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Commitments And Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 9 – Commitments and Contingencies

Royalty Agreements

The Company has entered into royalty agreements under which it is committed to pay royalties on sand sold from its production facilities for which the Company has received payment by the customer. Atlas LLC entered into a royalty agreement associated with its leased property at the Kermit facility and a mining agreement associated with its leased property at the Monahans facility, in each case, with The Sealy & Smith Foundation, a related party. The royalty agreement associated with the Kermit facility terminated on the date of our IPO, pursuant to the terms of the agreement. Under the mining agreement associated with the Monahans facility, we are committed to pay royalties on product sold from that facility and are required to pay a minimum royalty of $1.0 million for any lease year following our IPO. We have certain royalty obligations based on tonnage of sand sold under land leases associated with our OnCore distributed mining network.

On March 1, 2024, the Company entered into a pooling agreement with the General Land Office of Texas (“GLO”) that establishes a pooled unit across our fee owned lands and leased lands at the Kermit property. The pooling agreement has a current effective blended royalty rate of 5.86% on Kermit plant sales. This pooling agreement increases our operational flexibility by establishing a framework to efficiently mine across our fee owned lands and leased lands interchangeably.

Royalty expense associated with these agreements is recorded as the product is sold and is included in costs of sales. Royalty expense associated with these agreements were less than 5% of cost of sales for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, and totaled between 5% and 10% of cost of sales for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023.

Standby Letters of Credit

As of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, we had $0.6 million and $1.1 million outstanding in standby letters of credit issued under the 2023 ABL Credit Facility, respectively.

Purchase Commitments

In connection with our normal operations, we enter short-term purchase obligations for products and services.

Litigation

We are involved in various legal and administrative proceedings that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of doing business. Some of these proceedings may result in fines, penalties or judgments being assessed against us, which may adversely affect our financial results. In addition, from time to time, we are involved in various disputes, which may or may not be settled prior to legal proceedings being instituted and which may result in losses in excess of accrued liabilities, if any, relating to such unresolved disputes. Expenses related to litigation reduce operating income. We do not believe that the outcome of any of these proceedings or disputes would have a significant adverse effect on our financial position, long-term results of operations or cash flows. It is possible, however, that charges related to these matters could be significant to our results of operations or cash flows in any single accounting period. Management is not aware of any legal, environmental or other commitments and contingencies that would have a material effect on the Financial Statements.