MONGOLIA EXPORTS 8 MILLION TON COAL IN FIRST FOUR MONTHS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ During this period, the nation exported 8.05 million ton of coal out of 35 million ton planned for this year. The amount of the coal exported had been increasing year after year, as the export that weighed at 5.1 million ton in 2008 escalated to 20.5 million ton in 2012. However, the amount has been on a decline since the last year, and specialists reached a consensus on the importance of the quality of the coal exported rather than its quantity. As a part of this effort, the produced in Tavan tolgoi deposit coal has began going through a washing process in a coal washing plant of "Energy Resources" before being exported to China. The washing plant with annual capacity of coal processing of 15 million ton washed 549 thousand ton of coal in the first four months of this year. Mongolia is planning to reach a coal exporting ability of 50 million ton by 2020.