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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements<br />
21 TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES (Continued)<br />
(c)<br />
Other receivables (Continued)<br />
Note:<br />
(i)<br />
(ii)<br />
(iii)<br />
(iv)<br />
Amount due from related parties are unsecured, interest-free and have no fixed repayment terms (see Note<br />
32(a)).<br />
At 31 December 2015 and 2014, prepayments and deposits mainly represent the prepayments made to the<br />
Group’s mining contractor.<br />
VAT and other tax receivables include amounts that have been accumulated to date in certain subsidiaries<br />
and were due from the GoM Taxation Authority. Based on current available information the Group anticipates<br />
full recoverability of such amounts. Further details are stated in Note 30(b).<br />
It represented the compensation amount receivable from the GoM upon the termination of a Build-Operate-<br />
Transfer Concession Agreement (the “Concession Agreement”) signed on 6 May 2013, relating to the<br />
railway base infrastructure between Ukhaa Khudag coking coal mine and Gashuun Sukhait border check point<br />
of Mongolia (the “UHG-GS Railway”), after taking into account of liabilities assumed by the GoM. The Group<br />
has been negotiating with the GoM regarding the potential investment in a railway project of the GoM and the<br />
compensation amount could be converted into equity of a special purpose enterprise to be established by the<br />
GoM to implement the railway project and/or reimbursed.<br />
Subsequent to the balance sheet date, and based on the contracted exchange rate, the Ministry of Finance<br />
(“MOF”), representative designated by GoM, issued MNT denominated promissory notes with total face<br />
value of approximately MNT120.6 billion (equivalent to USD60,336,000) to the Group with regards to the<br />
settlement of this receivables in relation to the termination of the Concession Agreement. Until the issue of<br />
the consolidated financial statements, the Group has received all the above mentioned MNT denominated<br />
promissory notes, and as such its rights for equity conversion into the railway project shall deemed as<br />
terminated.<br />
(v) At 31 December 2015, this item mainly represented the interest receivables on deposit. At 31 December 2014<br />
this item mainly represented the reimbursement receivables due from Erdenes MGL LLC of USD8.4 million.<br />
All other receivables were aged within one year and expected to be recovered or expensed off within<br />
one year.<br />
22 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS<br />
2015 2014<br />
USD’000 USD’000<br />
Cash in hand 13 48<br />
Cash at bank 50,689 252,808<br />
Cash at bank and in hand 50,702 252,856<br />
Less: time deposits with original maturity over three months (50,000) (50,000)<br />
Cash and cash equivalents in the consolidated cash flow statement 702 202,856<br />
As at 31 December 2015, certain of the Group’s borrowings were secured by the Group’s cash at bank of<br />
USD39,000 (31 December 2014: USD7,297,000) (see Note 23).<br />
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