{"url_path":"/sec/acrg/8-k/2026-06-16/item-1-01","section_key":"item-1-01","section_title":"Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-06-16","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/773717/0001213900-26-069176-index.html","accession_number":"0001213900-26-069176","cik":"0000773717","ticker":"ACRG","issuer_name":"American Clean Resources Group, Inc.","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/773717/0001213900-26-069176-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000773717","primary_entity_name":"American Clean Resources Group, Inc."},"word_count":481,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive\nAgreement.**\n\n** **\n\nOn June 12, 2026, effective as of June 9, 2026, American Clean Resources\nGroup, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Joint Exploration and Development Agreement (the “Agreement”) with\nTRG Holdings, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“TRG Holdings”). The Agreement establishes a framework for the joint\nexploration, technical evaluation, regulatory pursuit, and commercial scoping of an integrated energy generation, critical minerals processing,\nand data center infrastructure campus on or adjacent to the Company’s Millers Hub property in Esmeralda County, Nevada (the “Project”).\n\n \n\nThe Agreement is the project-specific framework for the Millers Hub\nproperty contemplated by a previously executed, non-binding joint venture framework dated May 6, 2026 among the Company, the TRG Holdings\nparties (including its affiliates H2O, LLC and ARMtech), and American Clean Energy LLC (“ACE”), which established a non-binding\nplatform anticipating that individual project sites would be advanced under separate project-specific agreements. As previously disclosed\nin the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 28, 2026, ACE is a joint venture between the Company’s wholly owned\nsubsidiary, ACRG Energy Holdings, Inc., and Phoenix New Era, LLC, in which ACRG Energy Holdings holds a controlling membership interest.\nThe parties anticipate that ACE will participate in any definitive agreement for the Project in a role related to energy offtake structuring\nand data center integration, drawing on the experience of ACE’s principals in developing and financing large-scale data center and\npower infrastructure projects.\n\n \n\nUnder the Agreement, the parties will jointly pursue, among other activities,\na geothermal resource assessment, the pursuit of a Solar Energy Zone designation and associated federal land use authorizations, the pursuit\nof geothermal leasing rights from the Bureau of Land Management, and technical and commercial scoping of the integrated campus. The Agreement\nhas an initial term of eighteen (18) months, subject to extension by mutual agreement.\n\n \n\nThe Agreement is binding with respect to certain obligations, including\nmutual exclusivity within a defined geographic area surrounding the Millers Hub property, the sharing of approved third-party joint work\ncosts, confidentiality, and coordination of regulatory and public disclosures. The Agreement does not itself establish an operating joint\nventure, partnership, or definitive commercial relationship for the development, construction, ownership, or operation of the Project,\ndoes not transfer any interest in the Company’s real property or mineral rights, and does not commit either party to fund project\ncapital expenditures beyond an agreed joint work budget. Any operating relationship would be effected only through a definitive agreement\nto be negotiated following completion of the joint work, and the specific economic and governance terms of any such definitive agreement\nremain subject to good-faith negotiation.\n\n \n\nThe foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete\nand is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement, a copy of which the Company intends to file as an exhibit\nto its next periodic report."}