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September 19, 2018
The strategic equity investment of C$723 million in Ivanhoe Mines by China-based CITIC Metal has been completed. Zijin Mining also has exercised its anti-dilution rights raising additional C$78 million for Ivanhoe, bringing Ivanhoe’s cash position to approximately C$855 million. CITIC Metal and Zijin Mining each purchased their Ivanhoe shares at C$3.68 per share. The funds will be used to advance Ivanhoe’s three world-scale mine-development projects in Southern Africa.
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July 30, 2018
Ivanhoe announced a new Mineral Resource estimate for the rebirth of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-silver-germanium mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The updated Mineral Resource will be used in the preparation of the Kipushi Definitive Feasibility Study. Planned return to production would establish Kipushi as the world’s highest-grade major zinc mine.
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July 27, 2018
Excavation of the box cut for Shaft 2 continues to progress at the Platreef Mine development project in South Africa. The box cut is expected to be excavated to a depth of 29 metres below surface by the end of 2018, to allow for the construction of the concrete foundation for the 103-metre-tall headframe that will house Shaft 2's permanent hoisting facilities.
February 26, 2018
Ivanhoe Mines announced that the company has completed an independently verified, updated Mineral Resource estimate for the ultra-high-grade Kakula Discovery on the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project, near the mining centre of Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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April 25, 2018
Ivanhoe Mines issued its initial Sustainability Report, providing an overview of Ivanhoe’s programs and initiatives conducted in 2017. The report highlights the significant accomplishments achieved and the goals set for future corporate activities.
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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.
November 28, 2017
A new PEA for the development of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project analyzes an initial, two-stage, modular, 12 million-tonne-per-annum operation – supplied by two adjacent six million-tonne-per-annum mines and a direct-to-blister smelter – yielding an after-tax NPV8% of US$7.2 billion and an IRR of 33% over a 44-year mine life.
Combined production of 12 Mtpa would rank Kamoa-Kakula among the world’s five largest copper mines.
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October 3, 2017: Ivanhoe Mines and Fio Corporation report significant advances
from innovative initiative to combat malaria
The ground-breaking Know for Sure campaign has introduced integrated diagnostic and data technology to provide automated, rapid and reliable testing and real-time reporting in the DRC provinces of Haut-Katanga and Lualaba – two malaria-burdened regions that host Ivanhoe’s Kipushi Project and the Ivanhoe-Zijin joint venture Kamoa-Kakula Project. A total of 248 private and public health facilities now offer on-the-spot malaria testing services.
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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

September 19, 2018Strategic equity investment of C$723 million in Ivanhoe Mines by China-based CITIC Metal has been completed

September 19, 2018Yufeng “Miles” Sun and Tadeu Carneiro join the Ivanhoe Mines Board of Directors

September 11, 2018Robert Friedland to present at prestigious China Development Forum’s fall summit in Beijing on September 16

September 6, 2018CITIC Metal's C$723 million strategic equity investment in Ivanhoe Mines to close September 19, 2018