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American Resources Corporation Strengthens Team with Appointment of Well-Established Industry Executive to Oversee American Carbon Subsidiary
Bernie Mason will oversee the Company's metallurgical carbon operations as President of American CarbonMr. Mason brings years of mining experience and success
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[{"type":"text","content":"Bernie Mason will oversee the Company's metallurgical carbon operations as President of American CarbonMr. Mason brings years of mining experience and success to the Company's low-cost, high-growth carbon platform Mr. Mason's appointment provides additional capacity for management to steer overall innovation, expansion and execution of the Company Including American Rare Earth DivisionFISHERS, IN / ACCESSWIRE / March 15, 2021 / American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ:AREC) (\"American Resources\" or the \"Company\"), a next generation and socially responsible supplier of raw materials to the new infrastructure and electrification marketplace, today announced the appointment of long-time mining operator and executive, Gregory \"Bernie\" Mason as President of the Company's American Carbon subsidiary.Mr. Mason commented, \"I have known the American Resources team for some time and it's very exciting to be joining their family and innovative, low-cost platform that they have built over the past five years. We have a tremendous opportunity to be a stable and meaningful supplier of high-quality raw materials to the growing steel and infrastructure marketplace as the need to upgrade our infrastructure to fit a greener economy expands. The efforts they have put forth to restructure these premium complexes to be cost competitive and stable producers of metallurgical carbon will be very apparent during our ramp up of production over the next three years.\"Mr. Mason has held several senior level management positions within the coal industry over the past 40 years. Most recently, Mr. Mason served as the President and CEO of Xinergy LTD, a publicly listed mining company with multiple sites throughout Central Appalachia, until 2016. Prior to Xinergy, Mr. Mason served as Chief Operating Officer for Energy Coal Resources as well as Appalachian Fuels, LLC where he oversaw all aspects of those fully integrated mining companies. During the 1990's, Mr. Mason was Vice President of Technical Services for Addington Enterprises, the fourth largest coal mining company in the United States, with 60 million tons of annual production located in nine states.Mark Jensen, Chairman and CEO of American Resources Corporation commented, \"First and foremost, we're really excited to have someone of Bernie's caliber oversee our metallurgical carbon operations. Most ...