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Mongolian Coal's Long Road to Market: China, Russia and Mongolia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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In Mongolia today, hunger for coal, copper, gold and uranium wealth is at odds with democracy as the demands of international resource giants collide with a stubborn political culture of resource nationalism.

In time for the June 2012 parliamentary elections, Mongolia's grand khural passed a law subjecting the purchase by “state-owned entities” of controlling interest in strategic Mongolian mining enterprises to government approval (as well as a host of other key industries).

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1 Chalco Targeted as Mongolia Seeks to Limit State Deals, Bloomberg, May 17, 2012.

2 The 666,000 MNT will be distributed to elders and disabled civilians from next week, Info Mongolia, May 18, 2012.

3 Click here for the UB Post story.

4 Click here for a story by Info Mongolia.

5 Mongolia's Quest to Balance Human Development in its Booming Mineral-Based Economy, Brookings, January, 2012.

6 Chinese, Mongolian companies sign $250m coal deal, China Daily, Jul 29, 2011.