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Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. T.IVN

Alternate Symbol(s):  IVPAF

Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. is a Canada-based mining, development, and exploration company. It is focused on the mining, development and exploration of minerals and precious metals from its property interests located primarily in Africa. Its projects include Kamoa-Kakula Complex, Western Foreland, Kipushi and Platreef. The Kamoa-Kakula Complex project is a stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, approximately 25 kilometers (kms) west of the town of Kolwezi and approximately 270 kms west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi. The 17 licenses in the Western Foreland cover a combined area of 2,407 square kilometers to the north, south and west of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex. The Kipushi Project lies adjacent to the town of Kipushi and 30 kms southwest of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi. Its Platreef project is situated approximately eight km from Mokopane and 280 km northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa.


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Post by ursusbrumaeon Dec 01, 2016 1:48am
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Kipushi NPV

Kipushi NPVUSD 1.4 billion market cap  USD 400M WC (net-net cash and receivables less all liabilities) = USD 1 billion enterprise value.

At today's LME spot price of $1.22/lb zinc (which is in deficit due to 5 recent major mine closures) NPV8 of Kipushi (by far the company's smallest deposit, which exhibits more than twice the zinc grade of the next highest grade zinc mine in the world) per the recent PEA assumptions but adjusted for spot zinc, is USD 985 million.  Reflecting a deficit of zinc concentrates, treatment charges have fallen from USD 200/tonne to USD 50/tonne.  Assuming USD 100/tonne, NPV8 would increase to roughly USD 1.415 billion.  Add a 25% downward adjustment of pre-production capital, to arrive at USD 1.515 billion, of which the company's 68% interest would be worth roughly USD 1.03 billion, which is approximately equal to — or a little more than — current enterprise value.  That is, revised Kipushi NPV8 plus cash on hand and Zijin receivables, less all liabilities, equals current market capitalisation.

So you are paying effectively ZERO for the two megaprojects, Platreef (the largest precious metals deposit on earth) and Kamoa (the greatest copper discovery in at least 40 years) — oops, THREE megaprojects: how could I forget Kakula — yes, little baby Kakula, who is considerably thicker and higher grade than Kamoa, already the second largest high grade copper project in the world (after Kamoa) and the highest grade copper project on PLANET EARTH...and still growing.  Yes, the three greatest Tier 1 world-scale virgin mines known to man, now being fast-tracked to production, for the price of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Now, a stock which has gained 350% could not possibly be undervalued.  Probably I am just stupid.  Yes, that must be it.  Never mind.
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