The Mineral Authority and the Ministry of Environment and Green Development jointly conducted an inspection among mining companies that operate in the field in Mongolia.

As result of the inspection conducted in territory of total 20 aimags it was revealed that a total of 22,752 hectares granted under special licenses have been mined.

Currently only 9100 hectares have had any remediation works and 4175 hectares of this had bioremediation done. Mining companies are supposed to carry out rehabilitation in the surrounding nature during mining activities.

But 4256 hectares of land has been damaged by mining activities and abandoned with no rehabilitation.

The Ministry of Mining is considering having the abandoned and damaged area rehabilitated by a qualified remediation company by raising 1 billion MNT from the Government budget. The process of rehabilitation will be run in stages.