In December 2016, following the acquisition of the Debiensko Hard Coking Coal Mine Prairie Mining Limited applied to the Ministry of Environment to amend the 50 year Debiensko mining concession. The purpose of the concession amendment was to extend the time stipulated in the mining concession for first production of coal from 2018 to 2025. Prairie has now received an initial (non-binding) and appealable, first instance decision from the MoE that has denied the Company's amendment application.