Das wahre Gesicht der Mongolei?
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The Most Dangerous Coal Mine In The World: Mongolia's Illegal Nalaikh Pits
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“Authorities just cannot control it,” middleman Khashkhuu D. said with a grin on his face. He had just paid the usual 5,000-tugrik bribe to a police patrol that stopped his truck loaded with coal along the highway to Ulaanbataar. Khashkhuu fills up the truck at the mine for some 160,000 tugriks, and resells its load for around 300,000 in the city. The profit is equivalent to roughly $79.
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"Around 42 percent of the people here live below the poverty line, and the first thing that comes to their mind [to make money] is mining," the Nalaikh government's Tuyabaatar said. "They pay no taxes whatsoever, make 40,000 tugriks to 50,000 tugriks [$28] per day, and get the cash straightaway at the end of the working day.”
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Yet it is Nalaikh's “informal” coal that still heats up half of Ulaanbaatar during Mongolia's frigid winter. Though only a handful of the hundreds of mine shafts active in Nalaikh are legally authorized, that has not stopped scores of local miners from coming back, winter after winter.
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