VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2015) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) today announced that further to its news release dated January 8, 2015, it has filed an independent National Instrument 43-101 technical report on the prefeasibility study of the planned first phase of development of the company's Platreef platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, nickel and copper mine. The NI 43-101 technical report was [...]
Attention: Paul Waldie, Editor, Report on Business, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada, and Geoffrey York, Africa correspondent, The Globe and Mail MOKOPANE, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Jan 12, 2015) - The following is an open letter from Ivanhoe Mines and its subsidiary, Ivanplats, to the Globe and Mail in response to an article published January 10th about the Platreef Mine Development Project in South Africa. The [...]
First phase of development envisages an annual production rate of 433,000 ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold, plus 31 million pounds of nickel and copper Platreef mine is projected to be Africa's lowest-cost producer of platinum-group metals Estimated 150,000 local residents to participate in Platreef's development as equity partners in broad-based, black economic empowerment structure Initial mineral reserve [...]
MOKOPANE, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2014) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland and Chief Executive Officer Lars-Eric Johansson announced today that the total workforce engaged on development of the company's Platreef Project on the Bushveld's Northern Limb, in Limpopo province, now exceeds 650 men and women. More than 500 of the jobs, representing 78% of the total workforce, are held by [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov 26, 2014) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) has condemned actions by a number of known trouble-makers who instigated a confrontation with police near the site of the company's Platreef Project near Mokopane in South Africa's Limpopo province today. The organizers encouraged some residents of nearby communities to gather at an access roadway with false claims that the company would [...]
34.5-metre intercept graded 35.1% zinc, 10.7% copper, 479 grams/tonne silver, 77 g/t germanium and 0.30 g/t gold Additional high-grade zinc intersections recorded outside the historical Big Zinc resource LUBUMBASHI, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO--(Marketwired - Nov 24, 2014) - Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that [...]
Clean TeQ Holdings Limited is pleased to announce it has acquired the Syerston Project in central New South Wales from a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines. The purchase is a significant first step in implementing the Board’s strategy to build Clean TeQ’s metal recovery business by identifying and securing projects which are able to be transformed into world class assets by utilising Clean TeQ’s innovative and [...]
Team assembled through commitment to transformative initiatives leading preparations for resumption of Platreef site work MOKOPANE, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Nov 18, 2014) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland and Chief Executive Officer Lars-Eric Johansson confirmed today that preparations have begun for a resumption of site work for the construction of the initial production shaft as part of [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2014) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) today announced its financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2014. All figures are in US dollars unless otherwise stated. HIGHLIGHTS On November 4, 2014, the South African government's Department of Mineral Resources formally activated Ivanhoe's long-term mining right at the company's Platreef Project in South Africa [...]
Resumption of construction at mine site will end consideration of potential workforce retrenchments PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Nov 5, 2014) - The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) jointly announced today that the mining right for the development and operation of the company's Platreef mining project now has been finalized. The announcement was made by the Minister of Mineral [...]
Overwhelming majority of local communities support planned development of Platreef Project on South Africa's Bushveld Complex JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwired - Oct 8, 2014) - Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), and Dr. Patricia Makhesha, Managing Director of the Ivanplats subsidiary's Platreef Project, today issued a statement responding to spurious allegations made in a [...]
Very low arsenic levels in Kamoa concentrate expected to attract a premium from concentrate traders LUBUMBASHI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO--(Marketwired - Sep 29, 2014) - Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, today issued a summary of recent metallurgical flotation testwork at the company's Kamoa copper project, near the mining centre of [...]