In this issue

From the Editor in Chief - A bank of dirt becomes a stone wall
Policy - “State must support private sector in implementing concession agreements”
Power Plant#5 will have two innovative features
Prime Minister Ch.Saikhanbileg’s speech at Parliament (19.12.2014)
MINING EVENTS 2015
Mongolian Mining News - Oyu Tolgoi 2015 production forecast cut
Darkhan Metallurgy commissions iron ore wet concentrate plant
Aspire’s Ovoot blend a premium coking coal for China
Sharyn Gol’s coal washing plant to be ready in Q1
Parts of speech - A copper discovery in progress
PERU cracks own, once more, on illegal gold miners
Inner Mongolia gets ready for life after coal
China has second thoughts on building coal-to-gas plants
Fumes choke fantasies at factory waste ponds
Neighbours - CHINA builds world’s largest facility to use coal mine methane to generate power
RUSSIAN miners find rock containing 30,000 diamonds
RUSSIAN potash mining destruction
CHINA to build world’s first deep-sea mining vessel
Is China the new coloniser in Africa?
CHINA’S spending splurge in SA mining confounds analysts
Mining World Mining - CANADA approves world’s largest copper-gold project
EU against labelling Canadian oil sands ‘dirty fuel’
RUSSIA plans big presence in Indonesia’s oil and mining sector
US Senate passes country’s largest copper mine
After iron ore, BHP and Rio move to dominate in copper
GLENCORE sees tighter coal market in near future
Mining companies seen as the Arctic’s best hope
Business and Life - Gold, glaciers and, wait, the jaguar, too

The Mongolian Mining Journal Magazine Description:

The Mongolian Mining Journal (MMJ), now eight years old, was the first bilingual journal to provide information on the Mongolian mining industry. At present, the MMJ is regularly mentioned at investors" conferences as the first source of Mongolian mining and economic news.

The journal also brings to readers information on mining events and conferences from all over the world. Apart from news and interviews with policy makers and those in the news, every issue of the MMJ carries pieces giving the background to political and economic developments and analyzing their likely impact on the mining sector. The MMJ always seeks the views of professional experts, lawyers, academics, foreign observers and research companies so that all reports are accurate and give divergent views.

Issues of the MMJ reach international readers, individual and corporate, through Dow Jones" Factiva channel. MMJ publications and broadcasting programs can be accessed at www.en.mongolianminingjournal.com.

The Mongolian Mining Journal is committed to independent journalism and does not seek favours from any company, politician or foreign investor. Our first issue came out at a time of hardship for the Mongolian economy. Now the country’s development trajectory is irreversible, and so is that of our growth.