This study aims at identifying the proper parts of C-1 and B-2 coking coal seams in the North block of East-Parvadeh coal deposit (Central Iran) using the concentration-volume (C-V) fractal modeling according to sulfur and ash values which were calculated by turning bands conditional simulation. The C-V log-log plots were generated based on results of 100 realizations derived via turning bands simulation which show seven different geochemical populations for both sulfur and ash data in By seam which has a relatively good quality for coking coal with sulfur and ash values lower than 1.548% and 6.39% respectively. Additionally, C-V log-log plots indicate that there are seven and six for sulfur and ash geochemical populations in C-1 seam containing a proper coal quality with respect to sulfur and ash values less than 1.41% and 6.92% respectively. High quality populations are located in the northern and western parts of the studied area which correlated with USGS standard. The logratio matrix was used for the correlation between results obtained by the C-V fractal modeling and geological particulars consisting of pyritic veins and ash coals. Based on the logratio matrix for sulfur values higher than 3.55% and 3.39% for C-1 and B-2, respectively, low quality parts of the seams have good correlation with pyritic veins in the eastern and central parts of the area. Moreover, there are high values of overall accuracy (OA) for correlation between parts of the seams with high values of ash which are 47.86% and 39.81% for C-1 and B-2, respectively, and ash coals obtained by geological data. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.