The PREPLAB TESTING SERVICES GROUP offers the coal industry a full range of services:

• borecore treatment program design for exploration samples
  
• pre-treatment and analysis of borecore samples
  
• analysis of preparation plant feed samples
  
• metallurgical and process sample evaluations
  
• preparation and dispatch of market samples
  

In the preparation and pre-treatment process, each facility can perform all or some of the following activities:

• Crushing and Sample Division
• Drop Shatter Testwork
• Wet Tumble Test
• Sample Preparation  ( milling or grinding)
• Desliming
• Size Analysis  ( wet or dry) 
• Bulk Density
• Float – Sink Testing
• Flotation Studies 
• Magnetics Content

The Laboratory Group can handle all the following tests in-house.

• Total Moisture
• Relative Density
• Proximate Analysis
• Crucible Swelling Number
• Total Sulfur 
• Gross Calorific Value
• Gieseler  Plastometer 
• Dilatometer
• Ash Fusibility 
• Ultimate Analysis ( C, H, N )
• Gray King Coke Type 
• Hardgrove Grindability Index

Other analyses available through Associate Laboratories are:

• Petrographic  Analysis
• Carbonisation Tests
• Trace Metal Analysis