RIO News: Mongolia calls on Rio Tinto to keep budget for giant copper mine in check - 27th Jan 2023, 3:20am

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By Clara Denina

LONDON (Reuters) - Mongolia has asked Rio Tinto, its partner in the huge Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert, not to further increase its estimated $7.06 billion budget for the project's expansion, its mining minister told Reuters.

The two partners have only just ended a long-running tussle over the underground expansion of the mine, which is behind schedule and over budget, with Rio last year agreeing to waive $2.4 billion in debt owed to it by the government an...

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