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Transaction will support 2,000 Jobs Across Several States WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has voted to authorize an approximately $500 million direct loan to finance the continued development of a Mongolian mine that upon completion will generate approximately 30 percent of the Mongolian GDP. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110414/MM83673LOGO) Additionally, Ex-Im Bank's financing...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Nearly a year after a dinosaur fossil was first reported stolen from Mongolia it is finally being returned to its rightful owner. US authorities in New York have returned the remains of the 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar to the Mongolian government. The skeleton, which was looted from the Gobi Desert, was illegally smuggled into the US by Eric Prokopi, who later sold the fossil at an auction in NYC for a cool $1.1...
World leading equipment rental provider enters franchise agreement with Consolidation Services to operate Hertz Equipment Rental brand in Mongolia PARK RIDGE, N.J., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ) has announced that Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation has entered into a franchise agreement with Consolidation Services Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary Mongolia Equipment Rental Corporation. Consolidation Services will have the exclusive license to...
An Arizona State University biologist and her team have found that the Asian subspecies of great bustard, one of the heaviest birds capable of flight, covers migratory routes of more than 2,000 miles, traveling to and from its breeding grounds in northern Mongolia and wintering grounds in Shaanxi province in China. The research study, which is available online and will be published in the next volume of the Journal of Avian Biology, is the first of its kind to monitor the movement of this...
Nomsys Brings Reliable Wireless Connectivity to 70% of the Capital City's One Million Residents in Poor, Rural Areas SUNNYVALE, Calif. and ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) today announced that Nomsys LLC, an Internet service provider based in Mongolia, has selected Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi products and technology to create the largest Wi-Fi access network in Mongolia's capital city of Ulaanbaatar. (Logo:...
SEATTLE, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- L & L Energy, Inc., (Nasdaq: LLEN) ("L&L" or the "Company"), a Seattle-based company with a track record of profitable coal operations in China, provided an update on its mining operations in Guizhou and plans for expansion into Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. Guizhou Expansion Ahead of Schedule In November 2012, L&L acquired two newly built mines in the Guizhou Province. The Luozhou and Lashu mines added 34.2 million tons of reserves...
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Kee Global Advisors (KGA), a corporate development advisory firm headquartered in New York, announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Sun Ecological Technology Development Co., Ltd. (Denkou, Inner Mongolia) to identify strategic partners and investors, both domestically and globally, to accelerate the company's efforts to slow down the desertification of the Ulan Buh Desert, or known as the Wulanbuhe Desert in Chinese, in...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Eric Prokopi, a Florida fossils dealer, has pled guilty to smuggling charges. He has agreed to give up the $1 million Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton seized by the U.S. government earlier this year after he attempted to auction it through Heritage Auctions. Prokopi is giving up "Ty," the T. bataar that will eventually be returned to Mongolia, along with six other dinosaurs and various other bones in a deal that might win him a little...
BAAR, Switzerland, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp. ("Manas") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) has filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 on EDGAR and on SEDAR. (www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). The following provides you with a review of some of the highlights: Highlights Q3 2012 Mongolia: Finalized seismic campaign of 335km and completed two wells in the Ger Chuluu sub-basin Tajikistan: Santos exercised its farm-in option...
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona A group of researchers led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has discovered the first scientific evidence of genetic blending between Europeans and Asians in the remains of ancient Scythian warriors living over 2,000 years ago in the Altai region of Mongolia. Contrary to what was believed until now, the results published in PLoS ONE indicate that this blending was not due to an eastward migration of Europeans, but to a demographic expansion...
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The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland ecoregion, known also as the Mongolian-Manchurian Steppe, located in the temperate grassland Biome, is found in Mongolia, the Chinese Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and northeastern China. The grassland covers an area of 342,600 square miles. This Palearctic temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome, creates a large crescent around the Gobi Desert, stretching across central...
The Asian badger or sand badger (Meles leucurus) is native to The Korean Peninsula, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Its range includes Mongolia and the Urals in the southeast portion of Russia. It prefers a habitat within open woodlands with deciduous vegetation next to pastures, but it will reside in steppe lands, scrublands, coniferous forests, and mixed woodlands. This badger species can be found at an elevation of up to 13,000 feet and is separated from the European badger by the Volga...
Symbol: THMO10 Group: Lichen Family: Thrombiaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Family Thrombiaceae Genus Thrombium Wallr. – thrombium lichen Species Thrombium mongolicum H. Magn. – Mongolia thrombium lichen
Protoceratops, meaning “first horned face,” is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (83 to 70 million years ago) in what is now Mongolia. The first specimen was discovered by photographer JB Shackelford in 1922 in the Gobi desert while working with an expedition looking for human ancestors. The photographer did not uncover any human remains but did find many specimens of fossilized Protoceratops, along with other dinosaurs of...
Tarchia, meaning "brainy one," is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian-Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was taken from the Barun Goyot Formation (previously called the "˜Lower Nemegt Beds"˜). It is currently the geologically youngest known of all Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by at least five specimens. Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea. Despite the rocks, in which the specimens...
