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Ulaan Ovoo Coal Mine (Улаан-Овоо) is a mothballed coal mine in Tüshig, Selenge, Mongolia.
Location
Table 1: Project-level location details
| Mine Name | Location | Coordinates (WGS 84) |
|---|---|---|
| Ulaan Ovoo Coal Mine | Tüshig, Tüshig, Selenge, Mongolia | 50.317778, 104.973611 (exact) |
The map below shows the exact location of the coal mine:
Project Details
Table 2: Project status
| Status | Status Detail | Opening Year | Closing Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mothballed[1] | – | 2010 | 2039 (planned)[2] |
Table 3: Operation details
| Capacity (Mtpa) | Production (Mtpa) | Year of Production | Mine Type | Mining Method | Mine Size (km2) | Mine Depth (m) | Workforce Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3[3] | – | – | Surface | Open Pit | – | 60* | * |
Table 4: Coal resources and destination
| Total Reserves (Mt) | Year of Total Reserves Recorded | Total Resources (Mt) | Coalfield | Coal Type | Coal Grade | Primary Consumer/ Destination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174 | – | – | – | Bituminous | Thermal | Darkhan power station |
Table 5: Ownership and parent company
| Owner | Parent Company | Headquarters |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Elephant Mining Corp | Silver Elephant Mining Corporation | Canada |
Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset.
Background
The Ulaan Ovoo Coal Mine is an operating surface coal mine in Tüshig, Mongolia. The Ulaan Ovoo mine is an open-cut coal mine in Mongolia owned by Prophecy Coal Corp., a Canadian mining company.[4]
According to the website of mine owner Prophecy Coal, "Exploration drilling work was performed on the deposit during the late 1970s by the Mongolian Ministry of Geology and Energy and again from 1993-1997 by Erdenet, a Mongolian-Russian joint venture mining and processing company."[4]
In 2006, Red Hill (predecessor to Prophecy) estimated the mine area had 174 million tonnes of measured resources, 34 million tonnes of indicated category, and 36 million tonnes of inferred. Production began in 2010. The coal is trucked 120km to to the Sukhbaatar rail siding, which is then is transported by rail to Russian and Mongolian customers.[4][5]
- Operator: Mega Thermal Coal Corp.[6]
- Owner: Silver Elephant Mining Corp.
- Location: Tüshig, Tüshig District, Selenge Province, Mongolia
- GPS Coordinates: 50.317778, 104.973611 (exact)
- Mine Status: Operating
- Production: 0.36 million tonnes per annum[7]
- Total Resource:
- Mineable Reserves: 174 MT
- Coal Type: Bituminous
- Mine Size: 790 hectares[8]
- Mine Type: Surface
- Start Year: 2019
- Life of Mine: 18 years[8]
- Source of Financing:
Production
Prophecy produced approximately 500,000 tons of coal between 2012 and 2014 from the mine before putting the mine on standby. The company made deliveries from the mine between 2016 and 2017 to select customers. An undisclosed lessee company entered a lease agreement with Prophecy in October 2018 to operate the mine, which is valid for three years. Mining activity was resumed at the site in March 2019, following the signing of the agreement.[8] However, operations at the mine briefly stopped in April and May due to the late approval of the environmental plan, which wasn't issued until June 2019.[9]
Mine ownership
The mine was owned by Mongolia Mid Asia International (MMAI) until 2005, followed by Red Hill until 2010. Prophecy Development Corporation assumed 100% ownership of the project in 2010.[8]
In March 2020, Prophecy Coal renamed itself Silver Elephant Mining Corp.[10][6]
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ (PDF) https://www.silverelef.com/pdf/ELEF-Q5-2023-FS-FINAL-SEDAR.pdf https://miningdataonline.com/property/4554/Ulaan-Ovoo-Mine.aspx; https://www.silverelef.com/pdf/ELEF-Q5-2023-FS-FINAL-SEDAR.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://miningdataonline.com/property/4554/Ulaan-Ovoo-Mine.aspx.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://pubs.usgs.gov/myb/vol3/2019/myb3-2019-mongolia.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Prophecy Coal Corp., "Ulaan Ovoo (Coal Mongolia)", Prophecy Coal website, accessed September 2020
- ↑ "Strategy on strategic mineral missing," Mongolia Mining Journal, 2012-09-27
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Silver Elephant Mining Corp. website, accessed Apr. 2021.
- ↑ "Silver Elephant’s Mega Coal Subsidiary Prepares for Mongolia Coal Production in Q4 2022", Mega Thermal Coal, June 21, 2022.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Ulaan Ovoo Coal Project," Mining Technology, accessed Sep 2020
- ↑ "Prophecy’s Ulaan Ovoo Achieves Record Monthly Coal Production 37,800 tonnes in Mongolia", Silver Elephant Mining Corp, July 9, 2019.
- ↑ Silver Elephant Mining Corp.: Name Change Complete from Prophecy. "ELEF" Commences Trading on TSX on March 19, 2020, Yahoo! Finance, 18 Mar. 2020.
