Rio Tinto casts doubts over Mongolian project
RIO Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine expansion in Mongolia, is looking increasingly uncertain, with a recent tax dispute headed towards arbitration and adding to a long list of…
Women’s rights undermined
…research was conducted in Mongolia. Mongolia is in the midst of a mining boom driven in part by Australia’s Rio Tinto and its Oyu Tolgoi mine – one of the…
New Mongolian coal plant to power Rio Tinto copper project
…the Mongolian grid by approximately 40 per cent, is to supply the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine. The mine is majority owned by Turquoise Hill Resources, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto….
Rio Tinto in $130m unpaid tax dispute with Mongolia
Mongolia’s Tax Authority claims a Rio Tinto Group unit operating in the country has unpaid taxes, penalties and disallowed entitlements associated with the $6.6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine development….
World Bank funded mines threatening livelihoods
…sector arm, on a $20 billion investment framework providing legal and financial backing to the Guinean Simandou mine project. In Mongolia Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi project is still causing controversy….