---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-036568"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "METC"
cik: "0001687187"
company_name: "Ramaco Resources, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T10:22:47.775085+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Former U.S. Senator Joseph Manchin III appointed to Ramaco Resources board

## Summary
- Effective April 18, 2025; term expires at 2025 annual meeting.
- Manchin will chair Technology Committee and serve on Finance/Investment and Nominating/Governance committees.
- Independent director compensation: $125K annual retainer, $25K committee chair retainer, 10,560 restricted stock units vesting Jan 31, 2026.
- Manchin Partners LLC to receive $10K/month for strategic advisory services on public policy, energy, and technology.
- Manchin brings experience as Senate Energy Committee chair and advocate for met coal and critical mineral supply chains.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-036568
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: METC
- cik: 0001687187
- company_name: Ramaco Resources, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687187/000110465925036568/0001104659-25-036568-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687187/000110465925036568/tm2512753d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joseph Manchin III was appointed as Director at Ramaco Resources, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 18, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ramaco Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) approved the appointment of former US Senator Joseph Manchin III to serve as a member of the Board effective April 18, 2025, with a term expiring at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2025 or until his earlier death, resignation, disqualification, or removal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687187/000110465925036568/0001104659-25-036568-index.htm

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