Workers on a conveyer belt used to move ore to the concentrator area at the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia’s South Gobi Desert. Oyu Tolgoi, Mongolian for Turquoise Hill, is a combined open pit and underground mining project. The Parliament passed a law in May that restricted foreign investment in the country’s most attractive asset, its mineral deposits. Now, the government is taking aim at a crucial deal with the multinational mining giant Rio Tinto, a pact that many see as the foundation of the country’s recent economic growth.
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