Mining Mongolia’s Copper
Australian mining company Rio Tinto recently began operations extracting copper from an underground mining complex at the Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia. Originally opened in 2012 as an open…
Australian mining company Rio Tinto recently began operations extracting copper from an underground mining complex at the Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia. Originally opened in 2012 as an open…
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