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The value of coal exports from Mongolia jumped to $4.5 billion in the first 9 months of 2022. [ 4 ] Significant price discrepancies between coking coal sold in Mongolia (~$70 per ton), China (~$140 a ton) and the international market (~$300 per ton) are the main source of the alleged wrongdoing.
Investigations found that the accident was a result of illegal construction and production of the coal mine, reckless operation of the contracting construction company, and oversight by local party committees, governments, and departments.
The 2018–2019 Mongolian protests was a series of mass demonstrations and popular protests against the president and the government after a leak which showed scandals and links of embezzlement with parliament speaker and corruption scandals also unleashed.
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Tavan Tolgoi coal mine in Ömnögovi Province. Mongolia hosts 0.2% of the world's known coal reserves at an estimated 162 billion tonnes in 2011 with 17 operating coal mines. Mongolia exported 73% of the 25 million tons of coal produced in 2010, making it the country's largest export (which had previously been copper).
Location of Xilingol League (red) in Inner Mongolia (orange), where the majority of protests occurred. On the night of May 10, 2011 an ethnic Mongol herdsman was killed by a coal truck driver near Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China. The incident, alongside grievances over mining development in the region and the perceived erosion of traditional ...
The United States and Mongolia will announce plans to sign an "Open Skies" civil aviation agreement, a U.S. official said, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Mongolian Prime Minister L. Oyun ...
The West Tsankhi section of the Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit has been in operation since 1967, as a small coal mine. It supplied coal to the Mongolian domestic market, but in August 2011, started exporting coal to China [16] In 2009 in order to maximize the mine's production, the Mongolian government put the mine up for international companies and ...