Men extract coal from an informal mine in Nalaikh, a poor urban district 36 km east of the capital Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, January 16, 2019.
Men extract coal from an informal mine in Nalaikh, a poor urban district 36 km east of the capital Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, January 16, 2019. Miners crawl in the darkness for hundreds of meters through narrow, unsafe passages before reaching the coal to be extracted. Today, the mostly informal mine pits that lie beyond the authorities control churn out an average of 70,000 tons of coal per year, heating up half of Ulaanbaatar. From May 2019 the government will impose a ban on burning col within the capital city and its surrounding ger districts, providing an alternative less polluting fuel. However, it is believed that the authorities will not be able to enforce such a ban on a city that relies so much on cheap coal to keep warm during the brutally cold winter months.
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