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Rio Tinto faces major engineering change at Oyu Tolgoi www.mining.com

Rio Tinto (LON: RIO) (ASX:RIO) has approved a shift in underground development at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, pausing progress in the Entrée Resources (TSX: ETG) joint venture area due to ongoing delays in license transfers.
The company said the ramp up of production from Oyu Tolgoi remains on track to deliver an average of around 500,000 tonnes of copper from 2028 to 2036, with options including bringing Panel 1 or Panel 2 South into production first depending on the timing of the Entrée licence transfers.
“With lateral development work only just beginning in Panel 1, this is the right time to pivot and bring forward development in Panel 2 South to maintain our options,” Katie Jackson, chief executive of Rio Tinto Copper, said in a statement.
While limited development will continue in parts of Panel 1 outside the JV boundary, Rio Tinto confirmed that resources will now be reallocated to expedite progress in the more accessible Panel 2 South.
The development freeze in the Entrée JV area stems from a delay in transferring licences to Oyu Tolgoi LLC (OTLLC), the operating entity jointly owned by Rio Tinto (66%) and the Mongolian government (34%).
Entrée expressed disappointment over the holdup. CEO Stephen Scott noted that the transfer process began in February 2025 but remains incomplete.
“The parties have always intended for OTLLC to hold title to the Shivee Tolgoi and Javkhlant mining licenses on behalf of the JV participants,” Scott said. “It is a requirement of the 2008 JV agreement and contemplated in the 2009 Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement.”
He cautioned that any significant delay in development at Lift 1 Panel 1 could adversely impact the project’s cost, schedule, and Entrée’s financial position and share price.
As one of the world’s largest known copper-gold resources, Oyu Tolgoi plays a pivotal role in Rio Tinto’s growth strategy and Mongolia’s economic development.
Open pit mining at Oyu Tolgoi first started in 2011, and the copper concentrator, the largest industrial complex ever built in Mongolia, began processing mined ore into copper concentrate in 2013. Last year, underground production also kicked off, which is expected to elevate Oyu Tolgoi into one of the world’s top copper producers by 2030.

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Chinggis Khaan airport to be expanded through Japan's concessional loan www.akipress.com

Acting Minister of Roads and Transport Delgersaikhan Borkhuu met with Ambassador of Japan to Mongolia Masaru Igawahara, Head of JICA Mongolia Office Kensuke Miyagi and Oriental Consultants Global representative K. Takahashi to discuss the expansion of Chinggis Khaan International Airport through Japan's concessional loan.
Acting Minister Delgersaikhan expressed gratitude for the cooperation and emphasized the urgent need to increase the airport's capacity. He noted that the airport's passenger traffic has been growing rapidly and the airport is currently operating at high capacity, which requires urgent measures to expand infrastructure and improve efficiency.
K. Miyagi from JICA and K. Takahashi from Oriental Consultants Global presented the preliminary design and partial expansion plan of the airport's east and west wings, outlining potential options such as building a new passenger terminal, expanding the existing terminal and extending the runway.
The Acting Minister stressed the importance of aligning the feasibility study with Mongolia's long-term development goals, including urban growth, population projections, customs operations, and Ulaanbaatar's congestion. He asked that the planning cover the period up to 2050 and reflect the expected growth in tourism and international passenger traffic.
Both sides agreed to pool their proposals, start construction early, and aim for early completion. The feasibility study will include input from Mongolian transport and aviation experts, address infrastructure issues, and will be presented for discussion at the cabinet level. The parties also pledged to maintain close coordination throughout the process.

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Contract for the Construction of Gashuunsukhait-Gantsmod Cross-Border Railway Signed www.montsame.mn

“Tavantolgoi Railway” LLC of Mongolia and “China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group” Ltd of the People’s Republic of China have finalized and signed the Contract for the Construction of the Gashuunsukhait-Gantsmod Cross-Border Railway.
The Signing Ceremony was attended by Acting Minister of Road and Transport of Mongolia Delgersaikhan Borkhuu, Head of the Department of Railway and Maritime Transport Policy and Coordination of the Ministry of Road and Transport Kh. Itgelt, Executive Director of “Tavantolgoi Railway” LLC B. Dugerjav, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Mongolia Shen Minjuan, Economic Advisor Liu Jingzhi and Secretary of the Economic and Trade Department of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Mongolia Cao Yue, Deputy General Manager of “China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Group” LLC Li Guoqiang, and General Manager of “China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Group International” LLC Xie Xiaoche.
The base structure of the railway, including the cross-border railway bridge, a station for broad and narrow gauge tracks, technological buildings and facilities are planned to be put into operation within 24 months, and on the 15th of this month, the Mongolian and Chinese sides will drill the first pier foundation of the bridge.
The Gashuunsukhait-Gantsmod Cross-Border Railway Project will boost Mongolia's coal export volume, transport and logistics capacity, and economic growth. The implementation of the Project will facilitate the connection between the Shiveekhuren-Sekhee, Bichigt-Zuunkhatavch, and Khangi-Mandal ports on the Mongolian and Chinese borders by rail, as agreed upon by the Intergovernmental Agreement. As a result, coal exports will increase from 83 million tons to 165 million tons, raising annual export revenue by USD 1.5 billion, and contributing to Mongolia's GDP per capita reaching USD 10 thousand. It is also estimated that transportation costs will decrease by 2-2.5 times, export output will increase by 30 million tons, and transportation revenue will increase by USD 300 million. In addition, 200 permanent and 800 temporary jobs will be created, which will be a leverage in supporting regional development and employment.
The 32.6 km first-class railway will have dual tracks, with 1,520 mm broad gauge and 1,435 mm standard gauge, 19.5 km of main line and single- and double-track bridge structures 8–31 meters high. Its design capacity is 30 million tons of freight annually on the broad gauge and 10 million tons on the standard gauge. Under relevant legislation, the State Procurement Agency of Mongolia conducted the contractor selection and awarded "China Railway Construction Corporation" (CRCC) the contract. Its subsidiary “China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau Group” will carry out construction.
Listed first among the 14 mega-projects in the Government’s 2024–2028 program, the cross-border railway is being developed under an Inter-Governmental Cooperation Agreement signed in Harbin on February 14, 2025, and ratified by the State Great Khural on March 27, 2025. The Agreement covers three initiatives, including joint construction of the cross-border railway, a long-term coal purchase-and-sale contract, and expansion of coal-mine capacity. The “Joint Construction of the Cross-Border Railway” agreement was finalized and signed on 14 May, followed by a joint groundbreaking ceremony. This will be the second cross-border railway to be built after the Zamyn-Uud-Ereen railways established under the 1955 Agreement between Mongolia and the People's Republic of China.

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Ban Ki-moon donates 180 million tugriks for Mongolia's One Billion Trees movement www.akipress.com

President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa received 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and Founder of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future on June 6. Ban Ki-moon is participating in the Sustainability Dialogue 2025 - Climate Action: Billions of Trees International Forum in Ulaanbaatar, Montsame reported.
President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa noted that the President highly appreciates Ban Ki-moon's active work in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, protecting the environment, and combating climate change during his tenure as UN Secretary-General.
President Khurelsukh expressed satisfaction that these efforts are continuing and expanding today, including through the Sustainability Dialogue 2025 - Climate Action: Billions of Trees International Forum, which is co-hosted with the Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future.
Ban Ki-moon expressed gratitude to President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa for organizing this Forum, demonstrating leadership in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and combating climate change.
He noted that the Ban Ki-moon Foundation would continue to cooperate with Mongolia on advancing Sustainable Development Goals, combating climate change, improving public health, enhancing women's leadership and participation, and supporting children and youth.
The 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations announced a donation of MNT 180 million in support of the One Billion Trees national movement and proposed collaborating to expand the movement into a regional initiative.

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Mongolia forces Rio Tinto into major engineering change at copper mine www.afr.com

Copper production from Rio Tinto’s most important growth project will not increase as rapidly nor efficiently as expected, after tensions with the Mongolian government forced Rio to make a major engineering change at the Oyu Tolgoi mine.
Rio has been forced to halt eight months of tunnelling work to move the giant underground mine in a northerly direction because the Mongolian government has delayed approval for the mine to enter tenements that are partly owned by Canadian company Entree Resources.
Rio and Entree were close to a deal to include those tenements into the Oyu Tolgoi mine plan, but Mongolia’s refusal to transfer the tenements has forced Rio to adopt “an alternative mine plan” that will be less lucrative.
Rio will now try to expand the mine in a southerly direction towards tenements that are not owned by Entree, in a bid to limit the damage to production rates and productivity caused by the Mongolian government’s brinksmanship.
“Development work in the Entrée joint venture area is now being paused until the necessary transfer of licences from Entrée to Oyu Tolgoi LLC is processed by the Government of Mongolia,” said Rio in a statement on Friday night.
Rio did not quantify the hit to copper production or value from the change. The company said its goal of producing an average of 500,000 tonnes of copper from Oyu Tolgoi between 2028 and 2036 remained intact.
But Rio copper boss Katie Jackson made clear that Mongolia’s refusal to approve the transfer of tenements, and the adoption of an “alternative mine plan”, was a negative result.
Rio chief Jakob Stausholm (pictured) gave Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa a tour of the Oyu Tolgoi underground mine two months ago. Bloomberg
“Transferring the licences for the Entrée joint venture area will maximise the value Oyu Tolgoi delivers for all parties, and we are continuing to work with the Government of Mongolia and Entrée Resources towards this outcome,” she said in a statement.
The change to the Oyu Tolgoi mine plan is the latest example of the toxic relationship between Rio and the Mongolian government, with the developing nation relying on the mine for approximately 30 per cent of its gross domestic product.
Rio and Mongolia are in arbitration over $US438 million ($674 million) worth of disputed taxes, and Mongolia has filed a separate claim in the British High Court that accuses Rio of engaging in political bribery more than a decade ago.
The huge engineering changes forced upon Oyu Tolgoi on Friday also appear to be linked to Mongolia’s desire to get a great share of the wealth from the mine.
The agency responsible for the delay in transferring the tenements is the Mongolian Tax Authority, which has the right to judge the payable tax on the transfer of the tenements.
Tensions over the tenement transfer also come at a time of political instability in Mongolia; Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai resigned on Tuesday after losing a no-confidence vote.
The parliamentary instability has cemented the power of Mongolia’s President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, who was given a personal tour of the Oyu Tolgoi underground mine by Rio chief Jakob Stausholm two months ago.
Entree Resources chief executive Stephen Scott said the people of Mongolia would be among the victims of the engineering changes forced upon the Oyu Tolgoi mine on Friday.
“Our top priority is to try to reduce the adverse economic impact on all Oyu Tolgoi project stakeholders, including the people of Mongolia, that will result from a Panel 1 underground development delay,” he said.
Entree shares fell by 9 per cent in Canadian markets on Friday in response to the news.
Rio has spent the past eight months tunnelling towards the Entree tenements in preparation for extracting high-grade rock from that area as the next zone in the mine plan.
Blasting of the first drawbell on the Entree leases – a critical excavation that symbolises the start of underground mining in the zone – was expected in 2026 under the terms of a mine plan published in 2023.
Rock from the Entree leases was expected to feed Oyu Tolgoi’s processing plant in 2027.
It is now unclear when the first drawbell will be blasted.
Entree has the right to 30 per cent of the value extracted from the tenements down to a depth of 560 metres, and 20 per cent of the value extracted from below that depth.
Mongolia and Entree are in talks for the host nation to own 34 per cent of the value extracted from the Entree tenements.
The decision to move the mine in a southerly direction means a section of rock called “panel 2 south” will likely be mined two years sooner than was planned in 2023.
Rio said its promise to produce between 780,000 to 850,000 tonnes of copper in 2025 from its global portfolio of mines was unaffected by Friday’s changes at Oyu Tolgoi.
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Peter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com

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Ancient Wall in Mongolia's Gobi Desert Did More Than Defend www.newser.com

A new study is shedding light on the Gobi Wall, a massive but little-understood medieval barrier that crosses 200 miles of Mongolia's highland deserts. For their research published in the journal Land, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the National University of Mongolia, and Yale combined satellite imagery, on-foot surveys, and excavations to reveal that the Gobi Wall and its garrison complexes were mainly built during the Xi Xia dynasty (AD1038–1227), per a release.
 This era, led by the Tangut people, saw the expansion of frontier defenses as regional power dynamics shifted. The wall system, previously considered to be a simple military defense, is now understood to have served multiple purposes: marking boundaries, consolidating imperial control, and managing resources. The study found evidence suggesting that people inhabited or used the area for centuries, from the 2nd century BC through the 19th century AD, highlighting the wall's long-term strategic role. Built mainly from rammed earth and reinforced with stone and wood, the wall's construction took advantage of available local resources in the remote, excessively dry setting.
The researchers also noted that the wall's route was carefully chosen to align with essential resources like water and wood, and to make use of features such as mountain passes and sand dunes. Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi, one of the project's leads, said the research challenges prevailing ideas about Inner Asia's border systems. He noted that the Gobi Wall was less a static boundary and more a flexible tool for managing movement, trade, and territory. Archaeology Magazine, meanwhile, features a 12th-century burial uncovered by the same team. (This content was created with the help of AI. Read our AI policy.)

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India, Mongolia hold joint military exercise 'Nomadic Elephant' in in Ulaanbaatar www.newindianexpress.com

Under institutionalized military collaboration to strengthen India–Mongolia relations, the 17th edition of the joint exercise “Nomadic Elephant 2025” is underway at the Special Forces Training Centre in Ulaanbaatar.
According to the Indian Army, the drill focuses on non-conventional operations in semi-urban and mountainous terrain under a United Nations mandate. It aims to enhance both forces’ operational capabilities.
“The participating contingents are actively exchanging best practices in counter-terrorism operations and precision sniping, thereby improving interoperability. Through joint drills, both forces are working to strengthen their ability to respond effectively to contemporary security challenges,” said the Army.
The exercise highlights the growing defence cooperation between India and Mongolia. The Army said, “Extensive training activities are being conducted to bolster mutual coordination and preparedness. Troops from both countries are refining their operational tactics and developing the ability to operate in complex terrains and environments.”
A key component of “Nomadic Elephant” is simulated UN peacekeeping operations, replicating real-world scenarios where multinational forces must collaborate under diverse and challenging conditions.
As the exercise progresses, both contingents engage in tactical drills, share combat experiences, and exchange valuable knowledge. These engagements are instrumental in building interoperability and ensuring that Indian and Mongolian forces can operate seamlessly in future peacekeeping or humanitarian missions.
Beyond tactical training, “Nomadic Elephant” emphasises cultural exchange and camaraderie. “Soldiers from both nations have had the opportunity to showcase elements of their respective cultural heritages, strengthening the bond of friendship and mutual respect,” the Army said, adding that cultural sharing plays a vital role in forging enduring ties.
The exercise also focuses on extracting key lessons to enhance future joint operations. This collaboration not only boosts the defence capabilities of both nations but also reaffi

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The "Czech Villadom" Project to Provide Green Housing for 40 Households Launches www.montsame.mn

During the State Visit of President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa to the Czech Republic in March 2025, Mongolia and the Czech Republic established a Comprehensive Partnership and signed cooperation documents.
Within this framework, the “Czech Villadom” Project is being implemented, constructing apartments for 40 households on a two-hectare site in the 34th khoroo of Songinokhairkhan district, Ulaanbaatar, with Czech investment. The apartments incorporate advanced Czech technology, European standards, innovation, and know-how, featuring renewable energy systems and smart insulation to reduce heat loss, and are highly resistant to earthquakes. Furthermore, 3,500 trees will be planted under the “Billions of Trees” National Movement.
The two sides underlined that this Project is a realization of the agreements reached between the Heads of State of the two countries and will make an important contribution to encouraging private investment and mutually beneficial cooperation. The Project is being implemented by the Czech-invested company “ČM Blue Lines.” Previously, the Czech company “Finep” invested USD 30 million to construct apartments for 1,000 households for the employees of “Erdenet Mining Corporation” in Orkhon aimag.
The Launch Ceremony of the “Czech Villadom” Project was attended by Chairman of the Standing Committee on State Structure of the State Great Khural and Head of the Mongolia-Czech Parliamentary Friendship Group Bat-Erdene Jadamba, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to Mongolia Jan Vytopil, Foreign Policy Advisor to President of Mongolia Odbayar Erdenetsogt, General Architect of Ulaanbaatar City Tugsdelger Chinbat, and other officials.

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Legal Regulations Protecting Taxpayers’ Rights and Interests Enforced www.montsame.mn

Since February 2025, the tax authority has discontinued the procedure of publicizing information about taxpayers, without the taxpayers’ consent, who have violated tax legislation, failed to rectify the violations, or have repeated the same violation three or more times.
In response to the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the procedure violates human rights, the State Great Khural (Parliament) amended Section No.13.4 of Article No.13 of the General Taxation Law. According to the amendment, the name, number, and case details of taxpayers who are officially wanted or under investigation for falsification of financial documents can be published on the tax authority’s official website without the taxpayer’s consent.
However, the taxpayer must be notified and allowed to provide explanations and proposals 10 days in advance of the public disclosure. Moreover, once it has been determined whether the taxpayer has falsified financial documents or their address of residence has been confirmed, the taxpayer shall be removed from the public list.
This Law prohibits the tax authority from disclosing taxpayer information under any circumstances except when the previously mentioned conditions are met. According to the Media and Public Relations Department of the State Great Khural, the amendment made to the General Taxation Law on January 17, 2025, aims at ensuring human rights and freedoms as well as protecting taxpayers’ legal rights and interests, aligning with the Parliament’s strategic goal to foster a people-centered legal environment.

 

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Third State Central Hospital Introduces Surgery for Deep-Seated Brain Tumors www.montsame.mn

 The Third State Central Hospital introduced the technology of surgery for deep-seated brain tumors, and the necessary equipment for surgery was handed over to the Hospital on June 5, 2025.
Within the framework of the policy of “Reducing incurable diseases in Mongolia”, medical specialists of the Hospital have been trained at the Koc University Hospital and American Hospital of the Republic of Türkiye to localize “Surgical treatment of deep-seated complex brain and spinal cord tumors and tumor-like disorders.”
The Hospital team successfully performed surgery on 18 patients with tumors in deep brain structures, including thalamus, basal ganglia, and pituitary gland, in Mongolia, using modern surgical techniques and skills acquired in developed countries.
Accessing deep brain structures is a complex and high-risk operation, but the successful introduction of technological advances into medical practice has brought the quality of diagnosis and surgery to a new level. The Third State Central Hospital Directors emphasized that the Hospital staff is working to further develop this type of surgery and introduce safer and more effective methods of treating severe brain tumors.

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