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23rd November 2018

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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Challenging ground conditions and shaft completion delays during the development of the $5.3-billion underground project at the Oyu Tolgoi copper/gold mine, in Mongolia, have resulted in a nine-month schedule setback. Rio Tinto’s Turquoise Hill, which owns 66% of the mine, and the Mongolia government, which owns the remaining 34%, last week reported that sustainable production would now be achieved only in the third quarter of 2021, and not at the start of 2021 as previously forecast. In this picture, a dump truck operator walks past a Komatsu 930E dump truck in a maintenance bay at Oyu Tolgoi, which is located in the South Gobi desert. Rio Tinto took control of the orebody in 2012, 11 years after its discovery.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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