If moving up in the world means graduating from high school in Merritt and landing a high profile mining job in Mongolia, consider Bradley Bennett a perfect example.
After sitting in the front row of the Merritt Secondary School graduating class on a warm June day at the de-iced Nicola Valley Memorial Arena a few months ago, the 56-year-old heavy duty mechanic is now s
Mongolia is seen as the world’s least attractive jurisdiction for mineral exploration and development, according to the survey released today by the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank.
The updated survey of international mining executives was conducted between June 1 and June 30.
Half of all Mongolia's livestock could be dead by spring -- victims of a drought-freeze punch known as a dzud. How could grassland conservation help herders cope with such climate-change intensified phenomena?
Evan Girvetz, Cool Green Science Blog describes the root causes for this particularly devastating dzud and suggests some ecosystem-based solutions to help make the livelihoo
In a country where livestock outnumber people by an order of 16 to one, animal welfare is no small matter. In Mongolia this year the animals are not faring well at all, and the 2.8m human inhabitants are feeling their pain. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolians depend directly upon animals for their own livelihood.
The immediate cause of everyone’s distress is an untoward sequence
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chinalco, seeks to develop more global strategic partnerships in the mining sector, and is currently in talks with Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd. about the joint development of a massive copper and gold mine in Mongolia, Executive Director Liu Xiangmin said Tuesday.
Liu's comments followed by one day comments m
SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chinalco, seeks to develop more global strategic partnerships in the mining sector, and is currently in talks with Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd. about the joint development of a massive copper and gold mine in Mongolia, Executive Director Liu Xiangmin said Tuesday.
Liu's comments followed by one day comments m
Vote Now to Send Your Favorite Storybook to Students at Khishig-Undur School, Mongolia
The first-year English students at Khishig-Undur School are motivated and smart but they lack one thing we often take for granted: books. So Books for Asia delivered what was needed, and helped Mongolia's next generation prepare for the future.
Books for Asia has been changin
According to the Ministry of Health, as of 10am, November 6th, there were 715 confirmed cases of people infected with A/H1N1 virus registered in Ulaanbaatar and 195 in the 17 provinces.
There were 51 patients being treated at the National Center for Infectious Diseases, from which 24 were still waiting for lab test results.
By Friday, the death toll of the virus had risen
