SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Dated October 7, 2003
Fording Canadian Coal Trust
(Translation of Registrant’s Name Into English)
Suite 1000, 205-9th Avenue SE
Calgary, Alberta Canada T2G 0R4
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)
Form 20-F ______
Form 40-F ___X___
(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)
Yes ______
No __X__
(If “Yes” is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-________.
This report furnished on Form 6-K shall be incorporated by reference into each of the Registration Statements under the Securities Act of 1933 of the registrant.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
FORDING CANADIAN COAL TRUST
October 7, 2003
By: _s/James F. Jones
James F. Jones
Corporate Secretary
Exhibit Index
The following is a list of Exhibits included as part of this Report on Form 6-K.
Description of Exhibit
Number
“Fording Provides Notice of Release of Financial Results
and Conference Call” Exhibit 99
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For Immediate Release
FORDING PROVIDES NOTICE OF RELEASE OF
FINANCIAL RESULTS AND CONFERENCE CALL
CALGARY, October 7, 2003 – Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX: FDG.UN, NYSE: FDG) will release its third quarter 2003 results in the afternoon on Wednesday, October 22, 2003. A conference call to discuss the results will be held for the investment community on Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 8:00 a.m. Mountain time, 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The media are invited to participate in a listen-only mode.
To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-800-796-7558 or 416-640-1907 approximately 10 minutes prior to the call. An archived recording of the call will be available shortly after the completion of the call through Saturday, October 25, 2003 by dialling 1-877-289-8525 or 416-640-1917 and entering pass code 21020168 followed by the pound key.
A live and archived audio webcast of the conference call will also be available on Fording’s website www.fording.ca under Investor Relations, Event Calendar.
Fording Canadian Coal Trust filed today on SEDAR and EDGAR certain supplemental financial information. The financial information gives effect to the Plan of Arrangement completed February 28, 2003 as if it was completed in 2002. The information filed today corrects a mathematical calculation error in similar supplemental information filed May 22, 2003 by restating the number of outstanding units and recalculating per unit amounts.
Fording Canadian Coal Trust is an open-ended investment trust. Through investments in metallurgical coal and industrial minerals mining and processing operations, the Trust makes quarterly cash distributions to unitholders. The Trust, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fording Inc., holds a 65% ownership of the Elk Valley Coal Corporation and is the world’s largest producer of the industrial mineral wollastonite. The Elk Valley Coal Corporation, comprised of Canada’s senior metallurgical coal mining properties, is the world’s second largest exporter of metallurgical coal, capable of supplying approximately 25 million tonnes of high-quality coal products annually to the international steel industry.
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For further information contact:
Mark Gow, CA
Director, Investor Relations
403-260-9834
mark_gow@fording.ca