Natural Resource Partners L.P Retires $98 Million of 9.125% Senior Notes due 2025

Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: NRP) today announced it has retired $98 million of its 9.125% Senior Notes due 2025 in the second quarter of 2022. These notes were purchased on the open market at a weighted average price of 102.23%, a discount to the current redemption price of 104.563%. The retirement of this debt will save approximately $9 million annually in interest savings. After giving effect to the transactions, $202 million of NRP’s 9.125% Senior Notes due 2025 remain outstanding and NRP has a 1.6x pro-forma leverage ratio as of March 31, 2022.

“As a result of the Partnership’s free cash flow generation, solid liquidity, and positive outlook for its business lines, we were able to opportunistically retire over 30% of our outstanding Senior Notes,” said Craig Nunez, NRP’s president and chief operating officer. “This early debt reduction demonstrates our ongoing commitment to solidify our capital structure and maximize unitholder value.”

Company Profile

Natural Resource Partners L.P., a master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, TX, is a diversified natural resource company that owns, manages and leases a diversified portfolio of properties in the United States including coal, industrial minerals and other natural resources, as well as rights to conduct carbon sequestration and renewable energy activities. NRP also owns an equity investment in Sisecam Wyoming LLC, one of the world’s lowest-cost producers of soda ash.

For additional information please contact Tiffany Sammis at 713-751-7515 or tsammis@nrplp.com. Further information about NRP is available on the partnership’s website at http://www.nrplp.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Partnership expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on certain assumptions made by the Partnership based on its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Partnership. These risks include, among other things, statements regarding: the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic; future distributions on the Partnership’s common and preferred units; the Partnership's business strategy; its liquidity and access to capital and financing sources; its financial strategy; prices of and demand for coal, trona and soda ash, and other natural resources; estimated revenues, expenses and results of operations; projected future performance by the Partnership's lessees, including Foresight Energy; Sisecam Wyoming LLC’s trona mining and soda ash refinery operations; distributions from the soda ash joint venture; the impact of governmental policies, laws and regulations, as well as regulatory and legal proceedings involving the Partnership, and of scheduled or potential regulatory or legal changes; global and U.S. economic conditions; and other factors detailed in Natural Resource Partners’ Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Natural Resource Partners L.P. has no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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