Alliance Resource Partners (ARLP) 10-Q 2019 Q2 Quarterly report

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Quarterly Report of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (the “Partnership”) on Form 10-Q for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Joseph W. Craft III, President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Resource Management GP, LLC, the general partner of the Partnership, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 1350, as adopted pursuant to section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of the Partnership.

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	By:	/s/ Joseph W. Craft III
	Joseph W. Craft III
	President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
	of Alliance Resource Management GP, LLC
	(the general partner of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.)

        Date: August 5, 2019

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate document.  A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Partnership and will be retained by the Partnership and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.