Ulaanbaatar
Cabinet meeting in brief
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ - The Government approved a regulation on issuing license to use mining dumps, and a regulation on running activities using mining dumps and requirements to the activities. Mining companies make dumps during mining process by displacing the waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction of an ore, in the mining field.
Those wastes are left without complete rehabilitation as they can be used in future. However, it negatively affects the environment and last year, the parliament made amendments to relevant laws to reuse mining dumps.
- A total of MNT806 million will be spent from the state budget for international sports competitions and games to host in the country. These include championships of Asia and South Asia, international games and competitions of children, youth and adults in sports of chess, free wrestling, boxing, volleyball, badminton, soft tennis and aerobic.
- A guideline of Mongolian representatives to adhere to in the 7th roundtable meeting of Mongolia and Canada to be held in Ottawa on March 9, was approved. During the roundtable meeting, the sides will discuss the two countries’ cooperation in all fields including politics, economy, investment, trade, mining, construction, infrastructure, agriculture, education, culture, defense and humanity and exchange views develop ties in possible areas.
