Mongolia $1.25/Day Labor Amid $4K Purses Stirs Discontent

Sapaar is 23 and he’s a “ninja” miner, hauling low-quality coal from a pit in the Mongolian steppes for 12 hours a day. Sapaar’s coal is not the steel-making variety the bigger mines export to China, a trade that helped the economy expand a world-beating 17.3 percent in 2011. The boom brought lux…

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Mongolia $1.25/Day Labor Amid $4K Purses Stirs Discontent