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Article: Ivanhoe Mines committed to long-term leadership role in controlling development of the Turquoise Hill copper and gold discovery in Mongolia's South Gobi region.
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- September 8, 2003
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The following statement was issued today by Robert M. Friedland, Chairman and President of Ivanhoe Mines:
Ivanhoe Mines has discovered one of the world's largest known gold and copper porphyry deposits at Turquoise Hill, better known to Mongolians as Oyu Tolgoi. It is a dynamic project, the scope of which is being broadened daily by 16 drilling rigs that are working around the clock, expanding the limits of the copper- and gold-rich Far North Zone and locating the high-grade roots of this extraordinary mineral system.
It is no surprise that a discovery of such significance is generating widespread interest in Ivanhoe's ongoing planning for the ...