Mr. David Austin reports

THE PASSING OF TONY HAMMOND AND A CORPORATE UPDATE

Colonial Coal International Corp. is saddened by the recent passing of Anthony (Tony) Hammond, a founding director of Colonial and a longtime friend and supporter of Colonial Coal, its management and all mining projects that Mr. Hammond was instrumental in administrating and developing. Tony served as a director of Colonial Coal International since October, 2010, and a director of Colonial Coal Corp. since November, 2008. As a mining engineer, Mr. Hammond acted as the chairman and managing director of Great Orme Mines Ltd., in North Wales, United Kingdom, since March, 1990. Formerly, from 1963 to 1981, Mr. Hammond worked for Anglo American Corp. in various positions, including as the manager of planning at the Vaal Reefs mine in South Africa. Mr. Hammond was also previously the chief consulting mining engineer of Robertson Research International from 1981 to 1984, and has acted on the boards of directors of numerous public companies including NEMI.

David Austin, Colonial Coal's chief executive officer, stated: "With Tony's passing we not only lose a valuable contributor and supporter of Colonial Coal, but we also lose a very dear and cherished friend who has supported the corporation and me and my family personally for over 35 years. Our sincerest condolences to Tony's family; which is our family; and we wish them nothing but support and the continuing knowledge that Tony was a great person who will be missed by many."

Colonial Coal continues to work very hard and in earnest with its bankers to solicit various significant levels of interest in connection with each of its seasoned Huguenot and Flatbed coking coal projects located in northeast British Columbia; the Huguenot project itself being the subject of a prior preliminary economic assessment which was published by the corporation.

About Colonial Coal International Corp.

Colonial Coal is a publicly traded coal corporation in British Columbia that focuses primarily on coking coal projects. The Northeast Coal Block of British Columbia, within which the corporation's projects are located, hosts a number of proven deposits and has been the subject of merger and acquisition activities by Anglo-American and others.

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