January 9, 2026 - Warrior Met Coal, Inc has celebrated the completion of the Blue Creek Mine project, a longwall mine located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA, which it invested approximately $1 billion to develop.

Company executives were joined by state and local elected officials, federal delegation staff, Bureau of Land Management leadership and industry partners to celebrate the project and the impact it will have on the local and state economy.

The Blue Creek Mine is a single longwall mine and is expected to have the capacity to produce an average of 6 million short tons (5.4 Mt) annually of metallurgical coal over the first 10 years of production. This will increase Warrior’s annual nameplate capacity by approximately 75%.

The Blue Creek Mine project also includes a rail load-out facility located in Fayette County, a barge load-out facility located in Walker County, and a curved overland belt designed and supplied by BEUMER Group to deliver coal to the rail load-out facility. The curved overland belt is a unique feature to Blue Creek that will allow clean coal to be transported to a rail facility, Warrior Met Coal says. This significantly reduces truck traffic and limits the impact on local communities.

In addition to Warrior’s investment, substantial commitments from other stakeholders across the state are supporting the growth of the Blue Creek project and related developments in Alabama. Norfolk Southern is investing over $200 million in its 3B Corridor, strengthening the connection between northern and central Alabama and the Port of Mobile. The Alabama Port Authority is also investing over $200 million to modernise and improve efficiency at its McDuffie Coal Terminal, supported by an additional $20 million in funding from the Alabama Legislature. Further enhancing logistics capacity, Parker Towing Company, Inc. has invested over $20 million in capital equipment to ensure efficient barge transportation.

The Blue Creek Mine will provide access to one of the largest untouched metallurgical coal reserves in North America. Met coal has unique physical properties and is used solely to produce steel, and is shipped around the world for this purpose.

“This transformational growth investment reinforces Warrior’s position as the premier US pure-play producer of premium metallurgical coal products,” Walt Scheller, CEO of Warrior, says. “From inception to completion, this project has been a collaborative effort with vendors, transportation partners, and state and federal agencies to ensure success for a project with an economic impact to rural Alabama for the next 40 years.”

Blue Creek is, Warrior Met Coal says, one of the last remaining large-scale, untapped met coal reserves in the US, and is expected to have a mine life of over 40 years.