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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. The Company is focused on the mining, development and exploration of minerals and precious metals from its property interests located primarily in Africa. Its projects include The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, The Kipushi Project, The Platreef Project., and The Western Foreland Exploration Project. The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex project stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, approximately 25 kilometers (km) west of the town of Kolwezi and about 270 km west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi. The Kipushi mine is adjacent to the town of Kipushi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) approximately 30 km southwest of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi. The 21 licenses in the Western Foreland cover a combined area of 1,808 square kilometers to the north, south and west of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex.


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Comment by coocoologyon Nov 02, 2017 11:32pm
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RE:6+6+6 Mtpa Fails to make the Grade

RE:6+6+6 Mtpa Fails to make the GradeLOL. It would be prudent for you to shut up already. You know nothing Jon Snow. 

bloomfield18 wrote: The BMO report assumes that Kamoa, Kakula Main, and Kakula West will all produce 6 Mtpa. This formed the basis of their $8 price target. For the first two years each separate stream would produce 3 Mtpa, and thereafter 6 Mtpa sequentially. For the first five years grade would be 6.5%. Therein lies the problem.

Out of 20 drillholes released from KW, at the 3% cutoff, only two were higher than 6.5%:

DH 1163: 5.28m at 9.54%
DH 1177: 9.62m at 7.57%

2 years at 3 Mtpa + 3 years at 6 Mtpa = 24,000,000 tonnes at 6.5% copper. How can anyone  arrive at such a large value from just two drillholes?

Furthermore, only 5 of the 20 drillholes, or one quarter, exceed 5.5% at the 3% cutoff.

At this point it may be prudent for investors to assume a 6+6 scenario, Kamoa and Kakula, where Kakula West is simply an extension of Kakula Main. They could still go with a 6+6+6 scenario, but it may be at a lower grade.




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