Allegiance Coal Limited released the initial set of coal washability and qualiy test results from coal recovered by its February 2018 drill programme in relation to the Tenas metallurgical coal deposit (Tenas Project). As previously announced, the company recently completed a 34 drill hole programme from 18 drill pads within the Tenas Project comprising: Eight PQ diamond core holes: three for the installation of water monitoring wells and five for rock samples to support geochemistry studies and collect coal samples for testing; 12 sonic geotechnical holes to gather data to support the feasibility study; and 14, 150 mm core drill holes, recovering 1,400 kilograms of coal for coke oven tests by the company and three north Asian steel mills. The sample coal was sent to two locations for analysis: Birtley Coal & Minerals Testing in Calgary, Alberta (Birtley), for sizing, washability, and comprehensive coal quality analyses; and SGS Mineral Testing in Lakefield, Ontario (SGS), to undergo a pilot wash to generate product coal samples for coke oven tests by the Company, and for two steel mills in Japan and one steel mill in South Korea. The Tenas Project was the subject of a pre-feasibility study in 2017 confirming 59Mt of JORC compliant resource from three shallow coal seams, all in the measured category, and of which 21 Mt has been converted into saleable coal reserves at a strip ratio of 5.8:1 BCM/ROMt. The initial set of coal washability test results are those undertaken by Birtley and cover ash, moisture, volatile matter, fixed carbon, sulphur, and FSI (free swell index). More detailed coal analyses including most importantly petrographics and CSR (coke strength after reaction), being undertaken by Canmet and SGS, will follow over the next four weeks, along with the results of the pilot wash being undertaken by SGS.