Rio firms up a pipeline jewel
…asset, the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold prospect in Mongolia. By moving to 51 per cent of Ivanhoe, and with anti-dilution rights to protect its position, Rio has finally buried the…
Mining threatens herders in Mongolia: report
…were paying a heavy price. In 2009, Mongolia sealed a long-awaited multi-billion dollar deal with Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines and Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto to develop Oyu Tolgoi, one of the…
The hidden human cost of the 2012 Olympic medals
…Mirror investigation uncovers the human price people say they are paying for those precious medals. Its exposé stretches 5,000 miles from the sparkling Olympic stadium to the Oyu Tolgoi copper…
Gobi mega-mine puts Mongolia on brink of world's greatest resource boom
Mongolia’s mining boom includes a vast coal mine at Tevan Tolgoi and Rio Tinto‘s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, which will provide some of the metal for the 2012…
Spoiling over Mongolia's hoards
…it would re-negotiate the Oyu Tolgoi agreement in order to increase its interest to 50%, in one of the world’s biggest copper-gold lodes. Not surprisingly, the Oyu Tolgoi partners, Ivanhoe…