Altan Rio, founded in 2007, is based in Vancouver BC, Canada. The Company explores large-scale gold and copper projects in Mongolia, one of the world's most prospective mineral regions, using innovative exploration targeting techniques and leveraging long-term in-country experience. The Company’s license holdings in Mongolia, which total more than 153,310 hectares (378,873 acres), contain significant zones of newly identified primary gold and copper mineralization across a very large area of unexplored ground. Altan Rio’s primary focus is the vast 140,174 hectare Chandman-Yol copper-gold project in western Mongolia.