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Key resources moves by Mongolia since 1990
May 2009 - Russian mining company Altan Dornod Mongol sues the Mongolian government for USD1 billion at the Frankfurt Court of International Arbitration, saying the windfall tax violates international law.
May 2009 - Russian mining company Altan Dornod Mongol sues the Mongolian government for USD1 billion at the Frankfurt Court of International Arbitration, saying the windfall tax violates international law.
July 2009 - Mongolia establishes Nuclear Energy Law, stipulating that 51 percent of Mongolia's uranium deposits must be held by the state. The Great Hural also approves a resolution authorising the government to settle the Oyu Tolgoi project with Ivanhoe and Rio Tinto.
August 2009 - The Mongolian parliament finally repeals the 68 percent windfall profit tax, effective from Jan. 1, 2011, paving the way for a final agreement on Oyu Tolgoi.
October 2009 - The Mongolian government finally signed off on a deal with Ivanhoe and Rio Tinto to develop Oyu Tolgoi after six years of negotiations. The project is expected to boost world copper supplies by 2 percent.
Oct 2009 - Mongolia establishes state-owned nuclear firm MonAtom, which immediately embarks on talks with foreign nuclear firms, including CNNC, on setting up uranium joint ventures in Mongolia.
Oct 2009 - China's biggest oil firm, the China National Petroleum Corporation, plans to spend USD500 million to drill in Mongolia, government officials say.
Oct 2009 - China's sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corp, invests USD500 million in South Gobi Energy Resources SGQ.V to further develop coal projects in Mongolia, including Ovoot Tolgoi, which is expected to produce 8 million tonnes of coal a year within three to five years. CIC also revealed plans to invest USD700 million in Iron Mining International, the owner and operator of a Mongolian iron ore mine.
Feb 2010 - Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatariin Batbold says the government is planning to cancel an auction for a USD2 billion stake in the world's largest untapped coking coal mine at Tavan Tolgoi, which had attracted the attention of BHP Billiton, Jindal, Vale, Peabody, China's Shenhua as well as a number of consortia from South Korea, Japan and Russia.
March 2010 - China's leading coal producer, Shenhua Group, says it is still bidding to invest in Tavan Tolgoi. [ID:nTOE62F01Q] (Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
