Rio Tinto on Monday proposed to buy 49% of Canada’s Turquoise Hill it does not already own for about $2.7 billion, as the Anglo-Australian miner looks to ramp up the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining project in Mongolia.
The non-binding, C$34 per share offer represented a more than 32% premium to Turquoise Hill’s Friday close, and follows Rio Tinto’s settlement with the Mongolian government in January of a long-running dispute over the $6.93 billion expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi project.
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