China approves $458m coal project in Inner Mongolia region

Coal mine in Hailar, Inner Mongolia, China. (Reference image by Herry Lawford, Wikimedia Commons)

China has approved a coal mine project worth 3.1 billion yuan ($458 million) in the country’s Inner Mongolia region, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Thursday.

The project has annual production capacity of 4 million tonnes a year, with phase one at 1.2 million tonnes and phase two at 2.8 million tonnes, the NEA said.

($1 = 6.7647 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(By Emily Chow; Editing by David Goodman)

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