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  1. forum rang 10 DeZwarteRidder 31 mei 2021 16:09
    Canadian mining company Ivanhoe Mines’ Western Foreland exploration licences, located to the west of the tier-one Kamoa-Kakula copper project, is a key pipeline asset for the company, which it believes can yield additional high-grade copper discoveries within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

    Despite being focused on executing construction and development activities at the Kamoa-Kakula, Platreef and Kipushi projects, the company has exploration in its DNA and company founder and executive co-chair, Robert Friedland, is always in search of the next world-scale discovery, writes CHANTELLE KOTZE.

    THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN MINING REVIEW AFRICA ISSUE 3, 2021
    READ THE FULL DIGIMAG HERE OR SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE A PRINT COPY HERE

    Having amassed a wealth of geological and related technical information about the Western Foreland region during the discovery and advancement of the nearby Kamoa-Kakula project, Ivanhoe Mines has spent the past two years securing the various exploration licenses that now make up the Western Foreland exploration project.

    According to Ivanhoe Mines VP for resources George Gilchrist, the Western Foreland exploration project consists of 17 licences to the north, south and west of Kamoa-Kakula. These licences were identified based on the exciting potential for the extension of the geological terrain that hosts the high-grade mineralisation at Kamoa-Kakula. The 17 licences cover a combined area of approximately 2 550 km2 of ground which the company’s geological team has prioritised as the most promising for further high-grade copper discoveries.

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    “Because the region has seen virtually no modern exploration, we will be building out the infrastructure necessary to access and explore the broader land package, mapping the region and leveraging our proprietary database to prioritise the discovery targets that contain Kamoa-Kakula-style copper mineralisation,” says Gilchrist.

    In pursuit of the next major copper discovery in the DRC

    Having successfully extended the Kamoa copper deposit (first discovered in 2008) with the discovery of the Kakula deposit in January 2016, Ivanhoe embarked on exploration to the west of Kakula in 2017 to test the surrounding area along the Central African Copperbelt. This resulted in the company’s third copper third discovery – Makoko, which was discovered 20 km from Kakula, on the same prospective horizon as both Kamoa and Kakula.

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    Makoko shares characteristics with the Kamoa Far North Discovery and the recent Kiala Discovery – both of which adjoin the northern boundary of the Kamoa-Kakula mining licence to the Western Foreland exploration licences, and which have the potential to host high-grade copper zones.

    Makoko was initially drilled over an area measuring 4.5 km x 1.5 km, with new drilling intercepting significant copper mineralisation over an additional 7.5 km of strike south-west of the initial discovery area. The Makoko discovery hole, DD004, returned 3.94 m (true width) grading 5.46% copper starting from 306 m downhole. Other holes were equally high-grade, with DD010 intersecting 3.21 m (true width) of 6.78% copper, starting from 441 m; and DD017 cutting 3.19 m (true width) of 6.49% copper starting from 471.7 m. The initial discovery was defined by over 50 diamond drillholes.

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    The company’s limited drilling to date on the Western Foreland exploration project has been focused at the Makoko and Kiala discoveries, where permanent road access has been established.

    In addition to early 2020 drilling at the Kiala Discovery and drilling in the second half of 2020 at the Makoko Sud Discovery, Ivanhoe’s exploration work in 2020 included stream-sediment sampling, soil geochemical sampling, as well as outcrop and stream mapping on the new tenements acquired in 2019. In total, 411 stream-sediment samples and 958 soil samples were collected and processed for analysis.

    According to Gilchrist, Ivanhoe’s geologists first identified the prospectivity of the Kamoa-Kakula area in the mid-2000s using the same tools and techniques.

    In Q4, 2020, a total of eight new diamond drill holes were also completed along strike of Makoko to the west. The drilling aimed to confirm the continuation of prospective lower Nguba stratigraphy westwards toward the new exploration permits. “Makoko West is extremely significant for the exploration potential of the new exploration permits as it demonstrates that both the target stratigraphy extends westward and that the copper mineralising system on the western edge of the basin is laterally extensive,” explains Gilchrist.

    A high-resolution electromagnetic and radiometric survey also commenced in Q4, 2020 and is ongoing. Once complete, the survey will help to better understand the stratigraphic and structural architecture of the new exploration areas, something that is key to generating early stage targets for ground surveys.

    Expansion and acceleration of the Western Foreland exploration programme

    Much of this year’s exploration will focus on more than 1 700 km2 of new, 100%-owned permits that were acquired in 2019 and received environmental certification in 2020.

    “The target of the 2020 field season and the initial phase of the 2021 exploration programme is very much about accumulating data and working with our existing models to pinpoint the best targets for future exploration and drilling,” Gilchrist explains, noting that the early stage exploration and data collection is being used to deepen the company’s understanding of the geology of the new licences for target generation.

    This initial exploration programme, budgeted at US$16 million (with optionality to increase the budget should results warrant) will include approximately 40 000 m of combined aircore and diamond drilling, airborne and ground-based geophysics, and soil sampling and will build on work completed in 2020.

    Ivanhoe’s exploration team now is working on a comprehensive, fast-tracked exploration programme for the coming years.

    “With the same team that discovered the world-scale resources at Kamoa-Kakula firmly driving exploration at Western Foreland, leveraging the same systematic techniques and data-rich processes, we believe we are in the midst of the next generation of great copper discoveries in the DRC,” says Gilchrist.

    “Given the strong resource base currently established at Kamoa-Kakula, and the great work being done by our development team, we can potentially expand the Kamoa-Kakula mining operation up to 19 Mtpa,” he concludes.

    DID YOU KNOW?
    Western Foreland is extremely strategic given that the vast majority of it is fully-owned by Ivanhoe – thus offering additional discovery torque outside the current joint venture at Kamoa-Kakula
    Ivanhoe Mines now holds 175 km of strike in the highly-prospective Western Foreland district
    The Western Foreland exploration project is more than six times larger in area than the Kamoa-Kakula mining licence
  2. forum rang 9 nine_inch_nerd 31 mei 2021 19:07
    quote:

    handyman6 schreef op 31 mei 2021 17:13:

    Bij Lynx kun je Ivanhoe Mines € kopen,nu voor €6,13 p.st.IYAA is het symbool.
    Iemand info over verhandelbaarheid,omzet ed?
    Kopen in Cad kan ook ,in $ niet kunnen vinden.
    Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVPAF)
    In de US alleen te vinden op de OTC aandelenmarkt. OTC aandelen zijn niet zomaar te koop bij Brokers. Moet je aanvragen. BB/Saxo doet er al grotendeels niet meer aan.
    Daar staat: Ivanhoe Mines Ltd -reduce only-

    De Canadese variant is toch IVN?
    www.ivanhoemines.com/investors/stock-...
  3. forum rang 10 DeZwarteRidder 2 juni 2021 12:39
    quote:

    nine_inch_nerd schreef op 31 mei 2021 19:07:

    [...]

    Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IVPAF)
    In de US alleen te vinden op de OTC aandelenmarkt. OTC aandelen zijn niet zomaar te koop bij Brokers. Moet je aanvragen. BB/Saxo doet er al grotendeels niet meer aan.
    Daar staat: Ivanhoe Mines Ltd -reduce only-

    De Canadese variant is toch IVN?
    www.ivanhoemines.com/investors/stock-...
    Kopen in Canada is de enige juiste optie.
  4. Maurice021973 8 juni 2021 22:32
    www.bnnbloomberg.ca/world-needs-congo...

    (Zie link voor video.)

    World needs Congo copper to kick fossil fuels, billionaire says

    An African nation emerging from decades of conflict and corruption holds the key to greening the global economy.

    That’s the view of mining magnate Robert Friedland, whose Kamoa-Kakula venture just started producing copper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After scouring 59 countries over more than three decades, the Canadian billionaire says Congo has the world’s best deposits of the metal used in everything from electric cars to solar panels and power grids.

    Governments and companies are embracing electrification to wean the world off fossil fuels, but shortages of metals loom as a major bottleneck unless miners can crank up output at an unprecedented rate. Congolese deposits are taking the spotlight as growth in top supplier Chile slows amid deteriorating ore quality and huge investment burdens.

    “If we came from Mars and we were sent in our flying saucer to orbit the Earth to find copper, we would definitely go to Katanga in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the richest place on the planet for copper,” Friedland said in an interview.

    While geologists have long known about Congo’s potential, exploration and extraction have been hampered by political instability and a lack of transparency and infrastructure.

    Some deterrents linger. The need for power in particular is holding back development, said Paul Mabolia Yenga, head of the planning agency at Congo’s mining ministry. While the largest miners are building or renovating hydroelectric plants, dirty diesel generators are still the norm at many sites.

    Legal security is also still an issue in the central African nation, with producers having to negotiate waivers on a ban on semi-processed copper exports. Companies including Glencore Plc, which runs two large copper and cobalt mines in Congo, have been pressing to amend a mining code that was revised in 2018 to boost the country’s share of industry profits.

    Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. is comfortable operating in Congo and “certain” of being able to ship concentrates until it builds a smelter, he said. The company’s founder and executive co-chairman -- who made his fortune from a Canadian nickel project and was behind a massive copper-gold discovery in Mongolia -- wants to turn the new DRC mine into one of the world’s largest and greenest.

    With a nascent energy transformation making copper the new oil, he likens Congo to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s when the giant Ghawar oil field started. With a government focused on fighting corruption and poverty, money from China, the Middle East and Europe is coming in to a nation whose young, skilled population is anxious to lift up the country, Friedland said.

    While more established copper jurisdictions such as Chile and Peru still command a greater share of mining investment, project development is accelerating faster in Congo, according to CRU Group.

    “It’s not that the DRC has really reduced its country risk dramatically,” Erik Heimlich, a Santiago-based copper analyst with the research firm. “Everywhere is becoming more complicated to develop projects so by comparison they look better.”

    The enormous task of meeting supercharged copper demand in the coming decades means developing more of Congo’s mineral potential will be just a part of the solution. CRU estimates the industry will need to commit an additional $100 billion to fill a supply gap of 5.9 million tons by 2031.

    Copper supply growth in the 1990s and 2000s was centered around Latin America’s porphyry deposits mined at giant open pits like BHP Group’s Escondida in Chile. The tide is turning against such deposits as declining ore quality and the need to de-carbonize operations expose how much power and water mines use, Friedland said. Richer deposits in Congo can run at a much smaller scale using hydro power, limiting their carbon footprint.

    “It’s not clear any longer, when global warming gas becomes a central indicia, that Chile is the obvious place to mine,” Friedland said. “Quite the contrary. The obvious place to mine is now the Congo.”

    A push by politicians in Chile and Peru to take a bigger share of industry profits also challenges country-risk assumptions as Congo appears to welcome back investors. The presence of BlackRock and Fidelity on Ivanhoe’s shareholder register underscores the transparency of the Vancouver-based company’s Congo operations, he said.
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