JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – PT Bumi Resources Minerals Tbk (BRMS) suffered loss of US$141 million in first nine months ended September of 2014, widened from loss US$56.84 million in the same period of 2013.

Revenue declined 14.5% to US$13.06 million from previous US$15.29 million. Operating profit however increased 11.1% to US$7.92 million.

Interest and finance charges jumped 114% to US$94.6 million from earlier US$44.25 million. Equity in net loss of associate also surged to US$65.35 million from US$18.18 million a previous year.

As at September 2014, BRMS’ assets reached US$1.83 billion, of which cash accounted for US$4.19 million. While liability was US$669.3 million.