Rio Tinto and Canada's Ivanhoe are locked in a Mongolian stand-off over a copper and gold deposit near the Chinese border with a capital cost of $4.6bn. The dispute, as convoluted as the plot of Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, revolves around how easily Rio can take a majority interest in the Vancouver-based miner, so securing control of its Oyu Tolgoi deposit. So far, Rio has financed the project in return for a growing stake in Ivanhoe. It holds about 30 per cent, but is capped by a standstill at 47 per cent until next year.
力拓(Rio Tinto)與加拿大艾芬豪(Ivanhoe)圍繞一處蒙古銅金礦的爭執，陷入了僵局。該礦靠近中國邊境，開發的資本成本為46億美元。爭執的焦點是力拓獲得艾芬豪的多數權益、進而控制其奧尤陶勒蓋(Oyu Tolgoi)礦的難易程度。較量之復雜，不亞于沃爾特?司各特爵士(Sir Walter Scott)的小說《艾凡赫》(Ivanhoe)的情節。迄今為止，力拓一直為該項目提供資金，作為交換，該公司對艾芬豪的持股比例不斷提升。目前力拓持股30%，但根據一項暫停收購協議，力拓在明年10月之前的持股上限為47%。