SINGAPORE, March 24 (Reuters) - Indonesian miner PT Kaltim Prima Coal last
week agreed its first major long-term deal to sell thermal coal to China, with
1 million tonnes to be shipped in the first year, a top company official said
on Tuesday.
"It is a long-term deal for supplying coal up to five years. In the
first year we'll be supplying 1 million tonnes, in the second year it
will rise to 2 million tonnes and will go up to 5 million tonnes," Evan
Ball, director of KPC, told Reuters on the sidelines of a mining
conference in Singapore.
He did not give any details on prices.
KPC is a unit of the country's biggest miner, PT Bumi Resources Tbk
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(Reporting by Sambit Mohanty; Writing by Jonathan Leff; Editing by Ben Tan)
