Gold Mine Impact On Mongolia

Uncontrolled Mine Industry – Dead penalty for Mongolia

Gold Programm – Yellow Epidemic Gold-Programm since 1992 in Mongolia:

- since 1992: 240 t gold (official info: 140 t)- 130 places in 18 (of 21) provinces are poisened-Dec.2009: 500 Licenses for Gold (230 companies)- 70% of Gold Companies don’t pay Taxes!-100.000 gold seeker worker (Ninja):30% of them are children and women

2003: we had 14.679 Rivers, Streams, Springs

2007: dryed up 1.530 or 20% 2009: about 35% dryed up  every year: many companies

using each 200 t of Cyanide

Politicians, their families Only 5-10 owner of all national gold mines Governers of 21 Provinces, 321 Sub-Provinces State servants: Police, Customer, Lawyers…Only 250 families are very richForeign mine companies: Ivanhoe

mines, Golden East (Russian), a lot of Canadian gold mines: Centera gold, Boroo gold, Goldman sachs…, a lot Chinese coal and gold mines...

80% of Mongolians are poor and very poor

but Official statistic: 36%35% jobless

Since April 2007 of 2300 inhabitants:- 65 dead (from Babies to Eldest), 40miscarieges- about 25 cancers: from 4 month old Babies to

70 year old man, 10 of them are dead- a lot of inhabitants have skin diseases- About 1500 dead animals June 2007: 843 sick persons of 1427 (WHO)June 2007: Arsenic 0.5 – 24.5 times moreSeptember 2009: Mercury in ground 4-10 times

more 2010: 50% of inhabitants already moved away.

Every Day:- 800 Trucks - each Truck: 90 – 130 t (standard 50 t)- 25-30 cm layers of dust around the coal street - Pollution: 5 times or much higher- Coal transport high way: along the border to

Great Gobi Nature protected area

Build the Network “Stop the gold production”: GOLD MINES AS REASON FOR CLIMATE WARMING

Network against the Law-Breaker-Governments

Lawyer-Network: d. against the Environment crimese. to protect the Human rights

Please sign the Letter “Save the Khongor Victims! Evacuation and Healing them!” to Mongolian President, Parliament, Government and to the UNO”

Please sign the Letter “Stop the Gold-Programm in Mongolia!”

Please sign the Letter to Mongolian Parliament and the President to become a member of Aarhus Convention!

Thank you for your Attention!

Mongolian Green Movement

2010 APGN