Energy Resources LLC took part successfully in this prestigious selection, held across 6 categories and 8 classes, and with 608 points — the highest score — became the winner of the Best of the Best Grand Prix award. In the Person of the Year category, J. Odjargal, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Energy Resources LLC, was selected with 558 votes, or 18%, of the 3,362 votes cast in the public poll. A total of 22 people were nominated in this category, including academics and researchers, business people and representatives of professional and non-governmental organisations who have achieved real progress in the mining sector or who work in partnership by bringing about or supporting policy change.

The Mining Journal Awards is organised independently of any state or financial influence and clearly stands apart from similar events as a professional selection whose core aim is to encourage and support the leading companies and organisations that have achieved progress and scale in the sector and worked effectively for the benefit of nature and society. For that reason the judging panel includes highly respected, independent experts in the sector. In the other categories this year, respected companies in their fields were selected: Erdenet Mining Corporation (Responsible mining operations), Boroo Gold (Best eco mine), Erdmin (Technology of the year), Wagner Asia (Best mining supplier) and Glojex.

L. Bolormaa, editor of Mongolian Mining Journal:
Mining is itself hard work. It is our duty to explain properly to the government and the public what new achievements and progress the companies doing this hard work are making and what contribution they are making to the country. This year the criteria have become more demanding, and with them our selection is reaching a more professional level. Companies too now carry greater responsibility and have to compete at a higher level. For example, the criteria for the Eco mine category were drawn up by the Ministry of Environment. Next year they will be more demanding still: we are planning that all the indicators — exactly what has been done and planned in environmental rehabilitation and what rehabilitation is outstanding — will be shown on GPS maps rather than written on paper. Year by year, companies have to compete ever more strongly on precisely what work they have done in each category that year.