January 30, 2013

Problems increase in Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi coal mine - UPI.com

Problems increase in Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi coal mine - UPI.com: "ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Mongolia's massive state-owned coal mine, the Tavan Tolgoi, is facing increasing problems.

Last week, Erdenes-Tavan Tolgoi, the state-owned mining company that owns the Tavan Tolgoi project, said it had stopped coal exports to China and threatened to cancel its coal-for-loan deal with Chinese resource company Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chalco.

The Tavan Tolgoi deposit, about 125 miles from the Chinese-Mongolian border, has a total estimated resource of 6.4 billion tons, one-quarter of which is high-quality coking coal."

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