Ramaco Resources (METC) S-3/AShelf registration (amended)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 27, 2023

No. 333-274324

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Amendment No. 1 to

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Ramaco Resources, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its certificate of incorporation)

250 West Main Street, Suite 1900

Lexington, Kentucky 40507

(859) 244-7455

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Randall W. Atkins Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

250 West Main Street, Suite 1900

Lexington, Kentucky 40507

(859) 244-7455

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to:

Ralph V. De Martino

Cavas S. Pavri

ArentFox Schiff LLP

1717 K Street NW

Washington, DC 20006

Telephone: (202) 857-6000

Fax: (202) 857-6395

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of the Registration Statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. x

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

The registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 EXPLANATORY NOTE

Ramaco Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 (this “Amendment”) to its Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-274324) (the “Registration Statement”) as an exhibits-only filing, solely to file Exhibit 4.3. Accordingly, this Amendment consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 16(a) of Part II of the Registration Statement, the signature page to the Registration Statement and the filed exhibits. This Amendment does not modify any provision of the prospectus contained in Part I or the balance of Part II of the Registration Statement.

Item 16. Exhibits.

(a)       Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lexington, State of Kentucky, on September 27, 2023.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.