The company secured the permit with the upgrade to its Exploration Forestry Permit to an In-Principle Forestry Operations Permit.
Realm owns a 51% stake in the open-cut Katingan Ria ash coal mine, located in Kalimantan, Indonesia and is forecasting production in 2013.
A drilling program to upgrade the current resource is presently underway at the site, the results of which are expected before December 2012.
Realm chairman Richard Rossiter said, "The In-Principle Licence is the last stage prior to the issuance of the "Borrow and Use of Forest Area Permit" 2 or so called Ijin Pinjam Pakai Kawasan Hutan (IPPKH) which allows the Company to start mining."
The In-Principle License covers a total area of 3,058.25ha, where mining operations are set to begin shortly over the first 1,000ha.
