S3: Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology of Northeast Asia (Special Session)

[S3-10] Coal deposits of Mongolia

*Ochirbat Magsarjav¹, Jargalan Sereenen² (1. Mongolian Society of Economic Geologists, 2. Mongolian University of Science and Technology)

Keywords:brown coal, , coking coal, , anthracite, , depression, , Mongolia

Coal deposition in Mongolia was occurred at four main geological periods: Carboniferous, Permian, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Carboniferous, Permian and Jurassic age coal is high in quality and partly they have coking feature as well as containing anthracite. Cretaceous coal is low quality and dominated by brown coal.
There are 15 coal basins in Mongolia, which includes more than 160 coal deposits and 345 coal occurrences. Mongolia has abundant resources of coal and it accounts about 150 billion tons.