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Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia

Using the Case of Resource Extraction in Mongolia to Interpret the Bakken Formation of North America. Oil Wells in North Dakota. Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia. What are your images of East Asia?. Historical?. Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea. Urban, High-Tech and Crowded?.

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Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia

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  1. Using the Case of Resource Extraction in Mongolia to Interpret the Bakken Formation of North America Oil Wells in North Dakota Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia

  2. What are your images of East Asia?

  3. Historical? Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul, South Korea

  4. Urban, High-Tech and Crowded? Tokyo, Japan Busan, South Korea

  5. Politically Charged? The DMZ from the South Korean Side

  6. Pop Culture? Japanese manga goods Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

  7. China Shanghai, China Beijing Olympics

  8. Mongolia!…Mongolia?

  9. Outline • Background to Mongolia • The physical environment • Brief overview of the history and culture: A sense of place • The case of mining • Group exercises Being resource rich: A blessing or curse? • Oil in North America

  10. Mongolia • 2.8 million people • 1/3 live in Ulaanbaatar • 95% Mongol (Kazakh and Tuvan minorities) • Language is Mongolian • Buddhist 45%, non-religious 45% • 45% in herding, 35 million livestock Basketball in UB

  11. Cashmere goats and factory near Ulaanbaatar

  12. The Physical Environment

  13. The Steppes

  14. Traditional dairy products A diet high in meat, even in the cities Milking a horse

  15. Wrestling Solar panel Modern ger

  16. Nomadic Life on the Steppes • Could you hack it? Why? Why not? • Possible positives and negatives?

  17. A Quick Cultural History of Mongolia • Chinggis (Genghis) Khan≈12th Century C. Khan memorial near UB The Great Wall of China

  18. Mongolia in the Cold War • 1924-1992: Mongolian People’s Republic • Soviet influence more than Chinese on economics, education and infrastructure • Cyrillic • Vodka very popular Chinggis Khan brand vodka

  19. Post-Cold War • 1990-2000 Soviet support ends • Severe economic hardship • Plus many droughts and hard freezes in the 2000s • Whole herds starve, livelihoods gone • Rapid urban migration • January (3˚F max to -17˚ min) • Strain on air quality

  20. Problems, problems...But! Ger camps on the edge of Ulaanbaatar Strain on municipal services Ger among apartments

  21. “Mine-golia” The Great Hope? • Estimated $1.3 trillion in untapped mineral assets! • Copper, coal, gold, tungsten • Mining exports: $1.3 billion (2007) to 2.3 billion (2010) • Minerals now over 80% of all exports • This is predicted to rise to near 100%! • Many of these resources destined for China • A blessing, right?

  22. Resource Curse? • What is it?

  23. Positives and Negatives for Mongolia • Group work Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolia

  24. Thinking about North America • The Bakken formation • Where is it? What is happening there? • Find and read at least 3 newspaper articles on positive and/or negative changes to the people and places of the Bakken • Relate those changes to/challenge the ideas presented in readings on the resource curse Continued on next slide

  25. Thinking about North America • A blessing, a curse, or both? • 1-2 page reflective journal entry Oil wells in North Dakota at the heart of the Bakken formation

  26. Thanks

  27. Cultural Diffusion: Kimchi • Korean national dish Kimchi in an Ulaanbaatar supermarket

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