The Government of Mongolia (GoM) is providing special licenses to explore natural resources. Under GoM Order 239, an area of 31.1 million hectares will be available for exploration.  Since 26^th January 2015, the GoM already has gathered a list of 2235 entities which have registered during the 23 online calls, of which, 1141 companies failed to apply at the required time. The remaining 1094 entities, which did come at the specified time, successfully submitted their applications. The GoM working team has taken the following steps regarding the licenses:

1. allow issuing licenses to 404 entities for exploration over a 2.4 million hectares area

2. rejected the provision of licenses to 260 entities

3. to continue checking and examining the remaining 809 companies, this being for a combination of reasons.