With the two german guys I have been to Erdenet on Wednesday.
We first took a shared taxi and there we met an american girl from peace corp.
It took us around 2 hours to reach the city.
This is the 3rd city of Mongolia
And the city is quite compact compared to Darkhan
And it gives an impression of having more money because of the mine
But still we have all these russian style building everywhere, well different taste ...
In the street you always see people with the dell (traditional clothe), this is so nice!!!
Yeahhh a french guy, oh no this is a mongolian with a beret :-)
Many men wear this beret, very nice!!!
And during the day people are walking in the main street, it was also very sunny, so very nice !!
Russia, Russia ...
And so we went there, not for the beautiful city :-), but to visit one of the biggest copper mine in Asia.
Our guide was from the University of Erdenet.
That's him Bayarjargal!!!
The visit was in this russian vehicle, very nice!!
And many things are russian because the mine was grounded with Russia and they still work in cooperation
Here this is the place where they extract the stones
They are digging very deep and every friday they are making some explosions
in the background you see the city.
For the moment they are very deep so the copper is not so good anymore.
When it will be very bad they will go to another place nearby.
For the visit we had some security clothes, very sexy :-)
And this is an other view of the mine, quite impressive !!!
And to extract all the things they have this monster trucks!!
To you see my size compare to these things!!!!
And it's us riding the world :-)
After that they have to extract what they want from the stones.
So they are having a lot of processes that I can't explain anymore...
But you have a huge hall where they clean, process, extract and that in a big noise!!!
The size of everything is very impressive :-)
They have some other part of the mine where they use the iron that they find to produce the tools that they need.
So here the people are melting it
You see that's the cooperation between Russia and Mongolia.
The blond one is mongolian :-))))
In this part they are doing the tools from the iron that they have melted.
And this is the copper. They need again to do another process to have the metal that we know.
The mine has around 60000 employees, with many department, the university, hospital, research, …
This is making the city to live very well!
At the university this are some mask that they use, I found that one very funny :-)
So we have visited around 2 hours, was very nice, something really different!
And after that again a shared disco taxi (with music on demand :-)) to go back to Darkhan!!!
