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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 />

Annual Report 2015<br />

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