Mongolian copper Halfway to where?
蒙古铜矿 车行半路,前途未卜
A massive mining project hits a snag
一个庞大的矿业项目遇到了阻碍
IN THE endless brown wastes of the Gobi desert in the south of Mongolia huge blue structuresare springing up.
在蒙古南部的戈壁沙漠上那一望无际的棕色荒原上,巨大的蓝色建筑正在不断地完工。
Some 18,000 workers are employed on Oyu Tolgoi, or Turquoise Hill , the largestundeveloped copper and gold mine in the world.
奥由陶勒盖是世界上最大的未开采铜矿和金矿。共有18000人目前在那里工作。
Rio Tinto, the mining giant that is managing the project,
管理该项目的是世界矿业巨头力拓集团。
flew its chairman, Jan du Plessis, to the site for a ceremony on September 25th to mark thehalfway point of the first phase of construction.
其主席杜立石于9月25日赶到该地参加庆祝第一期工程过半。
Celebrations were hardly marred by rumblings of discontent back in the capital,Ulaanbaatar, from Mongolian politicians.
这次庆祝并没有受到在首都乌兰巴托的蒙古政客们的不满抱怨影响。
But since then the rumblings have got louder, worrying not just Oyu Tolgoi s investors, but allthose gleeful at the prospect of a prolonged mining-led boom in the country.
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