From the Editor
12 Government policy and State
policy
Deposits of Strategic Importance
88 Asgat gets a new owner but is it
ready to be mined?
MINE
91 MMHI: Six new mines to begin
operations in 2019
Policy and Polity
94 “Large projects should
progress with no political
interference”
100 Programme to boost growth of
heavy industry
104 Lack of funds holds back
essential studies in mining
Mine map
108 Agreement with OT a big
boost to TT power plant
project
Beautiful minds of mongolia
Analysing the analytics
112 Lessons learned from recent
IPOs
Statistics
117 Foreign trade up in 2018,
but surplus falls
News briefs
118 OT exceeds annual copper
and gold production guidance
118 MMC posts y-o-y increase in
extraction, processing, sales
118 Aspire to benefit from China’s
need for “fat” coking coal
118 First FESCO Yiwu-Moscow
container train goes via
Mongolia