Rio lowers copper target at Oyu Tolgoi

The move will help the cash-strapped coal and iron ore miner to continue operating for the short term.

Until early November, the failure at the Canadian Mount Polley copper mine had been the worst such breach in recent years.

The company said that extending Kestrel, its only underground coal operation, would add 20 years to the mine’s life.

Mine waste has oozed 440 kilometres downstream and now covers two states.

Sales of excavators expected in China for entire 2015 is fewer than the total in March 2011 alone.

The miner has also been extremely hard-hit in recent months by a double whammy of falling prices and China fears.

With the changes, Anglo’s chief Mark Cutifani is trying to turn around the company’s fortunes following years during which it has underperformed its peers.

Until now, there was no legislature clarifying issues such as whether resources mined from celestial bodies could be sold on Earth.

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