Recent news
EBRD loan to help Sharyn Gol produce clean fuel briquettes
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending $10 million to Sharyn Gol JSC for the acquisition and installation of a de-stoning plant and the upgrade and expansion of a coal enrichment and briquetting plant.
The sound of one hand clapping
Careful readers will find on another page of this issue a quote from the indefatigable anti-corruption crusader, President Ts. Elbegdorj, “Corruption makes Mongolia look awful, ugly.”
Erdenes MGL buys coal transport road from MMC
Erdenes MGL has taken control of the Ukhaa Khudag-Gashuun Sukhait paved road from Gobi Road, a subsidiary of the Mongolian Mining Corporation, on payment of an amount equivalent to approximately $90,323,295.42 at the current exchange rate.
From draft to State Policy – a long journey
The State Policy in the Mineral Sector was passed last month after being discussed for over two months. President Ts.Elbegdorj had proclaimed a decree last March and a working group was set up to prepare a draft policy for Parliament to discuss. After working for almost half a year, the working group submitted the draft to the State Great Khural at the Fall Session.
Russians “welcome, but only on competitive terms”
The 17th and the latest inter-governmental meeting between Russia and Mongolia in Moscow had a long agenda and ended with several decisions to enhance collaboration between the two nations. These included some issues of importance in the mining sector. S. Bold-Erdene talks to vice minister of mining, O. Erdenebulgan, to find out more.
Game-changing sub-programmes in the making
A novel feature of the draft State Policy on the Mineral Sector, awaiting Parliament’s approval, is that its implementation will be effected through several sub-programmes, the detailed explanatory and regulatory articles related to which will ultimately demarcate the way along which the whole mineral sector will develop until 2025.
MMJ moves with the times
I wish to congratulate the staff of the Mongolian Mining Journal on the magazine’s 5th anniversary and wish them more success in the years to come.
It has always been a magazine of the times
Looking back, 2008 was a landmark year for the mining industry of Mongolia. Mining began in many deposits, reserve estimates in several already discovered deposits were re-estimated, and talks began on operating Oyu Tolgoi and Tavan Tolgoi.