Coal reference price for October set at $76.61

Tuesday, October 8 2013 - 01:57 AM WIB

By Romel S. Gurky

The government announced its coal reference price (HBA) for October 2013 at US$76.61 FOB vessel, lower compared to $76.89 per ton in September.

The HBA is the price cited for the delivery period of October 1-31, the Directorate General of Coal and Minerals said in a statement Tuesday. Price for term contract is the average HBA over the past three months.

Coal price reference is based on coal with GCV (GAR) of 6,322 kcal/kg.

HBA is calculated from the monthly average of four international coal indices: Indonesian coal index/ICI 1, Platts-1, New Castle Export Index and Newcastle Global Coal Index.

No BRAND Specification Price (USD/Ton)
CV (kcal/kg GAR) TM (%, ar) TS (%, ar) Ash (%,ar)
1 Gunung Bayan I 7.000 10.00 1.00 15.00 82.18
2 Prima Coal 6.700 12.00 0.60 5.00

82.46

3 Pinang 6150 6.200 14.50 0.60 5.50 74.51
4 Indominco IM_East 5.700 17.50 1.63 4.80 62.70
5 Melawan Coal 5.400 22.50 0.40 5.00 60.72
6 Envirocoal 5.000 26.00 0.10 1.20 57.06
7 Jorong J-1 4.400 32.00 0.25 4.15 45.95
8 Ecocoal 4.200 35.00 0.18 3.90 41.98

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak

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