Rio Tinto will be forced to endure an independent review of its failure to meet cost and schedule guidance on Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion, after the mining giant’s less powerful partners united in an extraordinary show of defiance.

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China’s coking coal imports fell to a five-month low in October, hit by slowing Australian arrivals following an unofficial ban on coal imports from the country that was imposed in early October.
China imported 5.89 million tonnes of coking coal in

Most employees are working from home after Mongolia issued a second decree emergency situation and imposed a travel ban, which has left thousands of Mongolians stranded – in Ulaanbaatar people are banned from leaving home apart from buying necessary provisions. However, 13

The European Union and Mongolia have been taking stock of their good trade relations, and looking at opportunities to further strengthen their bilateral trade and investment cooperation agenda.
The platform for this discussion was the third annual sub-committee on trade and

Odey Asset Management has accused Rio Tinto of destroying value through lack of action over problems at Turquoise Hill, through which Rio Tinto owns a giant copper mine in Mongolia.

Turqoise Hill, listed in Canada, owns two-thirds of the Oyu Tolgoi mine with the rest

Fitch reports that the volume of coronavirus-related restructured loans is likely to delay further the resolution of asset-quality issues of Mongolia’s banks. As of September 2020, an estimated 22% of the system’s total loans- or MNT 3.8 trillion in loans

The Monetary Policy Council of the Central Bank of Mongolia held an emergency meeting earlier today (23 November) regarding economic measures announced by Cabinet last week. The Mongol Bank decided to cut its policy rates by 2 percent to 6

Mongolia’s gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 7.3 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of this year, local media reported on Thursday, citing the country’s National Statistics Office (NSO).
The country’s GDP dropped to 26.4 trillion Mongolian tugriks (over 9.2