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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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Post by bloomfield18on Nov 19, 2017 2:11pm
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Post# 26992386

Payable/Recovered Metal

Payable/Recovered MetalActually, undiscounted cash flow can improve due to three factors:

1) More ore grade resource
2) Streamlining Production
3) Larger Economy of Scale

Any increase in after tax cash flow is great for shareholders, of course, but I'm most interested in 1 above, since this will tell us if drilling has reached the limits of ore grade resource expansion. If so, work would now be focused on upgrading existing resources through infill drilling. 

There are currently 16.052 billion lbs of "Payable" or "Recovered" Metal. Adding 25% to ore grade inventory, increases payable copper to 20.065 billion lbs. IVN share of that recovered metal is:

16.052 billion lbs x 0.404 (If IVN buys Crystal River) = 6.485 billion lbs

20.065 billion lbs x 0.404 (an increase of 25% Recovered Cu) = 8.106 billion lbs

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