Power supply deal turns on Rio’s lights at Oyu Tolgoi | Mining Australia: "Rio Tinto’s soon to be completed Oyu Tolgoi copper gold mine in Mongolia has secured its power supply with an unnamed Chinese power company, overcoming national rivalries to import power across the border.
Rio Tinto Copper chief executive Andrew Harding said “this agreement means we are on track to bring the first phase of the world-class Oyu Tolgoi mine into production in the first half of 2013”.
Oyu Tolgoi has also built a power line from the mine to the town of Khanbogd, in southern Mongolia, providing the community with access to 24/7 electricity for the first time.
To date Rio Tinto and its partners have invested almost US$6 billion into the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine to produce one of the most technologically advanced mining developments to date, utilising the revolutionary block cave mining method."
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