Robert F. Pusateri
Analyst
David, this is Bob Pusateri. David, during the quarter, we shipped roughly 1 million tons. We told you at the end of the first quarter conference call that we had 400,000 tons sold at a price of $185. Of that 400,000 tons, we had 1 major customer, at a very high price, delay roughly 31% of his shipments. So that was the first item that we had to deal with. As the coal comes out of the ground, Buchanan came back to work on May and June and they'd had great productivity. And we needed to sell that coal. So we searched the globe looking for the best places to put our coal. At the time that the tons needed to move, we were able to pick up 2 vessels moving to China. China doesn't buy low-vol coal from the United States. We switched it to a high-vol or a high ash product, and we ended up shipping roughly 300-and-some-thousand tons, 303,000 tons, at an average price for that high ash at $85. Given the cost system that we have at Buchanan, even with the -- taking the month of April off, we still had a very good pretax margin. So that's what happened to us in the quarter. Nothing magic about it. We're scouring the globe looking for the best place to put our coals and that's what we came up with, given the fact that we had one customer all of a sudden, without warning, delayed shipments. The other side of it, we just decided to delay Buchanan for a week. Just again, it's just to match market and demand. We have -- we forecasted roughly 1.2 million tons of met sales, low-vol met sales, for the third quarter. We have 800,000 tons sold, 400,000 tons into the spot market. We currently are in active negotiations with a customer today for 1/2 of that 400,000 tons. And we'll be again, once again, scouring the globe to find a home for the additional 200,000 tons in order to hit the 1.2 million for the quarter.