Work on the Oyu Tolgoi underground project, in Mongolia, has been slowed as a result of measures put in place by Mongolia to contain the spread of Covid-19, diversified mining major Rio Tinto said on Monday.
Mongolia has restricted the movement of goods and people in the country, as well as cross border travel.
Rio Tinto said that these measures would impact on the availability of specialist service providers at the site, which were required to safely continue work on technical activities, such as the headframe commissioning of Shafts 3 and 4.