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Sustainability Report 2018
Ivanhoe Mines’ Sustainability Report details our health, safety, environmental and social responsibility performance in 2018.
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The Kipushi Project positively impacts thousands of people through community efforts. Watch the video to learn more about community initiatives taking place around the Kipushi Project.
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July 3, 2019
Development ore being trucked out at Kakula’s north declines in 50-tonne haul trucks. The lower-grade material is being stockpiled and will be used for commissioning of the Kakula processing plant that is expected to begin operations in Q3 2021.
May 2, 2019
Assay results from 10 new holes drilled at the new Kamoa North Bonanza Zone expand the discovery’s strike length to at least 350 metres with intercepts as high as 18.48% copper over 13.6 metres. The east-west-striking fault structure associated with the Kamoa North Bonanza Zone can be traced for up to 20 kilometres onto the adjacent Western Foreland exploration licences that are 100%-owned by Ivanhoe Mines.
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April 25, 2019
CITIC Metal to invest an additional C$612 million (US$454 million) in Ivanhoe Mines at C$3.98 per share. Ivanhoe Mines’ resulting cash position of C$1.3 billion (US$1.0 billion) is approximately twice the amount required to finance its share of construction costs for the Kakula copper mine.
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March 22, 2019
Ivanhoe Mines issued a new NI 43-101 technical report that provides details on the mining, processing and capex schedules for the planned copper mines at Kakula and Kamoa. The technical report highlights that once the expanded PEA production rate of 18 Mtpa is achieved, Kamoa-Kakula is projected to become the world’s second largest copper mine, with peak annual production of more than 700,000 tonnes of copper.
February 6, 2019
Ivanhoe announced an independent pre-feasibility study for the Kakula Copper Discovery and an updated preliminary economic assessment for the Tier One Kakula-Kamoa Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The stage one, 6 Mtpa operation at Kakula, with estimated development capital of US$1.1 billion, yields an after-tax NPV8% of US$5.4 billion and an IRR of 47% over a 25-year mine life.
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December 18, 2018
Mine development now underway on the 850-metre level at Ivanhoe’s Platreef platinum-group metals, nickel, copper and gold project in South Africa. Shaft 1’s continuing advance has intersected 29 metres of high-grade mineralization from underground mine development, beginning at a depth of 780 metres.
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November 14, 2018
Exploration drilling at the Kamoa North exploration area on the 397-square-kilometre Kamoa-Kakula mining licence has successfully delineated two new corridors containing zones of shallow, thick, high-grade copper. The most significant corridor trends north and south for more than nine kilometres before swinging to the northwest and is projected to continue onto the adjacent Western Foreland exploration licences that are 100%-owned by Ivanhoe Mines.
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October 1, 2018
Ivanhoe Mines announces the Makoko Copper Discovery on its 100%-owned Western Foreland exploration licences near Kamoa-Kakula in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Makoko is Ivanhoe’s third major copper discovery in the DRC.
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Advancing and enhancing communities
A new secondary school has been built in Kaponda, a small village near the Kamoa-Kakula Project, as part of the project's community relations program. Classes will begin soon at another school nearing completion at Muvunda village.
Ivanhoe Mines believes in being a good corporate citizen and neighbour. Our "Corporate Citizenship, Statement of Values and Responsibilities" reflects the obligations and partnerships that naturally accompany the various permissions that we receive from the communities in which we operate.
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About Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) is a Canadian mining company focused on advancing its three principal projects in Southern Africa: the development of new mines at the Kamoa-Kakula copper discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Platreef platinum-palladium-nickel-copper-gold discovery in South Africa; and the extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, also in the DRC.

Key Development Projects

Platreef

South Africa

Development of the planned underground mine at the Flatreef Discovery of platinum-group elements, nickel, copper and gold, in the northern Bushveld Complex.

Kamoa-Kakula

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Exploration and development of underground mines at the Kakula and Kamoa deposits. Kamoa-Kakula is Africa's largest high-grade copper discovery in a previously unknown extension of the Central African Copperbelt.

Kipushi

Democratic Republic of the Congo

A major upgrading program by an Ivanhoe-led joint venture is underway at the past-producing high-grade zinc-copper-silver-germanium mine.

Recent News

June 28, 2019Ivanhoe Mines announces results of voting for the election of directors

June 25, 2019CITIC Metal receives internal approvals necessary to complete its C$612 million investment in Ivanhoe Mines

June 24, 2019Construction of permanent highway linking the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project to Kolwezi airport approximately…

June 19, 2019Ivanhoe Mines corrects factually inaccurate statement made by Reuters