EREL LLC is a Mongolian company headquartered in

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north ce ...

, active in

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

and construction, established in 1989. Founder and current president is Badarchiin Erdenebat, also founder of the Motherland Party. Construction activities began in 1994. The company has 1,200 employees in more than 10 companies in industries ranging from geological exploration, mining, construction, construction materials manufacturing, road construction to banking and education sectors. In 2000, Erel was the second largest gold mining company in Mongolia after Mongol Gazar, with a 1364 kg yearly output, amounting to 12.9% of the national production. Erel's name is connected with the alleged failure to rehabilitate the ground after leaving their

gold mining Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface ...

fields along the

Ongi River The Ongi River ( mn, Онги гол, zh, 翁金河, 翁金高勒) flows from the southeastern slopes of the Khangai Mountains in Övörkhangai Province for through the endorheic Ongi River Basin in Mongolia and through the aimag capital Arvai ...

in the early 1990s.

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{{reflist *https://www.uvm.edu/~shali/Mining%20Mongolia%20paper.pdf Mining companies of Mongolia Companies based in Ulaanbaatar

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