Representatives
of over 200 mining enterprises attended a recent workshop in Bulgan province
where they discussed technical and biological reclamation of the mined area
once extraction is over. There have been frequent complaints that this
mandatory provision is followed mostly in the breach and the State Specialized
Inspection Agency (SIA) has recently tightened its monitoring of reclamation.

Participants
visited the reclamation site of the Ereen coal mine, 18 km north of Saikhan
soum. The workshop was organized by the SIA in collaboration with a German
organization, BGR, and Peabody Winsway Resources.