Protesters Block 1 Key Oyu Tolgoi Road, Disrupting Copper Deliveries to China
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Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 17
Protesters Block 1 Key Oyu Tolgoi Road, Disrupting Copper Deliveries to China
3 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 17
Summary
9 a.m. Wednesday local time, protesters began blockading a key road from Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine, stopping trucks carrying copper concentrate toward the China border.
Rio Tinto’s local subsidiary disclosed the disruption in a Facebook statement, saying the blockade is threatening concentrate deliveries from the massive Mongolian operation.
The protest hits one of the world’s major copper mines, raising the risk of near-term export delays on shipments bound for China.