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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 Feb 24, 2018 8:28pm
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Post# 27615872

K-K Value Continued at 12% Discount

K-K Value Continued at 12% DiscountBroomer,

If you use a 12% discount rate at $3 copper,

You have a project valuation for a 12 Mtpa K-K mine of:

($3.879 B USD x 39.6%) / 100 = $1.54 B USD

$1.54 B / 0.79 B shares out = $1.94 USD share

At a 12% discount, neither Kipushi nor Platreef would contribute much value. Only 27.5 cents for Platreef, 60 cents for Kipushi at zinc $1.10

IVPAF is currently trading at $2.4576 share. Therefore, you should sell. 

Why own IVN if your own financial analysis criteria of a 12% discount only indicates marginal value? Even if you increase that value by 25% to account for expansion of the resource, it's not worth it. I'm not saying you're wrong. There is no right or wrong answer here. That's a personal decision. I am saying it doesn't make any sense to hold onto this Company if you truly believe a 12% discount is desirable.

My own opinion is if the Company feels the political environment is not conducive to business, they will simply delay until which time circumstances are more favourable. That's what is happening in South Africa with Platreef. Instead of assigning some elevated discount rate, they do have the option to delay construction. IVN is in the mining business, not the gambling business. If the Kabila regime turns this into Russian roulette, management always has the option to leave the casino, or at least hang out in the lounge until closing time.The intrinsic value is still there. It doesn't disappear. 
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