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China's Chalco scraps bid for Mongolia coal miner

China's biggest aluminium producer Chalco said it had scrapped a planned bid to take a majority stake in a Mongolian coal miner, after Mongolia's government opposed the deal.

Trucks ferry coal from a mine in the southern Gobi desert of Mongolia. China's biggest aluminium producer Chalco said it had scrapped a planned bid to take a majority stake in a Mongolian coal miner, after Mongolia's government opposed the deal.

Chalco had aimed to acquire up to 60 percent of miner SouthGobi's shares in a deal valued at HK$7.2 billion ($928 million).

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