Khashaat Coal Project
The Khashaat
Coal Project is located in the northwestern part of
the Sayshand Province of Mongolia known as the
The Khashaat Coal Project area is
situated around 8.5 km west of the nearest town,
Arshaantayn
The Khashaat Coal Project is at
the preliminary exploration phase. Based on regional
geology interpretation, the Khashaat coal bearing
formation appears to be formed within an anticlinal
structure trending west to east. The coal bearing
formation in the Khashaat area is part of the
A preliminary drilling exploration
programme comprising of 45 boreholes covers the Khashaat
project area. A site investigation by the technical
consultants, SRK, of the current mining operation at
Khashaat, located in the western part of the area,
delineated the coal seam dipping gently (less than 30
degrees) at the subcrop in the hinge of anticline. The
area consists of two main seams of which the lowest seam
is significantly thick. The upper seam appears to be
lenticular and therefore is not consistent across the
deposit. The thickness of the upper seam ranges from 3
to 5 m. The lowest seam averages around 45 m in
thickness and contains several stone bands. In the
northern part of the Khashaat area, the coal
unconformably underlies unconsolidated Quaternary
sediments.
The Khashaat coal is predominantly
composed of bright bands with several minor dull bands
and thin partings. Minor secondary pyrite was found in
the coal seam. Quality analyses from boreholes in the
surrounding area indicate the seams in the Khashaat area
have a calorific value ranging from 4,300 kcal/kg to
5,608 kcal/kg (adb). Based on these observations, SRK
concluded that the coal is suited for the domestic
thermal market. The preliminary geological model shows
no indication of faulting, and based on the low
stripping ratio, average 3:1, the Khashaat Coal Project
area is also suited to opencut extraction.
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