Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine
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The Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine is a mining and dressing plant in the Sükhbaatar
Sükhbaatar, Sükhbaatar
Sükhbaatar is a sum of Sükhbaatar Province in eastern Mongolia. The Tömörtiin Ovoo Zinc Mine is 40 km W from the sum center.Sükhbaatar Province capital Baruun-Urt is a small enclave at SW part of the Sükhbaatar sum, 50 km from the sum center....

 sum (district) of Sükhbaatar Province in eastern Mongolia
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

. This mine is 40 km W from the sum center and 13 km N from the province capital Baruun-Urt
Baruun-Urt
Baruun-Urt is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km²...

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It was officially put into production on August 28, 2005, with 300,000 tons ore dressed and 80,000 tons zinc concentrate produced per year.
Zinc concentrate is transported from the mining site to the transfer railway station Sainshand and exported via the Trans-Mongolian Railway
Trans-Mongolian Railway
The Trans-Mongolian Railway connects Ulan-Ude, on the Trans-Baikal railway in Russia, with the Chinese city of Jining, by way of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia....

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It was calculated in 1980 that the deposit possesses 70,572,290 tons of ore with an average grade of 13.67% of zinc by B+C reserve category which is equivalent to 1,034,860 tons of metallic zinc.
In 1997 the Mongolian company Metallimpex LLC and China-based NFC entered into a Cooperation Agreement to jointly mine the deposit and established Tsairt Mineral LLC, a Mongol-Chinese Joint Venture.

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