By Tom Daly and Melanie Burton
By Tom Daly and Melanie Burton
BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Rio Tinto RIO.L, RIO.AX, operator of the large Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, stated its copper focus shipments to China had slowed as a consequence of efforts by the authorities to comprise the unfold of the coronavirus.
“We now have suggested clients that we’re partaking with authorities who’re engaged on re-establishing common and protected border crossings,” a spokesman for the miner stated in an e-mail on Wednesday.
The virus outbreak that started in China and prompted a lockdown that has weighed on the Chinese language economic system has sparked issues about metals demand on this planet’s prime copper shopper.
Transport restrictions have been imposed to cease the unfold of the virus.
Mongolia stated on Monday it could droop deliveries of coal throughout its border into China till March 2 and had already stopped overseas nationals coming into by way of China.
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