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Asia Gold-High prices: Regional physical demand is patchy www.news.mn

In February, The Bank of Mongolia (BoM) purchased 795.3 kg, raising the BoM’s total precious metal purchase of 2022 to 2.4 tons. The figure shows an increase of 464.6 kg as compared with the same period of the previous year. The average price of BoM’s purchase of 1 gram of gold is MNT 180,905 this month.
In China, discounts widened to between $4 and $6 an ounce over global benchmark spot rates from $2 to $4 the previous week.
In Hong Kong, gold was sold at anywhere between on par with the benchmark rates to $4 discounts, versus $3 discounts last week.
Indian gold prices jumped to 55,558 rupees per 10 grams earlier this month, not far from the all-time high of 56,191 rupees hit in August 2020.
Regional physical demand is patchy, given the COVID-19 situation in China and the massive discounts in India and there is no question that the physical demand in Europe and Asia that propped the market up has weakened, said independent analyst Ross Norman.
But demand from institutional buyers continues to be robust, Norman said. Gold in Singapore, meanwhile, continued to trade at premiums of about $1-1.80 an ounce. While businesses and retail investors have started purchasing gold as prices pull back from recent highs, “we’ve seen a lot more selling” since prices are still comparatively elevated,” said Brian Lan, managing director at dealer GoldSilver Central.
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If you build it, they will come: Infrastructure is crucial to Mongolia’s tourism growth www.news.mn

With a unique value proposition to tourists, Mongolia’s tourism sector has substantial growth potential, but faces key constraints in air transport and sector coordination, according to the World Bank’s new study on Mongolia’s tourism sector. The study, entitled Fostering Inclusive Tourism Development in the Aftermath of COVID-19, analyzes the performance of the Mongolian tourism sector, its regulatory environment, and policy options based on a data-driven economic modeling approach.
“Mongolia’s tourism sector has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its full potential is yet to unfold. The country has an abundance of strong niche products for leisure tourism linked to its diverse nature, nomadic lifestyle, culture, and historical legacy,” – said Andrei Mikhnev, World Bank Country Manager for Mongolia. “This new study aims to help the government identify policy priorities for a more inclusive and sustainable tourism sector.”
Tourism is an important contributor to Mongolia’s economy and accounted for 7.2% of GDP, 6.8% of total exports, and 7.6% of total employment in 2019, which was the best year ever, before collapsing in 2020 due to COVID-19. Relative to comparators in Eurasia as well as to countries outside of Eurasia with similar geographic features and/or tourism offerings, Mongolia has been losing market share over the last decade. However, leisure tourism has continued to expand while business travel has declined. Leisure tourists spent less time in Mongolia comparing with similar tourist markets.
The government aims to develop sustainable and inclusive tourism and make Mongolia “the international destination for nomadic culture and tourism”. This may require prioritizing segments and markets with highest value potential before increasing the number of foreign tourist arrivals, the report points out.
The lack of resources allocated for infrastructure development and a protectionist aviation policy impede sector development, according to the enterprise survey of tourism companies conducted in the beginning of 2021. Furthermore, the tourism industry representatives acknowledged policy and sector coordination issues to be among the top issues facing the sector, including the lack of centralized marketing support, national tourism policy implementation, and coordination.
Mongolia’s tourism sector has suffered a loss of MNT 1.5 trillion due to COVID-19 with around 1,600 companies and 88,000 jobs put in risk.
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Mongolia's forex reserves drop to 4.3 bln USD www.xinhuanet.com

March 22 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's foreign-exchange reserves fell to 4.3 billion U.S. dollars as of Tuesday, down 2 million dollars from the beginning of this year, according to the country's central bank.
The decrease shows that imports have exceeded exports, Byadran Lkhagvasuren, governor of the Bank of Mongolia, said at a press conference.
Mongolia's imports have increased by more than 40 percent since the start of this year, Lkhagvasuren said, adding that COVID-19 restrictions have prevented the country from exporting much of its coal, its main export product, despite the high prices of raw materials in the world market.
Therefore, the balance of payments was in deficit and foreign exchange reserves declined.
According to Lkhagvasuren, the central bank could propose restricting imports of luxury goods.
Mongolia has spent 1.37 billion U.S. dollars on imports since the beginning of this year, with almost half on luxury cars, according to the bank.
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Revenue from railway transport decreased by 25.3 percent www.montsame.mn

In the first 2 months of 2022, 3943.2 thousand tons of freight were carried by railway transport, showing a decrease of 1217.8 (23.6 percent) thousand tons compared to the same period of previous year. This decrease was mainly due to 894.3 (50.2 percent) thousand tons decrease in export freight and 150.8 (7.1 percent) thousand tons decrease in domestic freight.
In February 2022, 1964.1 thousand tons of freight were carried by railway transport and decreased by 15.1 (0.8 percent) thousand tons compared to the previous month. This decrease was mainly due to 222.8 (19.1 percent) thousand tons in decrease coal and 24.8 (79.1 percent) thousand tons decrease in oil and petroleum products. In addition, 111.6 thousand passengers (in repeated counting) carried by railway transport and increased by 0.8 (0.8 percent) thousand tons compared to the previous month.
In the first 2 months of 2022, the revenue from railway transport reached MNT 91.1 billion, decreased by MNT 30.7 (25.2 percent) billion compared to the same period of previous year. This decrease was mainly due to decreases in the transportation of flours and spar concentrates and molybdenum concentrates and Iron ore.
In February 2022, the revenue from rail transport reached MNT 47.2 billion, increased by MNT 3.4 (7.6 percent) billion compared to the previous month.
Source: National Statistics Office
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Spiking fertilizer prices spark fears of global hunger www.rt.com

The latest sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus have sent global prices for fertilizer soaring to an all-time high. The two countries are major exporters of potash, critical for the global agriculture industry, which is already reeling from pandemic-related disruptions.
Last week, fertilizer prices surged nearly 10% versus the previous week, according to Green Markets North America Fertilizer Price Index, the highest price point ever recorded. The index shows current prices are 40% higher than a month ago, before Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began.
According to CRU, a UK-based commodity consultancy, prices for raw materials that make up the crop nutrient commodity market, such as ammonia, nitrogen, potash, urea, phosphates, sulphates and nitrates, saw a 30% surge since the beginning of the year, topping the levels reached during the 2008 financial crisis.
Russia and Belarus are major exporters of several critical fertilizing compounds, including urea and potash.
Nola urea is trading at a 34-year high of $880 per US ton compared to $182 recorded in 2020. Prices are up 60% since the West imposed sanctions against the two countries.
Spiking prices for fertilizers have also been exacerbated by higher costs for natural gas, a vital feedstock in producing nitrogen-based fertilizer. Energy prices have been soaring amid EU plans to cut reliance on Russian oil and gas supplies and bans imposed by the US and a couple of other countries.
The situation is also being aggravated by China’s ban on fertilizer exports, primarily nitrogen and phosphate. The measure, which expires in June, was implemented to limit the rise in domestic food prices.
Moreover, a labor dispute at Canadian Pacific Railways is expected to worsen shortages, putting additional pressure on the global logistic chains. Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer producer, said it could weather a freight shutdown lasting a few days but a longer shutdown would force it to consider slowing potash production.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization previously warned that “acute food insecurity” was plaguing dozens of countries spanning Latin America, central Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia due to conflict and erratic environmental conditions.
“Ukraine has only compounded a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe,” David M. Beasley, executive director of the UN World Food Program, told The New York Times earlier this week, adding that the current levels of food insecurity have not been seen since World War II.
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Rio Tinto, Lion Copper and Gold sign deal to advance exploration at Nevada copper assets www.mining.com

Lion Copper and Gold (TSXV: LEO) announced Monday it has entered into an Option to Earn-in Agreement with Rio Tinto America to advance studies and exploration at Lion CG’s copper assets in Mason Valley, Nevada.
Under the agreement, Rio Tinto has the option to earn a 65% interest in the assets, comprising 34,494 acres of land, including the historic Yerington mine, greenfield MacArthur Project, Wassuk property, the Bear deposit, associated water rights and approximately 20 exploration targets dispersed across the company’s land package.
At the site, Rio Tinto will evaluate the potential commercial deployment of its Nuton technologies, which offer copper heap leaching technologies developed to deliver increased copper recovery from mined ore and access new sources of copper such as low-grade sulphide resources and reprocessing of stockpiles and mineralised waste.
The technologies have the potential to deliver leading environmental performance through more efficient water usage, lower carbon emissions, and the ability to reclaim mine sites by reprocessing waste, the company said.
“The agreement offers the potential to both increase the scope and scale of our development and accelerate the path to first production,” Lion CG CEO, Travis Naugle said in a media statement.
“As stewards of significant copper resources and water rights in the State of Nevada, we recognize our role in a sustainable and circular economy,” he said. “Should Rio Tinto exercise its earn-in option, we are confident that it will bring its own level of quality to progress the development of the Mining Assets towards becoming a strategic domestic copper producer with the highest ESG standards and performance.”
We look forward to continuing to advance the MacArthur Project and our other Mason Valley assets through constructive relationships with Rio Tinto, the local community, Native American Tribes, the State of Nevada and other valued stakeholders.”
In addition to advancing the MacArthur Copper Project on the basis of the recently-announced mineral resource estimate, LCG also intends to focus on resource growth by evaluating an integrated approach to expansion across the company’s asset base and land package.
Higher copper recoveries
The Nuton technology, it said, offers the potential to economically unlock low-grade sulphide resources, copper bearing waste and tailings, and achieve higher copper recoveries on oxide and transitional material, allowing for a significantly increased copper production outcome with a very low corresponding carbon footprint.
“This Agreement will allow us to explore the potential commercial deployment of our Nutoncopper leaching technologies in a historical mining district with a large copper endowment,” Rio Tinto copper chief executive Bold Baatar said. “These technologies not only offer Rio Tinto the potential to unlock additional copper, but to also deliver low carbon production with significant environmental benefits through reprocessing old stockpiles and tailings and reducing waste from new and ongoing operations.”
Rio Tinto will pay up to $4 million for an exclusive earn-in option and agreed-upon Mason Valley study and evaluation works to be completed by Lion CG no later than December 31, 2022.
LCG’s stock was up 18.75% on the news in mid-afternoon trading on the CVE. The company has a C$26.5 million market capitalization.
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Today marks 41st anniversary of Mongolia’s first space flight www.montsame.mn

Today marks the 41st anniversary of the first space flight by a Mongolian. On this day in 1981, Hero of Mongolian People’s Republic, Hero of USSR Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa along with twice Hero of USSR, Hero of Mongolian People’s Republic, Soviet cosmonaut V.A.Dzhanibekov flew into space on the Soyuz 39 spacecraft, landing back on Earth at 7.42 pm on March 30.
With this event, Mongolia became the 10th country in the world to send off a cosmonaut into space, and Mongolian cosmonaut J.Gurragchaa became the 2nd person in Asia, and the 101st person in the world to fly into space.
While in orbit, 25 types of 36 experiments and research works were carried out in the fields of medical care and biology, physics and technology, and remote sensing, which laid out the foundations for the development of space science in Mongolia.
Incidentally, a MONTSAME team of seven comprised of columnists, reporters, and photographers covered the events related the flights between 1978 and 1981 and took over 60 percent of all photographs of the space flights in Mongolia, especially those in the archives.
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Mongolia logs 46 new COVID-19 cases www.xinhuanet.com

March 22 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's COVID-19 tally rose to 468,700 after 46 new local infections were recorded over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, no new deaths were reported in the past day, and the country's COVID-19 death toll remains at 2,108, the ministry said.
So far, 66.8 percent of the country's total population of 3.4 million has received two COVID-19 vaccine doses, 1,030,410 people have received a third dose, and 112,360 have received a fourth dose voluntarily.
Mongolians have basically returned to normal daily life due to high vaccination coverage and declining daily infections. Notably, the Asian country has resumed in-person classes for all levels of educational institutions and fully opened its borders to foreign tourists, who will not be required to have a PCR test or to quarantine.
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Mongolia eases entry requirements – What travelers should know www.news.mn

One more country has joined the worldwide clamor to remove entry requirements in the past few days, with Mongolia now completely removing its entry rules for travelers.
In doing so, Mongolia – located in Asia – has become the 17th country around the world to remove Covid-19 related restrictions, and return to ‘normal’.
Compared to last year, 2022 has been a much brighter one for travelers, with a growing number of worldwide destinations taking steps to make it much easier for travelers to visit once again.
Located between Russia and China, Mongolia is a melting pot of culture and history that travelers heading to the country can experience at every corner of its vast expanse – and it’s suddenly become extremely easy for travelers to be able to enter.
Mongolia has now joined the ever-growing list of countries to completely remove their Covid-19 related entry requirements, making visiting the country a much more affordable and attractive proposition.
Mongolia’s government updated its entry requirements for foreign travelers on 14 March 2022, with the new rules coming to effect from that date.
The update now means that all travelers, regardless of age, vaccination status, or country of departure, will no longer have to take a PCR or rapid test to enter Mongolia – nor will they have to test upon arrival or go into quarantine or self-isolation.
The update comes just a few weeks after the country opened for the first time in two years. Of course, travelers may still have to jump through some hoops in order to visit. American travelers don’t need a visit in order to visit for less than 90 days, whilst Canadians can stay visa-free in Mongolia for up to 30 days.
Flights may also be longer than usual given the restrictions over Russian airspace as a result of their invasion of Ukraine.
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Air Transport Among the Top Obstacles for Mongolia’s Tourism Sector www.moderndiplomacy.eu

With a unique value proposition to tourists, Mongolia’s tourism sector has substantial growth potential, but faces key constraints in air transport and sector coordination, according to the World Bank’s new study on Mongolia’s tourism sector.
The study, entitled Fostering Inclusive Tourism Development in the Aftermath of COVID-19, analyzes the performance of the Mongolian tourism sector, its regulatory environment, and policy options based on a data-driven economic modeling approach.
“Mongolia’s tourism sector has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its full potential is yet to unfold. The country has an abundance of strong niche products for leisure tourism linked to its diverse nature, nomadic lifestyle, culture, and historical legacy,” – said Andrei Mikhnev, World Bank Country Manager for Mongolia. “This new study aims to help the government identify policy priorities for a more inclusive and sustainable tourism sector.”
Tourism is an important contributor to Mongolia’s economy and accounted for 7.2% of GDP, 6.8% of total exports, and 7.6% of total employment in 2019, which was the best year ever, before collapsing in 2020 due to COVID-19. Relative to comparators in Eurasia as well as to countries outside of Eurasia with similar geographic features and/or tourism offerings, Mongolia has been losing market share over the last decade. However, leisure tourism has continued to expand while business travel has declined. Leisure tourists spent less time in Mongolia comparing with similar tourist markets.
The government aims to develop sustainable and inclusive tourism and make Mongolia “the international destination for nomadic culture and tourism”. This may require prioritizing segments and markets with highest value potential before increasing the number of foreign tourist arrivals, the report points out.
The lack of resources allocated for infrastructure development and a protectionist aviation policy impede sector development, according to the enterprise survey of tourism companies conducted in the beginning of 2021. Furthermore, the tourism industry representatives acknowledged policy and sector coordination issues to be among the top issues facing the sector, including the lack of centralized marketing support, national tourism policy implementation, and coordination.
“Mongolia’s tourism sector has suffered a loss of MNT 1.5 trillion due to COVID-19 with around 1,600 companies and 88,000 jobs put in risk. We are facing an unprecedented challenge of retaining experienced professionals in the sector and minimizing the impact of the economic downturn. The comprehensive analysis—prepared by the World Bank at this critical time when we need a strategy to revive the tourism sector—will assist us in assessing the current situation and defining the appropriate measures and policy,” – said Minister of Environment and Tourism of Mongolia Mr. B. Bat-Erdene.
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