The "Discover Mongolia-2007" international mining investment forum will be held from November 8-10 in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.

The forum will provide an ideal podium for mining and exploration companies, equipment producers and suppliers, investment and banking institutions, geology and mining academia, professional media organizations, portfolio agencies and departments to expand and enrich their international networking and forge lasting and fruitful partnerships.

The forum aims to provide explorers, miners, investors and industry service providers with information to expedite their business decisions. This information will be delivered through presentations on recent discoveries and exploration results at the mining conference and through lively exchanges at the Investors Exchange Exhibition, which will be held concurrently at the forum venue.

'Discover Mongolia-2007' will help build solid partnerships between and among investors, explorers, miners and the industry service providers and will deliver the suggestions and concerns of investors to the policy makers to facilitate more effective private-public cooperation.

As well as the conference and exhibition the forum will feature the 'Government Hour' series of meetings with government officials to respond to various questions and concerns of investors, and a visit to an operating mine or an attractive deposit.

The Forum is organized by the Mongolian National Mining Association and the Geologists' Union in cooperation with MineInfo, a leading minerals consulting company of Mongolia, and Monrud, a major minerals logistics company. The event is officially supported by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Mongolia and the Minerals Resources and Petroleum Agency of Mongolia.

The forum is supported and sponsored by BHP Billiton, CVRD, Centerra, Ivanhoe Mines, Liebhher, Sandvik, Orica, Troy, RedHill Energy, QGX, Western Prospector and International Uranium.