NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERS L.P. NRP FINANCE CORPORATION Purchase AgreementRegistration Rights Agreement • September 17th, 2013 • Natural Resource Partners Lp • Bituminous coal & lignite surface mining • New York
Natural Resource Partners L.P., a limited partnership organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Partnership”), and NRP Finance Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”), propose to issue and sell to the several parties named in Schedule I hereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”), $300,000,000 principal amount of their 9.125% Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued under an indenture (the “Indenture”), to be dated as of the Closing Date, between the Issuers and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Securities will have the benefit of a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), among the Issuers and the Initial Purchasers, pursuant to which the Issuers will agree will agree to file with the Sec
