Mongolia's ETT to expand annual coal output to 50 mln t in '27

Mongolia's state-owned coal producer Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT) aims to increase annual coal production to 50 million tonnes in 2027, up from a planned 35 million tonnes this year. The expansion will depend heavily on improvements to its rail and coal-processing infrastructure, as transport bottlenecks have already left millions of tonnes of coal stockpiled at its mine and washing plant.

B. Chagnaadorj, ETT's CEO, told Prime Minister N. Uchral during the latter's visit to the mine on November 12 that the company had mined 29 million tonnes of coal so far this year. It was holding 7 million tonnes of raw coal at the mine and another 700,000 tonnes