Environmental problems of placer gold mining in the Zaamar ...
The Zaamar placer gold mining district is located on the Tuul River, western Tov Aimag at latitude/longitude N48°17'50", E104°24'65" in northern Mongolia's Lake Baikal and Arctic Ocean drainage. Large-scale placer gold mining operations began in the Zaamar region in 1992, and the soum's gold production in 1998 was 4,080 kg (Dallas 1999).