Alliance Holdings Prices Secondary Offering at $54.21 per Unit

Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. AHGP today announced the pricing of a secondary underwritten public offering of 2,750,000 already outstanding common units representing limited partner interests in AHGP at a price to the public of $54.21 per unit. The offering is scheduled to close on April 1, 2011. The selling unitholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 412,500 common units. AHGP will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering and the number of outstanding common units of AHGP will remain unchanged.