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Social and economic contribution of mining sector
The mining sector accounted for approximately 20% of Mongolia’s 2016 GDP and 71% (worth 7 trillion
MNT) of the Gross Industrial Output in 2016.
 Economic Impact of Mining Industry
100
92 89.5 90.7
87.8

75
67.1 68.2 68.7
62.1 60.7
Percent

50

32.3
25 21.5 19.3 16.4 14.9 16.5

0
"2010" "2011" "2012" "2013" "2014"

Percenntage in GDP Percentage in GIO Percentage in Ex

Mining exports account for US$ 4.3 billion, making up 87.8% of national export products in 2016.

Statistics on mineral production

This section covers the production of key mineral products of Mongolia.

Mining Production

2017.I-
Product Unit 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
VI

Gold tons 4.4 4.3 7.2 7.5 12.6 15.4 6.7

Copper
th.tons 516.1 1252.1 1334.2 1365.4 1346.2 1399.7 723.6
concentrate

Molybdenum
th.tons 3.15 3.93 3.67 4.05 5.53 5.05 2.96
concentrate

Zinc concentrate th.tons 105.8 118.0 103.5 93.1 89.6 117.4 56.5

Iron ore th.tons 4663.3 6382.1 6793.3 7557.8 6061.2 5083.0 2464.0
 Acidspar мян.тн 50.8 98.8 57.2 61.0 51.6 80.0  

Metspar мян.тн 200.2 278.1 82.0 117.6 55.8 100.0 67.3

Tungsten
th.tons 0.20 0.13 0.53 1.08 0.68 1.42 0.14
concentrate

Tin concentrate tons 54.8 98.6 16.5 99.8 82.3 50.2  

Coal

Mongolia had registered coal reserves of 37.4 billion tons as of December 31st, 2016 and 171 entities
are holding 296 coal mining licenses. In rst half of 2017, coal production in Mongolia reached 26
million tons, 22 million tons were sold and 19 million tons were exported. Coal production is expected
to increase from 2016.

Coal production, sales and export /thousand ton

40k

33 340.5
30k
27 305
26 076.2
24 449.3 24 146.1
19 513
20k 18 188.3
14 467.5

10k

0
2013 2014 2015

Production Sales Export

Taxes and fees paid by mining sector to both local and

national governments and environmental rehabilitation
status
Businesses licensed for mineral extraction paid 638.7 billion MNT in tax to national and local
governments in 2016.

Paid tax of Mining sector by mineral

Copper concentrate producers paid MNT 415.8 billion MNT in tax, coal producers paid 114.2 billion
MNT and gold producers paid 40.3 billion MNT, to central and local governments.   In addition
operational mining companies paid 224 billion MNT in royalties and 213.7 billion MNT in corporate
income tax in 2016. 
Businesses licensed for mineral extration paid 638.7 billion MNT in tax to national and loca

Vehicle tax - 0.2%

PIT - 0.6%

CIT - 34% Royality

Land fee - 1.7%

Air Pollution fee - 2.3%
Property tax - 2.5%
Social Insurance
VAT - 2.9%
Water fee - 5% Other - 7%

Paid tax of Mining sector by tax type

Businesses licensed for mineral extration paid 638.7 billion MNT in tax to national and loca

zinc - 4.6%
gold - 6.3%

coal - 17.9%
molybdenium - 0%
uranium - 0.1%
other - 0.1%
tungsten - 0.1%
tin - 0.2%
crude oil - 0.6%
flourite - 0.7%
copp
lead - 0.8%
construction material - 1.2%
iron ore - 2.2%
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