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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-084511"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "METC"
cik: "0001687187"
company_name: "Ramaco Resources, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:19:06.561334+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ramaco retains Hatch to lead Pre-Feasibility Study for Brook Mine REE/CM project

## Summary
- Hatch Ltd. retained to lead Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) including test-work, pilot plant design, and flowsheet optimization for Brook Mine rare earth elements and critical minerals project.
- Deposit estimated at 1.7 million tons total rare earth oxide (TREO) per updated Weir International geological assessments.
- Fluor Corporation's preliminary economic assessment (PEA) confirmed the project is commercially and technologically feasible.
- PFS will serve as foundational planning document for future permitting, investment, and offtake discussions.
- Ramaco notes this would be the first new rare earth mine and refining project in the US since 1952.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-084511
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: METC
- cik: 0001687187
- company_name: Ramaco Resources, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687187/000121390025084511/0001213900-25-084511-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687187/000121390025084511/ea0256019-8k_ramaco.htm

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