The Sharyn Gol Coal Mine () is a

coal mine Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

in Sharyngol District,

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Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

History

The area was firstly explored and drilled in 1958. In 1965, the mine began to be extracted with

open-pit mining Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially ...

technique. In 2005, the company began underground mining exploration and development.

Geology

The mine deposit spans over an area of 4.5 km². The highest elevation of the deposit is 975 meters above sea level and the lowest elevation is 790 meters. The reserve is estimated to be about 32 million tons below 250 meters from the surface for open-pit mining with

stripping ratio In surface mining, stripping ratio or strip ratio refers to the amount of waste (or overburden) that must be removed to release a given ore quantity. It is a number or ratio that express how much waste is mined per unit of ore. The units of a stripp ...

of 10.

References

1965 establishments in Mongolia Coal mines in Mongolia Sharyngol {{Mongolia-mine-stub

History

Geology

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