Oyu Tolgoi

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Oyu Tolgoi is one of the world’s largest new copper-gold mines and is located in the South Gobi region of Mongolia, approximately 550 km south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and 80 km north of the Mongolia-China border.

Oyu Tolgoi has the potential to operate for approximately 100 years from five known mineralized deposits. The first of those (the Oyut deposit) was put into production as an open-pit operation in 2013.

A second deposit, Hugo North (Lift One), is under development as an underground operation and is scheduled to begin sustainable production in 2022. The other three deposits, Hugo North (Lift Two), Hugo South and Heruga, are not yet scheduled for development.

On October 6, 2009, Turquoise Hill Resources and Rio Tinto signed a long-term, comprehensive Investment Agreement with the Government of Mongolia for the construction and operation of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining complex. The agreement created a partnership between the Mongolian Government – which acquired a 34% interest in the project - and Turquoise Hill Resources, which retained a controlling 66% interest in Oyu Tolgoi. Global miner Rio Tinto, which joined Turquoise Hill Resources as a strategic partner in October 2006, began managing the development of Oyu Tolgoi in December 2010.

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