  We show that the volumes of certain hyperbolic A-adequate links can be
bounded (above and) below in terms of two diagrammatic quantities: the twist
number and the number of certain alternating tangles in an A-adequate diagram.
We then restrict our attention to plat closures of certain braids, a rich
family of links whose volumes can be bounded in terms of the twist number
alone. Furthermore, in the absence of special tangles, our volume bounds can be
expressed in terms of a single stable coefficient of the colored Jones
polynomial. Consequently, we are able to provide a new collection of links that
satisfy a Coarse Volume Conjecture.
