Noyon Mountain taken under special protection

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Parliament ran the final reading of resolution of "Taking Certain Areas under State Special Protection" on February 4. With a 71 percent approval, the Noyon Mountain and its surroundings were taken under the protection. It means that 11 thousand hectares of the area fell under the category of natural reserves and 405 hectares--under the category of historic landscape. The protected area resides across Mandal soum of Selenge aimag and Bornuur and Batsumber soums of Tov (central) aimag, and is adjacent to Gatsuurt, a strategically important gold deposit. The Noyon Mountain stores in itself the tombs of Mongol nobles and other cultural findings dating back to the Hun Empire period. After this, the State Great Khural (parliament) considered the resolution on Designating the State Ownership of the Gatsuurt deposit. The resolution was wholly adopted, backed with 61.1 percent approval vote. Accordingly, the state ownership/share in the strategically important gold deposit “will be designated through negotiations between Mongolian government and the company, holding the mining permit over the deposit, in accordance with the Law on Mineral Resources”.