Mongolia is a state that is located in Central Asia. This mountainous country is located on a plateau that is raised 1000-1500 m above sea level. The relief features and minerals of Mongolia ensure its success in the foreign market. Over the plateau are mountain ranges - the Mongolian and Gobi Altai. Also, spurs of the East Sayan, Hangai, Khentei and other mountain ranges enter the territory of the state.
The geological structure of Mongolia is distributed over all age complexes of rocks, from the Archean and Proterozoic to the Quaternary sediments of the Cenozoic era. It is thanks to the relief and structure that the minerals of Mongolia were formed.
This state takes the 3rd place in the number of all explored deposits in Asia. What minerals are mined in its territory in large quantities? This will be considered in this article.
Often mined minerals
The most common natural resources of the region are gold, coal, copper, iron, silver ores, asbestos, graphite, and ornamental stones. Numerous mineral water deposits are found. In recent years, work has been carried out to explore new oil fields, the relief of Mongolia allows you to open more and more places of production.
Gold
The largest gold deposit is Oyu Tolgoi. Over the past 20 years, metal production in this deposit has amounted to 180 tons. The deposits are located in a complex and single, it is believed that many of them have not yet been explored.
Coal
Minerals of Mongolia are represented in large quantities by coal deposits. Its reserves, according to experts, amount to 27 billion tons. The most common layers of coal, but there is also a brown appearance. The deposits of the first are mainly concentrated in the southern and western regions of Mongolia. Brown coal is mined in the eastern and central parts of the country.
Ore
Large deposits of uranium ore are concentrated in the northeast of the state. There are about 100 deposits. Mongolia ranks 15th in the world in terms of uranium reserves. New deposits are still being explored. Scientists are sure that there are many more in this area.
There are large reserves of copper ores. They are concentrated in two large deposits - Tsagansuburg and Erdenituin-Obo. Deposits of tin ores are numerous. But they are represented by single deposits, which are located throughout the country. Silver ores are mined in the Mongolian Altai.
These are the minerals of Mongolia. And this, in turn, allows you to earn a fairly large amount of funds for the state budget.
Raw materials
Mining and chemical raw materials are represented by deposits of soda, phosphorites, rock salt. Industrial-mineral species - reserves of fluorite (leading places in the world), gypsum, graphite, magnesite, asbestos.
Almandine, chrysolite, amethyst, chalcedony, agate, and jade are found among jewelry and ornamental stones.
Water
The minerals of Mongolia attract tourists because their "golden" representative is fresh water. It is she - the wealth of this state. More than 3 thousand fresh lakes, numerous sources of mineral waters (arshans). All of them vary in composition. There are cold carbonate, cold radon, bicarbonate and sodium-calcium waters.