Socks for Happy People has partnered with the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation to start a Buy One, Give One Free initiative to help give warm socks to children living in Mongolia.
SouthGobi Resources Ltd., the coal miner backed by China’s sovereign wealth fund, halted plans to build a rail link between its pit in southern Mongolia and the Chinese border because of uncertainty over government policy.
”The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January–April period was the warmest January-April period on record. This value is 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average.
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Itochu Corp., Japan’s fourth-largest trading company, invested in Winsway Coking Coal Holdings Ltd. to secure coal from Mongolia, stepping up competition with China and Russia for the steelmaking ingredient as prices jump
DUNDGOBI, Mongolia - The winter camps of southern Mongolia are quiet during this year’s breeding season, after an unusually harsh winter wiped out herds and left nomadic families with little but debt to their name.
Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY OTC: PCYRF Frankfurt: 1P2) announced today that it has entered into a Mine Services Agreement with Leighton Asia Limited for the infrastructure establishment, equipment leasing, and mining operation at the Ulaan Ovoo coal deposit in northern Mongolia.
Ivanhoe forecast the mine’s average annual production at 1.2 billion pounds of copper (544,000 tonnes) and 650,000 ounces of gold in its first 10 years, with operations set to begin in 2013.
Thomas Balmes is a French documentary filmmaker who has made a few little-seen works of cultural anthropology – the conversion of Papua New Guinea natives to Christianity, Finns seeing how their outsourced cellphones are manufactured in China.
Mongolia on Wednesday voiced its strong belief that ”every country could and should make its contribution to promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation.”
