Canadian coal exploration and development company Compliance Energy Corporation has announced that testing has been completed at GWIL Industries' Birtley Coal & Mineral Testing Division in Alberta, Canada and at SGS North America Inc. (Mineral Services Division) in West Virginia, US on core from the 2009 drilling program. The findings have confirmed that coal from the Raven Project on Vancouver Island is a High Volatile Bituminous A coking coal.
The characteristics of this type of coal allow it to be blended with other coking coals (low to mid volatile) for the production of coke used in steelmaking. The Raven coal exhibits similar characteristics to the Kellerman and Elkhorn Group (Blend Group G5) of coals under the Classification of Coking Coal By Quality By Group, used historically by Nippon Steel Corporation.