Rio Tinto adati Lachitatu akukonzekera kulipira US $ 3.1 biliyoni, kapena C $ 40 pagawo, pagawo la 49 peresenti ku kampani yamigodi ya ku Canada ya Turquoise Mountain Resources.Turquoise Mountain Resources idakwera 25% Lachitatu pazankhani, phindu lake lalikulu kwambiri kuyambira Marichi.

Zoperekazo ndi $400m kuposa zomwe zidaperekedwa kale $2.7bn kuchokera ku Rio Tinto, zomwe Turquoise Hill Resources idakana sabata yatha, ponena kuti sizinawonetsere phindu lake lanthawi yayitali.

M'mwezi wa Marichi, Rio adalengeza za US $ 2.7 biliyoni, kapena C $ 34 gawo, chifukwa cha 49 peresenti ya Phiri la Turquoise lomwe silinakhale nalo, 32 peresenti yamtengo wapatali pamtengo wake panthawiyo.Turquoise Hill adasankha komiti yapadera kuti iwunike zomwe Rio adapereka.

Rio ali kale ndi 51% ya Turquoise Hill ndipo akufunafuna 49% yotsalayo kuti alandire ulamuliro wambiri wa OyuTolgoi wamkuwa ndi golide.Phiri la Turquoise lili ndi 66 peresenti ya Oyu Tolgoi, imodzi mwamigodi yayikulu kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi yamkuwa ndi golide, m'chigawo cha Khanbaogd m'chigawo cha South Gobi ku Mongolia, ndipo ena onse amalamulidwa ndi boma la Mongolia.

"Rio Tinto ali ndi chidaliro kuti zoperekazi sizimangopereka mtengo wathunthu komanso wachilungamo ku Turquoise Hill komanso ndizokomera onse omwe akhudzidwa pamene tikupita patsogolo ndi Oyu Tolgoi," Jakob Stausholm, wamkulu wa Rio, adatero Lachitatu.

Rio adagwirizana ndi boma la Mongolia koyambirira kwa chaka chino zomwe zidalola kukulitsa kwanthawi yayitali kwa Oyu Tolgoi kuyambiranso atavomera kuti alembe ngongole ya $ 2.4bn.Gawo la pansi pa nthaka la Oyu Tolgoi likamalizidwa, likuyembekezeka kukhala mgodi wachinayi pakukula kwa mkuwa padziko lonse lapansi, pomwe Phiri la Turquoise ndi anzawo akuyembekezeka kupanga matani opitilira 500,000 amkuwa pachaka.

Chiyambireni kuwonongeka kwa katundu mkatikati mwa zaka khumi zapitazi, makampani amigodi akhala akusamala kuti apeze ntchito zazikulu zamigodi zatsopano.Izi zikusintha, komabe, pamene dziko likusintha kukhala mphamvu yobiriwira, ndi zimphona zamigodi zikuwonjezera kukhudzana ndi zitsulo zobiriwira monga mkuwa.

Kumayambiriro kwa mwezi uno, BHP Billiton, chimphona chachikulu kwambiri cha migodi padziko lonse lapansi, anakana ndalama zokwana madola 5.8 biliyoni za OzMinerals wochita migodi yamkuwa chifukwa chakuti nayenso anali wotsika kwambiri.