NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LP — Director's Dealing 2017

Feb 15, 2017

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LP (NRP)
CIK: 0001171486
Period of Report: 2017-02-13

Reporting Person: WOOTEN GREGORY F (VP, Chief Engineer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2017-02-13	Common Units	M	330	—	Acquired	330	Direct
2017-02-13	Common Units	D	330	$36.5375	Disposed	0	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2017-02-13	Phantom Units	$	M	330	Disposed	2017-02-13	Common Units (330)	Direct

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Phantom Units	$	2018-02-12	Common Units (347)	347	Direct
Phantom Units	$	2019-02-11	Common Units (950)	950	Direct

Footnotes

F1: The common units were deemed to have been purchased and sold on the date of vesting of the phantom units listed in Table II, which were paid in cash on a one for one basis based on the average closing price of the common units for the 20 trading days immediately preceding the date of vesting, together with accrued distribution equivalent rights.

F2: The phantom units were granted to the reporting person under the issuer's long-term incentive plan. All phantom unit numbers have have been adjusted to reflect the issuer's 1-for-10 reverse unit split completed in February 2016.

F3: The phantom units will be paid in cash based on the average closing price of the common units for the 20 trading days immediately preceding the date of vesting.

F4: Award included tandem distribution equivalent rights pursuant to which the quarterly distributions paid by the partnership on each unit will be accrued over the vesting period and paid on vesting.

F5: As described in Footnote 1, upon vesting, the phantom units were paid in cash on a one for one basis based on the average closing price of the common units for the 20 trading days immediately preceding the date of vesting, together with accrued distribution equivalent rights.