4,274) — (4,274)
−Removed: Net cash used for financing activities $ (8,046) $ (8,942) $ 896
−Removed: The change in net cash used for financing activities was primarily due to fewer debt repayments during the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022, partially offset by the purchase of treasury shares during 2023.
+Added: Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities
+Added: $ 1,128 $ (901) $ 2,029
+Added: The change in net cash provided by (used for) financing activities was primarily due to an increase in debt borrowings during the first three months of 2024 compared with the first three months of 2023, partially offset by share repurchases during the first quarter of 2024.
Financing Activities
−Removed: Financing arrangements are obtained and maintained at the NACCO Natural Resources level.
−Removed: NACCO Natural Resources is the parent company for NACoal, NAMining, Catapult and Mitigation Resources.
−Removed: NACCO Natural Resources has a secured revolving line of credit of up to $150.0 million (the “Facility”) that expires in November 2025.
−Removed: There were no borrowings outstanding under the Facility at September 30, 2023.
−Removed: At September 30, 2023, the excess availability under the Facility was $122.0 million, which reflects a reduction for outstanding letters of credit of $28.0 million.
+Added: NACCO Natural Resources Corporation (“NACCO Natural Resources”), maintains a secured revolving line of credit of up to $150.0 million (the “Facility”) that expires in November 2025.
+Added: Borrowings outstanding under the Facility were $17.0 million at
+Added: March 31, 2024.
+Added: At March 31, 2024, the excess availability under the Facility was $100.4 million, which reflects a reduction for outstanding letters of credit of $32.6 million.
NACCO has not guaranteed any borrowings of NACCO Natural Resources.
−Removed: The borrowing agreements at NACCO Natural Resources allow for the payment to NACCO of dividends and advances under certain circumstances.
+Added: The Facility allows for the payment to NACCO of dividends and advances under certain circumstances.
Dividends (to the extent permitted by the Facility) and management fees are the primary sources of cash for NACCO and enable the Company to pay dividends to stockholders and repurchase shares.
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Borrowings bear interest at a floating rate plus a margin based on the level of debt to EBITDA ratio achieved.
−Removed: The applicable margins, effective September 30, 2023, for base rate and LIBOR loans were 1.23% and 2.23%, respectively.
+Added: The applicable margins, effective March 31, 2024, for base rate and SOFR loans were 1.23% and 2.23%, respectively.
The Facility has a commitment fee which is based upon achieving various levels of debt to EBITDA ratios.
−Removed: The commitment fee was 0.34% on the unused commitment at September 30, 2023.
+Added: The commitment fee was 0.34% on the unused commitment at March 31, 2024.
The Facility contains restrictive covenants, which require, among other things, NACCO Natural Resources to maintain a maximum net debt to EBITDA ratio of 2.75 to 1.00 and an interest coverage ratio of not less than 4.00 to 1.00.
The Facility provides the ability to make loans, dividends and advances to NACCO, with some restrictions based on maintaining a maximum debt to EBITDA ratio of 1.50 to 1.00, or if greater than 1.50 to 1.00, a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of 1.10 to 1.00, in conjunction with maintaining unused availability thresholds of borrowing capacity, as defined in the Facility, of $15.0 million.
−Removed: At September 30, 2023, NACCO Natural Resources was in compliance with all financial covenants in the Facility.
+Added: At March 31, 2024, NACCO Natural Resources was in compliance with all financial covenants in the Facility.
The obligations under the Facility are guaranteed by certain of NACCO Natural Resource's direct and indirect, existing and future domestic subsidiaries, and is secured by certain assets of NACCO Natural Resources and the guarantors, subject to customary exceptions and limitations.
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Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and mineral interests
−Removed: Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and mineral interests were $37.9 million during the first nine months of 2023, primarily for the acquisition of equipment to support the Thacker Pass lithium project.
−Removed: Planned expenditures for the remainder of 2023 are expected to be approximately $5 million in the Coal Mining segment, $4 million in the NAMining segment, $37 million in the Minerals Management segment and less than $1 million in Unallocated Items.
−Removed: In the Minerals Management segment, planned expenditures for the remainder of 2023 are primarily related to the acquisition of mineral and royalty interests in the oil-rich Permian basin.
−Removed: Planned expenditures for 2024 are expected to be approximately $10 million in the Coal Mining segment, $8 million in the NAMining segment, $20 million in the Minerals Management segment and $1 million in Unallocated Items.
+Added: Expenditures for property, plant and equipment and mineral interests were $14.5 million during the first three months of 2024, primarily for the acquisition of land at Mitigation Resources and equipment at NAMining.
+Added: Planned expenditures for the remainder of 2024 are expected to be approximately $11 million in the Coal Mining segment, $27 million in the NAMining segment, $20 million in the Minerals Management segment and $3 million in Unallocated Items.
Expenditures are expected to be funded from internally generated funds and/or bank borrowings.
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Debt to total capitalization 12% 9% 3%
−Removed: The decrease in other net tangible assets at September 30, 2023 compared with December 31, 2022 was mainly the result of an increase in Accounts payable and a reduction in the Federal income tax receivable.
−Removed: Accounts payable at September 30, 2023 includes $9.9 million related to equipment acquired for the Thacker Pass lithium project.
−Removed: A decrease in Trade accounts receivable due to lower sales at the Coal Mining and Minerals Management segments during the third quarter of 2023 compared with the fourth quarter of 2022 also contributed to the decrease in other net tangible assets.
−Removed: These items were partially offset by an increase in Property, plant and equipment during the first nine months of 2023.
+Added: The increase in other net tangible assets at March 31, 2024 compared with December 31, 2023 was mainly the result of increases in Property, plant and equipment and Prepaid insurance during the first quarter of 2024.
Contractual Obligations, Contingent Liabilities and Commitments
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FINANCIAL REVIEW
−Removed: Tons of coal delivered by the Coal Mining segment were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: Tons of coal delivered by the Coal Mining segment were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Unconsolidated operations 5,480 6,192
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Total tons delivered 5,935 6,903
−Removed: The results of operations for the Coal Mining segment were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: The results of operations for the Coal Mining segment were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Revenues $ 15,545 $ 20,653
Cost of sales 20,943 25,878
−Removed: Gross (loss) profit (8,154) 1,666 (20,305) 5,742
+Added: Gross loss (5,398) (5,225)
Earnings of unconsolidated operations (a)
12,007 12,466
−Removed: Contract termination settlement — — — 14,000
Selling, general and administrative expenses 6,910 6,437
Amortization of intangible assets 126 727
−Removed: (Gain) loss on sale of assets — 2 (168) 1
+Added: Gain on sale of assets (10) (236)
Operating (loss) profit $ (417) $ 313
(a) See Note 6 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the Company's unconsolidated subsidiaries, including summarized financial information.
−Removed: Third Quarter of 2023 Compared with Third Quarter of 2022
−Removed: Revenues decreased 17.4% in the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022 primarily due to a reduction in customer requirements at MLMC.
−Removed: The following table identifies the components of change in operating (loss) profit for the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022:
+Added: Revenues decreased 24.7% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to a reduction in customer requirements at MLMC as a result of an ongoing issue that impacts one of two boilers at the Red Hills Power Plant.
+Added: Repairs to the boiler are expected to be completed during the second half of 2024.
+Added: The following table identifies the components of change in Operating (loss) profit for the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023:
Operating (Loss) Profit
Increase (decrease) from:
−Removed: Gross profit, excluding inventory impairment charge (7,399)
−Removed: Inventory impairment charge (2,421)
−Removed: Earnings of unconsolidated operations (2,041)
Selling, general and administrative expenses (473)
−Removed: Amortization of intangibles 225
−Removed: Loss on sale of assets 2
−Removed: 2023 $ (4,697)
−Removed: Operating (loss) profit decreased $10.8 million in the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022 primarily due to decreases in gross profit and in the earnings of unconsolidated operations, partially offset by lower selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: The decrease in gross profit was primarily the result of an increase in the cost per ton delivered at MLMC.
−Removed: The increase in cost per ton delivered at MLMC is due to costs associated with establishing operations in a new mine area and a reduction in the number of tons severed.
−Removed: The reduction in severed tons was due to adverse mining conditions caused by the amount of rain during the third quarter of 2023, as well as operational inefficiencies related to final mining activities at the existing mine area.
−Removed: Fewer tons severed caused a decrease in tons held in inventory since more tons were delivered than produced during the third quarter of 2023.
−Removed: This resulted in an increase in the cost per ton and a $2.4 million inventory impairment charge to write down coal inventory to its net realizable value.
−Removed: The decrease in the earnings of unconsolidated operations was primarily due to a reduction in customer requirements at Coteau.
−Removed: The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to lower employee-related costs.
−Removed: First Nine Months of 2023 Compared with First Nine Months of 2022
−Removed: Revenues decreased 6.4% in the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022 primarily due to a reduction in customer requirements at MLMC.
−Removed: The following table identifies the components of change in operating (loss) profit for the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022:
−Removed: Operating (Loss) Profit
−Removed: 2022 $ 34,616
−Removed: Increase (decrease) from:
−Removed: Gross profit, excluding inventory impairment charges (19,406)
−Removed: Contract termination settlement in 2022 (14,000)
−Removed: Inventory impairment charges (6,641)
Earnings of unconsolidated operations (459)
−Removed: Selling, general and administrative expenses 2,126
−Removed: Amortization of intangibles 476
Gain on sale of assets (226)
−Removed: 2023 $ (9,059)
−Removed: Operating (loss) profit decreased $43.7 million in the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022 due to a decrease in gross profit, the non-recurrence of $14.0 million recognized in the first nine months of 2022 related to the contract termination settlement with GRE and a decline in the earnings of unconsolidated operations.
−Removed: These decreases were partially offset by lower selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: The decrease in gross profit was primarily due to an increase in the cost per ton delivered at MLMC.
−Removed: The increase in cost per ton delivered at MLMC is due to costs associated with establishing operations in a new mine area and a reduction in the number of tons severed.
−Removed: The reduction in severed tons was due to adverse mining conditions caused by the amount of rain during the first nine months of 2023, as well as operational inefficiencies related to final mining activities at the existing mine area.
−Removed: Fewer tons severed caused a decrease in tons held in inventory since more tons were delivered than produced during the first nine months of 2023.
−Removed: This resulted in an increase in the cost per ton and $6.6 million of inventory impairment charges to write down coal inventory to its net realizable value.
−Removed: The decrease in the earnings of unconsolidated operations was primarily due to a reduction in the per ton management fee at Falkirk, effective May 2022 through May 2024, to support the transition of the Coal Creek Station Power Plant to Rainbow Energy.
−Removed: A reduction in customer requirements at Coteau and Falkirk also contributed to the decrease in earnings.
−Removed: These decreases were partly offset by improved results at Coyote Creek.
−Removed: The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to lower employee-related costs.
+Added: Gross loss (173)
+Added: Amortization of intangibles 601
+Added: Operating (loss) profit decreased $0.7 million in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses and a decrease in the earnings of unconsolidated operations.
+Added: The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to higher employee-related costs.
+Added: The decrease in the earnings of unconsolidated operations was primarily due to a reduction in customer requirements at Coteau.
+Added: The reduction in revenues at MLMC was offset by a reduction in cost of goods sold, resulting in a comparable gross loss in both the first quarter of 2024 and 2023.
+Added: Gross loss in the first quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2023 included a $2.5 million and $2.4 million inventory impairment charge, respectively, to write down MLMC's coal inventory to its net realizable value.
NORTH AMERICAN MINING ("NAMining") SEGMENT
FINANCIAL REVIEW
−Removed: Tons delivered by the NAMining segment were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: Tons delivered by the NAMining segment were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Total tons delivered 15,173 14,829
−Removed: The results of operations for the NAMining segment were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: The results of operations for the NAMining segment were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Total revenues $ 24,483 $ 20,633
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Earnings of unconsolidated operations (a)
−Removed: 1,495 1,288 3,975 3,716
Selling, general and administrative expenses 1,823 1,920
−Removed: Loss on sale of assets — — — 75
−Removed: Operating profit (loss) $ 866 $ (210) $ 3,910 $ 2,318
+Added: Gain on sale of assets (1) —
+Added: Operating profit $ 2,355 $ 830
(a) See Note 6 to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of the Company's unconsolidated subsidiaries, including summarized financial information.
−Removed: Third Quarter of 2023 Compared with Third Quarter of 2022
−Removed: Total revenues decreased 5.4% in the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022 primarily due to a decrease in reimbursable costs, which have an offsetting amount in cost of sales and have no impact on operating profit, and a decrease in mine reclamation revenue at Caddo Creek.
−Removed: These decreases were partially offset by an increase in customer requirements and tons delivered at the consolidated quarries.
−Removed: The following table identifies the components of change in operating profit (loss) for the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022:
−Removed: Operating Profit (Loss)
−Removed: Increase (decrease) from:
−Removed: Voluntary retirement program charge 769
−Removed: Selling, general and administrative expenses 307
−Removed: Earnings of unconsolidated operations 207
−Removed: Gross profit (207)
−Removed: Operating profit increased $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2023 compared with the third quarter of 2022 primarily due to the absence of a voluntary retirement program charge and a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2022, the Company implemented a voluntary retirement program for employees who met certain age
−Removed: and service requirements to reduce overall headcount.
−Removed: As a result of this program, the third quarter 2022 operating loss includes
−Removed: a charge of $0.8 million related to one-time termination benefits.
−Removed: The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was mainly due to lower employee-related costs.
−Removed: First Nine Months of 2023 Compared with First Nine Months of 2022
−Removed: Total revenues decreased 4.6% in the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022 primarily due to a reduction in revenue from reclamation activities at Caddo Creek.
−Removed: The Marshall Mine, where Caddo Creek had been performing mine reclamation work, was acquired by the Company in the first quarter of 2023.
−Removed: A decrease in reimbursable costs, which have an offsetting amount in cost of sales and have no impact on operating profit, also contributed to the decrease in total revenues.
−Removed: These decreases were partially offset by an increase in customer requirements and tons delivered at the consolidated quarries.
−Removed: The following table identifies the components of change in operating profit for the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022:
+Added: Total revenues increased 18.7% in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to an improvement at the consolidated quarries.
+Added: An increase in reimbursable costs at Sawtooth, which have an offsetting amount in cost of sales and have no impact on operating profit, also contributed to the improvement in total revenues.
+Added: The following table identifies the components of change in Operating profit for the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023:
Operating Profit
Increase (decrease) from:
−Removed: Voluntary retirement program charge 769
+Added: Gross profit 1,420
Selling, general and administrative expenses 97
Earnings of unconsolidated operations 7
−Removed: Loss on sale of assets 75
−Removed: Gross profit 32
−Removed: Operating profit increased $1.6 million in the first nine months of 2023 compared with the first nine months of 2022 primarily due to the absence of a voluntary retirement program charge and a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2022, the Company implemented a voluntary retirement program for employees who met certain age
−Removed: and service requirements to reduce overall headcount.
−Removed: As a result of this program, the first nine months of 2022 operating profit includes a charge of $0.8 million related to one-time termination benefits.
−Removed: The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was mainly due to lower employee-related costs.
−Removed: In addition, the change in gross profit was due to higher earnings at the consolidated quarries as well as an increase in dragline part sales, largely offset by the absence of earnings associated with Caddo Creek reclamation activities.
+Added: Gain on sale of assets 1
+Added: Operating profit increased $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the first quarter of 2023 primarily due to an increase in gross profit.
+Added: This improvement was mainly the result of favorable pricing and delivery mix and improved margins at the limestone quarries resulting from mutually beneficial contract amendments.
MINERALS MANAGEMENT SEGMENT
FINANCIAL REVIEW
−Removed: The results of operations for the Minerals Management segment were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
+Added: As an owner of royalty and mineral interests, the Company’s access to information concerning activity and operations of its royalty and mineral interests is limited.
+Added: The Company does not have information that would be available to a company with oil and natural gas operations because detailed information is not generally available to owners of royalty and mineral interests.
+Added: Consequently, the exact number of wells producing from or drilling on the Company’s mineral interests at a given point in time is not determinable.
+Added: The following table sets forth the Company’s estimate of the number of gross and net productive wells:
+Added: March 31, 2024 March 31, 2023
+Added: Gross Net Gross Net
+Added: Oil 1,740 8.8 1,048 3.3
+Added: Natural Gas 261 12.9 251 10.1
+Added: Total 2,001 21.7 1,299 13.4
+Added: Gross wells are the total wells in which an interest is owned.
+Added: Net wells are calculated based on the Company's net royalty interest, factoring in both ownership percentage of gross wells and royalty rate.
+Added: Oil and natural gas prices have been historically volatile and may continue to be volatile in the future.
+Added: The table below demonstrates such volatility with the average price as reported by the United States Energy Information Administration for the three months ended March 31:
+Added: West Texas Intermediate Average Crude Oil Price $ 77.56 $ 76.08
+Added: Henry Hub Average Natural Gas Price $ 2.13 $ 2.65
+Added: The following table sets forth the estimated oil and natural gas production data related to the Company’s mineral and royalty interests as well as certain price and cost information for the three months ended March 31:
+Added: Production data:
+Added: Oil (bbl) (1)
38,194 24,024
+Added: NGL (bbl) (1)
+Added: 12,542 14,375
+Added: Residue gas (Mcf) (2)
+Added: 2,143,948 1,874,900
+Added: Total BOE (3)
+Added: 408,060 350,882
+Added: Average realized prices:
+Added: Oil (bbl) (1)
+Added: $ 69.07 $ 69.82
+Added: NGL (bbl) (1)
+Added: $ 23.83 $ 23.81
+Added: Residue gas (Mcf) (2)
+Added: $ 2.84 $ 3.12
+Added: Average unit cost
+Added: $ 2.31 $ 3.80
+Added: One stock tank barrel, or 42 U.S.
+Added: gallons liquid volume.
+Added: One thousand cubic feet of natural gas at the contractual pressure and temperature bases.
+Added: Barrel of Oil Equivalent, a conversion factor of 6 MCF of gas was used for 1 equivalent bbl of oil.
+Added: (4) As an owner of mineral and royalty interests, the Company’s access to information concerning activity and operations of its royalty and mineral interests is limited.
+Added: As a result, the Company estimated February and March 2024 data with volumes projected from prior well production and pricing based on public pricing data adjusted for expense information.
+Added: The results of operations for the Minerals Management segment were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Revenues $ 10,401 $ 8,285
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Gross profit 9,037 7,233
+Added: Loss from unconsolidated operations (65) —
Selling, general and administrative expenses 1,042 1,189
−Removed: Loss (gain) on sale of assets 87 — 87 (2,527)
−Removed: Asset impairment charges — 3,939 — 3,939
Operating profit $ 7,930 $ 6,044
−Removed: During the third quarter of 2023 and the first nine months of 2023, the oil and natural gas industry experienced a decline in commodity prices compared with the respective 2022 periods.
−Removed: Oil and natural gas prices have been historically volatile and may continue to be volatile in the future.
−Removed: The table below demonstrates such volatility with the average price as reported by the United States Energy Information Administration for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
−Removed: West Texas Intermediate Average Crude Oil Price $ 82.30 $ 93.18 $ 77.38 $ 98.79
−Removed: Henry Hub Average Natural Gas Price $ 2.59 $ 7.99 $ 2.47 $ 6.71
−Removed: Revenues and operating profit decreased significantly in the third quarter of 2023 and the first nine months of 2023 compared with the respective 2022 periods, primarily due to substantially lower natural gas and oil prices, as well as lower settlement
−Removed: The first nine months of 2023 and the first nine months of 2022 included settlement income of $1.4 million and $2.1 million, respectively.
−Removed: Settlement income relates to the Company’s ownership interest in certain mineral rights.
−Removed: In addition, operating profit in the first nine months of 2023 decreased due to a $2.4 million gain on the sale of land related to legacy operations recognized during the second quarter of 2022.
−Removed: An increase in selling, general and administrative expenses, mainly due to higher employee-related costs, also contributed to the decrease in operating profit.
−Removed: The Company regularly performs reviews of potential future development projects and identified certain legacy coal assets
−Removed: where future development is unlikely.
−Removed: The long-lived assets, which included land, prepaid royalties and capitalized leasehold
−Removed: costs, were written off in the third quarter of 2022 and resulted in non-cash asset impairment charges of $3.9 million.
+Added: Revenues and operating profit increased in the first quarter of 2024 compared with the respective 2023 period, primarily due to an increase in production volumes.
UNALLOCATED ITEMS AND ELIMINATIONS
FINANCIAL REVIEW
−Removed: Unallocated Items and Eliminations were as follows for the three and nine months ended September 30:
−Removed: THREE MONTHS NINE MONTHS
−Removed: 2023 2022 2023 2022
+Added: Unallocated Items and Eliminations were as follows for the three months ended March 31:
Operating loss $ (5,111) $ (5,373)
−Removed: The operating loss in the third quarter of 2023 and the first nine months of 2023 decreased compared with the respective 2022 periods due to lower employee-related costs.
−Removed: The first nine months of 2023 also included higher earnings at Mitigation Resources.
+Added: The operating loss in the first quarter of 2024 decreased compared with the respective 2023 period due to higher earnings at Mitigation Resources.
NACCO Industries, Inc.
Coal Mining Outlook
−Removed: The Company expects fourth-quarter 2023 Coal Mining operating results and Segment Adjusted EBITDA to improve significantly compared with the 2023 third quarter but decline substantially from the 2022 fourth quarter.
−Removed: The improvement in fourth-quarter 2023 over third-quarter 2023 results is primarily due to anticipated lower production costs from completion of the move to a new mine area at MLMC partially offset by anticipated higher Coal Mining operating expenses due to higher professional fees and outside services.
−Removed: While production costs at MLMC are anticipated to decline significantly from recent levels, production costs are expected to remain above historical levels through 2024 when a pit extension in the new mine area is complete.
−Removed: All production costs are capitalized into inventory at this mine.
−Removed: Beginning in the 2023 fourth quarter, MLMC expects to increase the number of tons severed, which is anticipated to lead to an increase in coal inventory levels.
−Removed: Higher inventory levels will allow costs to be spread over more tons, which is expected to result in a lower cost per ton sold and improved profitability beginning with the fourth quarter and going forward.
−Removed: The fourth-quarter 2023 results at MLMC are expected to be below fourth-quarter 2022 despite the improvement in results over the previous 2023 quarters.
−Removed: An anticipated increase in operating expenses is also expected to contribute to the lower fourth-quarter 2023 results.
−Removed: MLMC does not anticipate opening additional mine areas through the remaining contract term.
−Removed: While increased depreciation from capital expenditures related to the new mine area will affect future results, the Company anticipates MLMC should contribute favorably to Segment Adjusted EBITDA in future years.
−Removed: Capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $5 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, $10 million for the 2023 full year, and $10 million in 2024.
−Removed: Coal Mining Outlook - 2024
−Removed: In 2024, the Company expects coal deliveries to increase moderately from 2023 levels.
−Removed: Higher Coteau and Falkirk deliveries are expected to be partly offset by the unfavorable effect of the Pirkey Plant retirement and resulting March 31, 2023 cessation of coal deliveries from the Company's Sabine Mine.
−Removed: Strong operating profit and significantly higher Segment Adjusted EBITDA are expected in 2024 compared with 2023.
−Removed: increases are primarily the result of significant improvements in results at MLMC due to the anticipated reduction in cost per ton sold and an increase in earnings of unconsolidated operations.
−Removed: Improvements are expected to be higher in the second half of 2024 as comparisons are made to much lower second-half 2023 results.
−Removed: The anticipated higher earnings at the unconsolidated coal mining operations are expected to be driven primarily by increased customer requirements at Coteau and Falkirk, as well as a higher per ton management fee at Falkirk beginning in June 2024 when temporary price concessions end.
−Removed: The Company's contract structure at each of its coal mining operations eliminates exposure to spot coal market price fluctuations.
−Removed: However, fluctuations in natural gas prices, weather and the availability of renewable power generation, particularly wind, can contribute to changes in power plant dispatch and customer demand for coal.
−Removed: Changes to customer power plant dispatch would affect the Company’s outlook for the remainder of 2023 and 2024, as well as over the longer term.
+Added: In 2024, the Company expects overall coal deliveries to increase modestly from 2023 levels primarily due to anticipated higher deliveries at Coteau and Falkirk.
+Added: These improvements are expected to be partly offset by reduced deliveries at MLMC, due to an ongoing boiler issue, and the cessation of coal deliveries at the Company's Sabine Mine in April 2023.
+Added: Strong operating profit compared with a significant 2023 operating loss, which included a $60.8 million impairment charge, and substantially higher Segment Adjusted EBITDA are expected in 2024.
+Added: These anticipated increases are primarily due to an expected improvement in results at MLMC and higher earnings at Falkirk and Coteau in the second half of 2024.
+Added: MLMC expects to incur a loss in 2024, albeit significantly less than in 2023, mainly as a result of fewer tons delivered.
+Added: While total production costs at MLMC are anticipated to decrease substantially from 2023 levels, they are expected to remain above historical levels throughout 2024 until deliveries return to normal and a pit extension is completed later this year.
+Added: In addition, the effect of the impairment charge taken in 2023 will result in lower depreciation and amortization expense and contribute to the lower production costs.
+Added: An anticipated increase in 2024 earnings at the unconsolidated coal mining operations is driven primarily by an expectation for increased deliveries at Coteau and Falkirk, as well as a higher per ton management fee at Falkirk beginning in June 2024 when temporary price concessions end.
+Added: 2024 capital expenditures are expected to total approximately $13 million.
NAMining Outlook
−Removed: NAMining expects fourth-quarter 2023 tons delivered to decrease modestly from 2022, while full-year 2023 tons delivered are expected to increase year-over-year as a result of the increased deliveries in the first nine months of 2023.
−Removed: Operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA are anticipated to increase significantly in both the 2023 fourth quarter and full year over the respective prior year periods.
−Removed: These increases are primarily due to anticipated earnings improvement under existing contracts, including Sawtooth, partially offset by the completion of services at Caddo Creek.
−Removed: In 2024, NAMining expects full-year operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA to increase significantly over 2023 due to improved earnings under certain existing contracts, including Sawtooth, and an anticipated reduction in operating expenses.
−Removed: Any new contracts should be accretive to NAMining's future results.
−Removed: Sawtooth has an exclusive agreement to provide comprehensive mining services for the Thacker Pass lithium project in northern Nevada, owned by Lithium Nevada Corp., a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp.
−Removed: Lithium Americas controls the lithium reserves at Thacker Pass.
+Added: In 2023, NAMining executed a 15-year contract to mine phosphate at a quarry in central Florida.
+Added: Production is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2024 once commissioning of a dragline is complete.
+Added: The business also amended and extended existing limestone contracts in late 2023 that contain mutually advantageous contract terms and expanded the scope of work with another customer.
+Added: As a result of these new and modified contracts, as well as improvements at existing operations, NAMining expects substantial quarterly growth in operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA in each remaining 2024 quarter, leading to significantly improved full-year results over 2023.
+Added: Sawtooth has exclusive responsibility for mining and mine closure services at Thacker Pass, including mine design,
+Added: construction, operation and maintenance.
+Added: Thacker Pass is owned by Lithium Americas Corp.
+Added: Thacker Pass will supply all of Lithium Americas' lithium-bearing ore requirements.
In March 2023, Lithium Americas commenced construction at Thacker Pass.
−Removed: With construction beginning, Sawtooth started acquiring mining equipment in the 2023 second quarter.
−Removed: Sawtooth has acquired $23.1 million of equipment to-date.
−Removed: While Lithium Americas will reimburse Sawtooth for these capital expenditures over a five-year period, Sawtooth will recognize the associated revenue over the estimated useful life of the asset.
−Removed: In addition, during the construction period, Sawtooth will be reimbursed for all costs of construction and will recognize a contractually agreed construction fee.
−Removed: The Company expects to continue to recognize moderate income prior to the expected commencement of Phase 1 lithium production in the second half of 2026.
−Removed: NAMining expects full-year 2023 capital expenditures to be approximately $34 million, with approximately $4 million expended in the fourth quarter.
−Removed: In 2024, capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $8 million, primarily for the acquisition of dragline parts and other equipment.
+Added: With construction underway, Sawtooth acquired mining equipment totaling $23.3 million in 2023.
+Added: These capital expenditures will be reimbursed by Lithium Americas over a five-year period, and Sawtooth will recognize the associated revenue over the estimated useful life of the asset.
+Added: Sawtooth will be reimbursed for all costs of mining and mine closure and will recognize a contractually agreed upon production fee.
+Added: The Company expects to continue to recognize moderate income prior to the commencement of Phase 1 lithium production, estimated to begin in 2027/2028.
+Added: In 2024, capital expenditures are expected to be approximately $33 million.
+Added: These expenditures are primarily for the acquisition of draglines and dragline parts, as well as other equipment to support existing contracts and the new and modified contracts previously discussed.
Minerals Management Outlook
−Removed: The Minerals Management segment derives income from royalty-based leases under which lessees make payments to the Company based on their sale of natural gas, oil, natural gas liquids and coal, extracted primarily by third parties.
−Removed: Changing prices of natural gas and oil could have a significant impact on Minerals Management’s operating profit.
−Removed: In the 2023 fourth quarter and full year, operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA are expected to continue to decrease significantly compared with the respective prior year periods.
−Removed: These decreases are primarily driven by current market expectations for natural gas and oil prices.
−Removed: In 2024, operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA are expected to increase moderately compared with 2023 primarily driven by current market expectations for natural gas and oil prices and limited forecasted development of additional new wells by third-party lessees.
−Removed: Lower operating expenses are also expected to contribute to the profit growth.
−Removed: The Company's forecast is based on current market assumptions for natural gas and oil market prices, as well as currently owned reserves.
−Removed: Commodity prices are inherently volatile.
−Removed: Economic uncertainty continues to drive commodity price volatility and any change in natural gas and oil prices from current expectations will result in adjustments to the Company's outlook.
−Removed: The Company is closely monitoring the Israel/Gaza conflict and its potential impact on OPEC countries and international oil and gas production and demand.
−Removed: The actions of OPEC, inventory levels of natural gas and oil and the uncertainty associated with demand, as well as other factors, have the potential to impact future oil and gas prices.
−Removed: Current merger and acquisition activity
−Removed: within the oil and gas industry is also a focus as the Company works to understand its potential impact on development plans by third-party lessees.
+Added: The Minerals Management segment derives income primarily from royalty-based leases under which lessees make payments to the Company based on their sale of natural gas, oil, natural gas liquids and coal, extracted primarily by third parties.
As an owner of royalty and mineral interests, the Company’s access to information concerning activity and operations with respect to its interests is limited.
−Removed: The Company's expectations are based on the best information currently available and could vary positively or negatively as a result of adjustments made by operators, additional leasing and development and/or changes to commodity prices.
+Added: The Company's expectations are based on the best information currently available.
+Added: Changing prices of natural gas and oil could have a significant impact on Minerals Management’s operating profit.
+Added: In December 2023, Minerals Management completed a significant acquisition of mineral interests within the Midland Basin, the eastern sub-basin of the oil-rich Permian Basin, which included 43.4 thousand gross acres and 2.5 thousand net royalty acres.
+Added: This acquisition is expected to continue to be accretive to 2024 earnings and provide opportunities for longer-term growth.
+Added: In 2024, operating profit and Segment Adjusted EBITDA are expected to decrease moderately compared with the prior year, excluding the 2023 impairment charge of $5.1 million.
+Added: Lower operating expenses are expected to partially offset the anticipated profit decline.
+Added: The forecasted reduction in profitability is primarily driven by current market expectations for natural gas and oil market prices, as well as development and production assumptions on currently owned reserves.
Development of additional wells on existing interests in excess of current expectations, or acquisitions of additional interests, could be accretive to future results.
−Removed: In 2023, Minerals Management expects capital expenditures of approximately $39 million, which includes the anticipated acquisition of approximately $37 million of mineral and royalty interests expected to close during the fourth quarter that will provide additional diversification into the oil-rich Permian basin.
−Removed: The anticipated fourth quarter acquisition exceeds the previously announced capital expenditure projection as management believes it offers an attractive investment profile and aligns with the Company's strategy to establish a diversified portfolio of mineral and royalty interests.
In 2024, Minerals Management is targeting additional investments of up to $20 million.
Future investments are expected to be accretive, but each investment's contribution to near-term earnings is dependent on the details of that investment, including the size and type of interests acquired and the stage and timing of mineral development.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources
−Removed: Mitigation Resources continues to build on the substantial foundation it established over the past several years.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources currently has nine mitigation banks and four permittee-responsible mitigation projects located in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas.
+Added: Mitigation Resources Outlook
+Added: Mitigation Resources continues to build on the substantial foundation it has established over the past several years.
+Added: Mitigation Resources currently has ten mitigation banks and four permittee-responsible mitigation projects located in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania.
In addition, Mitigation Resources is providing ecological restoration services for abandoned surface mines, as well as pursuing additional environmental restoration projects.
It was named a designated provider of abandoned mine land restoration by the State of Texas.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources plans to continue to expand its business during the remainder of 2023 and in 2024, and expects to achieve near break-even earnings in 2024 and sustainable profitability in future years.
+Added: Mitigation Resources anticipates expanding its business in 2024, with a focus on generating a modest operating profit by 2025 and achieving sustainable profitability in future years.
Consolidated Outlook
−Removed: Overall, the Company expects that fourth-quarter 2023 improvements will produce operating profit and net income compared with consolidated third-quarter losses.
−Removed: However, fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 consolidated operating results and Adjusted EBITDA are expected to be down significantly from the respective prior-year periods due to substantial decreases at the Coal Mining and Minerals Management segments.
−Removed: These reductions are expected to be partially offset by favorable changes in income taxes leading to modest net income for the 2023 full year.
−Removed: In 2024, the Company expects a significant increase in consolidated net income and EBITDA over 2023.
−Removed: These improvements are primarily due to increased profitability at the Coal Mining segment from improved results at MLMC, Falkirk and Coteau.
−Removed: Growth at NAMining and Mitigation Resources is also expected to contribute to the higher 2024 net income.
−Removed: The Company expects an effective income tax rate between 10% and 13% in 2024.
−Removed: Additional contracts for NAMining or Mitigation Resources or the acquisition of additional mineral interests at Minerals Management, including the $37 million investment expected to close in the 2023 fourth quarter, could be accretive to the current forecast.
−Removed: Consolidated capital expenditures are expected to total approximately $84 million in 2023, which includes approximately $39 million at Minerals Management and $24 million related to the Thacker Pass lithium project.
−Removed: As a result of the forecasted capital expenditures and anticipated substantial decrease in net income, cash flow before financing activities in 2023 is expected to be a moderate use of cash.
−Removed: In 2024, the Company expects capital expenditures of approximately $39 million, including up to $20 million of investments at Minerals Management.
−Removed: Cash flow before financing activities in 2024 is expected to be positive but not to the level generated in 2022.
+Added: Overall, the Company expects to generate net income in 2024 compared with the substantial 2023 consolidated net loss, which included a $65.9 million impairment charge.
+Added: Adjusted EBITDA is also expected to increase significantly over 2023.
+Added: These improvements are primarily due to anticipated increased profitability at the Coal Mining segment from improved results at MLMC, Falkirk and Coteau.
+Added: The effect of NAMining's growth and profit improvement initiatives are also expected to contribute to improved 2024 results.
+Added: Additional contracts for NAMining or Mitigation Resources, or the acquisition of additional mineral interests at Minerals Management could be accretive to the current forecast.
+Added: The Company is taking steps to terminate its defined benefit pension plan in 2024.
+Added: In connection with this action, NACCO is anticipating a non-cash settlement charge in the second half of the year, which is expected to partly offset the improved 2024 operating results.
+Added: Consolidated capital expenditures are expected to total approximately $76 million in 2024.
+Added: In 2024, cash flow before financing activities is expected to be a moderate use of cash.
Long-term Growth and Diversification
−Removed: Management continues to view the long-term business outlook for NACCO positively.
+Added: Management is focused on transforming NACCO into a broad-based natural resources company and is optimistic about the Company's long-term business outlook.
+Added: NACCO's businesses provide critical inputs for electricity generation, construction and development, and the production of industrial minerals and chemicals.
+Added: Increasing demand for electricity, on-shoring and current federal policies are creating favorable macroeconomic trends within these industries.
+Added: The Company believes its businesses have competitive advantages that provide value to customers and create long-term value for stockholders.
The Company is pursuing growth and diversification by strategically leveraging its core mining and natural resources management skills to build a strong portfolio of affiliated businesses.
−Removed: Management continues to be optimistic about the long-term outlook.
−Removed: In the Minerals Management segment, as well as in the Company's Mitigation Resources business, opportunities for growth remain strong.
−Removed: Acquisitions of additional mineral interests, an improvement in the outlook for the Company's largest Coal Mining segment customers, and securing contracts for Mitigation Resources and new NAMining projects could be accretive to the Company's outlook.
+Added: Opportunities for growth remain strong.
+Added: Acquisitions of additional mineral interests and improvements in the outlook for Coal Mining segment customers, as well as new contracts at Mitigation Resources and NAMining should be accretive to the Company's outlook.
The Minerals Management segment continues to pursue acquisitions of mineral and royalty interests in the United States.
Catapult, the Company’s business unit focused on managing and expanding the Company’s portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests, has developed a strong network to source and secure new acquisitions.
−Removed: The goal is to construct a high-quality
−Removed: diversified portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the United States that delivers near-term cash flow yields and long-term projected growth.
−Removed: The Company believes this business will provide unlevered after-tax returns on invested capital in the mid-teens as this business model matures.
−Removed: This business model can deliver higher average operating margins over the life of a reserve than traditional oil and gas companies that bear the cost of exploration, production and/or development as these costs are borne entirely by third-party exploration and development companies that lease the minerals.
−Removed: The Company remains committed to expanding the NAMining business while working to improve profitability.
−Removed: NAMining intends to be a substantial contributor to operating profit over time, specifically in its Sawtooth subsidiary when production commences at Thacker Pass, which is projected to occur in 2026.
−Removed: Once production commences, Sawtooth will receive a management fee per metric ton of lithium delivered.
−Removed: At maturity, this contract is expected to deliver fee income similar to a mid-sized management fee coal mine.
−Removed: The pace of achieving substantially improved results at NAMining will depend on the execution and successful implementation of profit improvement initiatives in the aggregates operations, and the mix and scale of new projects.
−Removed: A number of initiatives are already delivering improved financial results.
+Added: The goal is to construct a high-quality diversified portfolio of oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the United States that delivers near-term cash flow yields and long-term projected growth.
+Added: The Company believes this business will provide unlevered after-tax returns on invested capital in the mid-teens as it matures.
+Added: This business model has the potential to deliver higher average operating margins over the life of a reserve than traditional oil and gas companies that bear the cost of exploration, production and/or development as these costs are borne entirely by third-party exploration and development companies that lease the minerals.
+Added: NAMining is focused on continuing to evaluate new business opportunities and drive profitable growth in line with refined strategic objectives.
+Added: After pausing on business development in early 2023, NAMining has better identified how to enhance operational excellence, where to focus and scale, and how to drive profitable growth.
+Added: New contracts and contract extensions are central to the business' organic growth strategy, and the Company expects NAMining to be a substantial contributor to operating profit over time.
Mitigation Resources continues to expand its business, which creates and sells stream and wetland mitigation credits, provides services to those engaged in permittee-responsible mitigation and provides other environmental restoration services.
This business offers an opportunity for growth and diversification in an industry where the Company has substantial knowledge and expertise and a strong reputation.
−Removed: Mitigation Resources is making strong progress toward its goal of becoming a top ten provider of stream and wetland mitigation services in the southeastern United States.
The Company believes that Mitigation Resources can provide solid rates of return on capital employed as this business matures.
−Removed: The Company also continues to pursue activities which can strengthen the resiliency of its existing coal mining operations.
+Added: NACCO also continues to pursue activities which can strengthen the resiliency of its existing coal mining operations.
The Company remains focused on managing coal production costs and maximizing efficiencies and operating capacity at mine locations to help customers with management fee contracts be more competitive.
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These projects could be developed by the Company itself or through joint ventures that include partners with expertise in energy development projects.
−Removed: The Company is committed to maintaining a conservative capital structure as it continues to grow and diversify, while avoiding unnecessary risk.
−Removed: Strategic diversification will generate cash that can be re-invested to strengthen and expand the businesses.
+Added: In 2023, NACCO formed ReGen Resources to pursue such projects, including the development of a solar farm on reclaimed land at MLMC.
+Added: NACCO is committed to maintaining a conservative capital structure as it continues to grow and diversify, while avoiding unnecessary risk.
+Added: The Company believes strategic diversification will generate cash that can be re-invested to strengthen and expand the businesses.
The Company also continues to maintain the highest levels of customer service and operational excellence with an unwavering focus on safety and environmental stewardship.
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The statements contained in this Form 10-Q that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
−Removed: These forward-looking statements are made subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented.
+Added: These forward-looking statements are made subject to certain risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
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Among the factors that could cause plans, actions and results to differ materially from current expectations are, without limitation:
−Removed: (1) changes to or termination of customer or other third-party contracts, or a customer or other third party default under a contract, (2) any customer's premature facility closure, (3) regulatory actions, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency's 2023 proposed rules relating to mercury and greenhouse gas emissions for coal-fired power plants, changes in mining permit requirements or delays in obtaining mining permits that could affect deliveries to customers, (4) a significant reduction in purchases by the Company's customers, including as a result of changes in coal consumption patterns of U.S.
−Removed: electric power generators, or changes in the power industry that would affect
−Removed: demand for the Company's coal and other mineral reserves, (5) changes in the prices of hydrocarbons, particularly diesel fuel, natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil, (6) failure or delays by the Company's lessees in achieving expected production of natural gas and other hydrocarbons;
+Added: (1) changes to or termination of customer or other third-party contracts, or a customer or other third party default under a contract, (2) any customer's premature facility closure or extended project development delay, (3) regulatory actions, including the United States Environmental Protection Agency's 2023 proposed rules relating to mercury and greenhouse gas emissions for coal-fired power plants, changes in mining permit requirements or delays in obtaining mining permits that could affect deliveries to customers, (4) a significant reduction in purchases by the Company's customers, including as a result of changes in coal consumption patterns of U.S.
+Added: electric power generators, or changes in the power industry that would affect demand for the Company's coal and other mineral reserves, (5) changes in the prices of hydrocarbons, particularly diesel fuel, natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil as result of factors such as OPEC and/or government actions, geopolitical developments, economic conditions and regulatory changes, as well as supply and demand dynamics, (6) changes in development plans by third-party lessees of the Company's mineral interests, (7) failure or delays by the Company's lessees in achieving expected production of natural gas and other hydrocarbons;
the availability and cost of transportation and processing services in the areas where the Company's oil and gas reserves are located;
−Removed: federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives relating to hydraulic fracturing;
−Removed: and the ability of lessees to obtain capital or financing needed for well-development operations and leasing and development of oil and gas reserves on federal lands, (7) failure to obtain adequate insurance coverages at reasonable rates, (8) supply chain disruptions, including price increases and shortages of parts and materials, (9) changes in tax laws or regulatory requirements, including the elimination of, or reduction in, the percentage depletion tax deduction, changes in mining or power plant emission regulations and health, safety or environmental legislation, (10) the ability of the Company to access credit in the current economic environment, or obtain financing at reasonable rates, or at all, and to maintain surety bonds for mine reclamation as a result of current market sentiment for fossil fuels, (11) impairment charges, (12) the effects of investors’ and other stakeholders’ increasing attention to environmental, social and governance matters, (13) changes in costs related to geological and geotechnical conditions, repairs and maintenance, new equipment and replacement parts, fuel or other similar items, (14) weather conditions, extended power plant outages, liquidity events or other events that would change the level of customers' coal or aggregates requirements, (15) weather or equipment problems that could affect deliveries to customers, (16) changes in the costs to reclaim mining areas, (17) costs to pursue and develop new mining, mitigation, oil and gas and solar development opportunities and other value-added service opportunities, (18) delays or reductions in coal or aggregates deliveries, (19) the ability to successfully evaluate investments and achieve intended financial results in new business and growth initiatives, (20) disruptions from natural or human causes, including severe weather, accidents, fires, earthquakes and terrorist acts, any of which could result in suspension of operations or harm to people or the environment, and (21) the ability to attract, retain, and replace workforce and administrative employees.
+Added: federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives relating to hydraulic fracturing and U.S.
+Added: export of natural gas;
+Added: and the ability of lessees to obtain capital or financing needed for well-development operations and leasing and development of oil and gas reserves on federal lands, (8) failure to obtain adequate insurance coverages at reasonable rates, (9) supply chain disruptions, including price increases and shortages of parts and materials, (10) changes in tax laws or regulatory requirements, including the elimination of, or reduction in, the percentage depletion tax deduction, changes in mining or power plant emission regulations and health, safety or environmental legislation, (11) the ability of the Company to access credit in the current economic environment, or obtain financing at reasonable rates, or at all, and to maintain surety bonds for mine reclamation as a result of current market sentiment for fossil fuels, (12) impairment charges, (13) changes in costs related to geological and geotechnical conditions, repairs and maintenance, new equipment and replacement parts, fuel or other similar items, (14) weather conditions, extended power plant outages, liquidity events or other events that would change the level of customers' coal or aggregates requirements, (15) weather or equipment problems that could affect deliveries to customers, (16) changes in the costs to reclaim mining areas, (17) costs to pursue and develop new mining, mitigation, oil and gas and solar development opportunities and other value-added service opportunities, (18) delays or reductions in coal or aggregates deliveries, (19) the ability to successfully evaluate investments and achieve intended financial results in new business and growth initiatives, (20) disruptions from natural or human causes, including severe weather, accidents, fires, earthquakes and terrorist acts, any of which could result in suspension of operations or harm to people or the environment, and (21) the ability to attract, retain, and replace workforce and administrative employees.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
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