Mongolia Mining Bets China Will Double Coal Imports

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-28/mongolian-mining-bets-china-will-double-coal-imports

Mongolia Mining Bets China Will Double Coal Imports

Mongolia Mining Corp. is betting there’s enough demand from China to support the construction of an $800 million railway that will double export capacity to the nation that counts Mongolia as its biggest coal supplier.

Expanding transportation links between the adjacent countries “will improve the position of Mongolia as the leading coking coal supplier to China,” Battsengel Gotov, chief executive officer of MMC, as the company is known, told reporters in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator.

Mongolia, the world’s fastest growing economy, overtook Australia as China’s biggest coking coal supplier last year, exporting 20 million metric tons of the raw material used to make steel. MMC is building a 250 kilometer (155 mile) rail to add 30 million tons of export capacity direct to China.

“There’s still room for everybody in Mongolia” to mine and sell commodities, Gotov said from the company’s head office

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1. What's the halflife

for an extractive economy of a small country whose only customer is China

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2. Speaking as a citizen of such a country

I'd say the half-live is similar to that of Polonium 210 (which, apropos of nothing, is 138.376 days).