Find the coal deal's fatal flaw before it becomes your balance-sheet problem.
Clear Creek Advisory helps buyers, traders, operators, lenders, insurers, and counsel identify operational and regulatory exposure, production reality gaps, coal-quality variance, shipment risk, and hidden deal problems before capital or cargo value is at risk.
Rapid Risk Screen
Go / No-Go Coal Asset & Shipment Review
Regulatory exposure
S&S, high negligence, orders, POV indicators
Physical mining reality
seam, geology, roof, ventilation, haulage, equipment
Coal-quality and contract variance
COA/spec comparison, blend risk, penalty exposure
Commercial consequence
downtime, capex, cargo claims, price adjustment, EBITDA haircut
Experience
Operator insight. Enforcement perspective. Commercial coal judgment.
Clear Creek Advisory is led by a coal industry professional with combined underground operations and MSHA health and safety enforcement experience. The focus is practical: what can hurt the transaction, the shipment, the mine, or the buyer?
15+ years underground coal operations
11+ years federal mine health and safety regulatory experience
Direct experience evaluating operational risk indicators and compliance patterns
Focus on real-world vs paper production gaps
Coal-quality, shipment, and commercial-risk review capability
What we do
Boardroom clarity. Mine-site reality.
The work product is built for managing directors, counsel, underwriters, lenders, operators, traders, and buyers who need a direct answer: what can hurt the deal, how badly, and what should be checked next?
Fatal Flaw Due Diligence
Rapid operational reviews for coal acquisitions: roof, ribs, ventilation, haulage, production reality, regulatory exposure, and hidden capex.
Operational & Regulatory Risk Review
Operational and regulatory review of compliance history, operational trends, incident patterns, production risk indicators, and elevated commercial-risk factors.
EBITDA Impact Analysis
Translate operational hazards into financial consequences: downtime, capex catch-up, penalty exposure, insurance impacts, and deal repricing.
Technical Incident & Operational Review
Independent technical review for counsel, insurers, lenders, and operators involving incidents, operational disputes, enforcement actions, or commercial-risk evaluation.
Met coal quality and commercial-risk review powered by CoalSense.
CoalSense is used internally by Clear Creek Advisory to support source-traceable COA review, specification comparison, blend-risk screening, and commercial exposure analysis for metallurgical coal transactions.
Founding pilot offer
CoalSense-Assisted Met Coal Quality Review
Initial paid pilot reviews are available for anonymized, historical, or redacted COAs and spec sheets.
Starting at $750
Includes report preparation and a 30-minute review call.
COA and buyer/spec sheet comparison
Ash, sulfur, VM, moisture, HGI, FSI, phosphorus, CSR/CRI review
Blend-risk and coke-quality screening
Commercial exposure and penalty-risk estimate
Source-traceable report with OCR confidence notes
30-minute review call for findings and next steps
Built for commercial decisions
The goal is simple: help buyers, traders, and coal suppliers identify where a coal deal, shipment, blend, or spec sheet can go wrong before it becomes a penalty, rejection, dispute, or coke-quality problem.
Typical intake documents
COAs, buyer specifications, shipment samples, mine or prep plant reports, loadout records, contract quality clauses, and historical quality data.
Process
A direct review built for decisions.
Clear Creek focuses on practical findings, not generic consultant language. The goal is to help you decide whether to proceed, renegotiate, investigate further, or walk away.
1. Intake
Send available COAs, specifications, operating records, incident history, maps, photos, or deal documents.
2. Review
Clear Creek screens operational, compliance, commercial, and coal-quality risk using field experience and CoalSense-assisted analysis.
3. Report
You receive a focused written review identifying risk drivers, likely financial impact, and recommended next actions.
Risk areas
Where coal deals and shipments get hurt.
Risk is rarely isolated. Mine conditions, enforcement history, quality variance, shipment data, and commercial terms often interact.
Roof, rib, and ground control failure modes
Ventilation plan reality vs working-section conditions
Haul road design, dumping locations, berms, and equipment compatibility
Electrical, guarding, and mobile equipment maintenance exposure
Accident clustering, citation trends, elevated compliance risk, and operational exposure
Production plan vs seam thickness, geology, fleet capacity, and manpower
Request review
Send the COA, spec sheet, mine file, or deal problem.
For coal-quality reviews, include the COA or lab report, buyer/spec sheet, basis used, tonnage if available, and the issue you want checked. Redacted and historical samples are acceptable for early review.
What to send
COA or lab report
Buyer/spec sheet or contract quality limits
Coal type and intended use
Basis and units, if known
Shipment tonnage, if available
Specific concern or dispute question
Confidentiality can be discussed before full document review. Redacted files are acceptable for initial scoping.