Kakula's northern and southern access drives to connect next month, allowing highly-productive stoping operations to begin in centre of orebody in +8% copperExcellent construction progress being made on Kakula's concentrator plant; first production now expected in July 2021 Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo--(Newsfile Corp. - October 19, 2020) - Robert Friedland and Yufeng "Miles" Sun, Co-Chairmen of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) OTCQX: IVPAF), announced today that excellent progress is being made advancing underground mine development at the Kakula Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 22, 2020) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) (OTCQX: IVPAF) announced today that the company has filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical report covering the Kamoa-Kakula Integrated Development Plan 2020 (Kamoa-Kakula IDP20).The updated NI 43-101 technical report includes the independent definitive feasibility study for the development of the Kakula Copper Mine; together with an updated pre-feasibility study that includes ore mined from the nearby Kansoko Copper Mine in addition to ore mined from Kakula; and an updated, ex...

Construction of the project's first 3.8 million-tonne-per-annum (Mtpa) processing plant and surface infrastructure at the high-grade Kakula Mine more than 52% complete, with first production less than a year awayOrders now being placed for the long-lead items for the project's second 3.8 Mtpa processing plantDevelopment from Kakula's southern decline nearing the centre of the orebody, where grades average between +5% and +8% copperPre-production surface stockpiles at Kakula North, Kakula South and Kansoko now contain an estimated 803,000 tonnes of ore Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo--(Ne...