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Mongolian wrestler after winning a fight at the Naadam festival, South Gobi.
In an effort to regain investors’ confidence in Mongolia, its parliament approved Tuesday major changes to the country’s 2006 Minerals Law, and passed a new law on energy to help expand that sector.
The new minerals law, reports Bloomberg, expands the proportion of Mongolia’s area available to mining and exploration to 20% from roughly 8%, by lifting a 2010 ban on new licenses. The amendments include an extension to the exploration period, which will be now 12 years instead of nine.
The ruling also establishes a National Geological Survey as well as a Policy Council, in charge of legal changes in the mining industry.
Experts believe the central Asian nation may follow the reforms with an overturn to last year’s cancellation of more than 100 mining licenses.
Kincora Copper (CVE:KCC), one of 11 foreign investors whose mineral exploration licenses were revoked last year, said in April that Mongolia appeared to have made a “step change” in its approach to mining in recent weeks.
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2 Comments
Geo
Now how to rebuilt trust and how long it will take??? The damage is done…
Paul Corbett
Once you have scared the pigeons of Gandan Monastry, just you will need to spread a handful of wheat on the ground and the pigeons will return back almost immediately. Unlike the pigeons the investor will think for a while… perhaps months… some years…
Many people hope for the best; especially those who have been lost their jobs.
Mongolia does not have so much industries to give job opportunities to the their citizens this make the situation more critical for the unemployed