Reuters: A lone cement ribbon bisecting hundreds of miles of shale and scrub on the high plains of Mongolia's Gobi Desert may be a talisman or curse for nomadic herders that trace their lineage to the empire of Ghengis Khan.
Carved into the Gobi by the Hong Kong-listed Mongolian Mining Corporation (MMC), the 147-mile (245-km), two-lane road is due to open next month, allowing the company to speed up cargoes of coal to China from its expanding Ukhaa Khudag mine.
Ukhaa Khudag is not well-known but is......
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Mongolia’s high plains herders warily eye coal truck
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 23rd, 2011
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