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  • Mongolia: A country of contrasts

    John Wood, For Mining News|Updated Aug 30, 2009

    No, no….stop, stop, stop" muttered Ken Yockey from the front seat of the land cruiser as we zoomed past a lumbering fully loaded end dump truck on the inside shoulder of the narrow road; while trying to keep up with our companion land cruiser,which was zooming past the same truck on the outside! Visions of Mad Max and the Blues Brothers flashed through my mind. Charles Howard, wedged inside the front seat of that land cruiser, was thinking he had finally found drivers like those in Johannesburg, South Africa, while Sabre...