LG Corp. starts Indonesian coal production

South Korea's trading company LG Corp.said Wednesday that it has started producing coal at a mine in Kalimantan, news agency Yonhap reported .

LG holds a 40 percent stake in the coal mine with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons, while Indonesia's PT.Megaprima Persada owns the rest, the South Korean trading company said.

LG plans to bring some of coal to be produced in the mine to South Korea and export the rest to Japan and South East Asian countries, the report said.(*)