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Coal, copper, and gold are the principal reserves mined in Mongolia. Several gold mines are located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) north of Ulaanbaatar, such as Boroo Gold Mine and Gatsuurt Gold Mine. Khotgor Coal Mine is an open-pit coal mining site about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Ulaangom.
1995 - MAK founded Bumbat LLC, a Mongolian-Canadian joint venture, and became the fourth-largest gold producer in Mongolia 2000 - MAK diversified its business by starting thermal coal production 2002 - Qinghua-MAK Naryn Sukhait LLC , the first Mongolian-Chinese joint venture in the mining sector, was established
This list of mines in Mongolia is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
A Mongolian ninja miner, panning for gold. Ninja miner is a nickname for a person who digs small unauthorized mines or pans dirt for gold in Mongolia. [1] The miners are so named because the green bowls they use for panning, when carried on their backs, are said to resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
In 2001, Canadian-based Ivanhoe Mines estimated the resource gold-copper ore deposit in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which Soviets had discovered officially before 1990. It is in an area known as Oyu Tolgoi (Mongolian for Turquoise Hill), [3] where in the time of Genghis Khan outcropping rocks were smelted for copper. [4]
The Tavt mine (Mongolian: Тавт) is a gold mines in the Teshig sum of Bulgan aimag in northern Mongolia. The mine consists of strips that have gold-silver-copper ingredient. The reserves are estimated to a total of about 7.2 t of Gold and more than 25 t of silver. The yearly capacity is about 350 kg of gold. [1]
Boroo was owned by the Canadian mining company, Centerra Gold Inc. It began commercial production in March 2004 and produced more than 1.5 million ounces (46 tons) of gold through the end of 2010. The Boroo mine was the first hard-rock gold mine established in Mongolia and the largest foreign investment in the country at the time it began ...
Gatsuurt Gold Mine is a planned open-pit gold mining site in Mandal sum (district) of Selenge Province, Mongolia. Gatsuurt gold mine is 35 kilometers east of Boroo Gold Mine . History