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Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of Initial Options for the Start-Up of Copper Mining on the Kakula and Kamoa Deposits in the D.R. Congo This Week
2016-12-12 10:56:00 AM ET (Marketwire Canada)
   
   

KOLWEZI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO--(Marketwired - Dec 12, 2016) - Robert Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN)(OTCQX:IVPAF), and Lars-Eric Johansson, Chief Executive Officer, announced today that the engineering team at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project expects to shortly finalize and issue the independent preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of initial options for the start-up of copper mining on the Kakula and Kamoa deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.

OreWin Pty. Ltd., Amec Foster Wheeler E&C Services Inc. and SRK Consulting Inc. are preparing the PEA.

About Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines is advancing its three principal projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mine development at the Platreef platinum-palladium-gold-nickel-copper discovery on the Northern Limb of South Africa's Bushveld Complex; mine development and exploration at the Kamoa-Kakula Project on the Central African Copperbelt in the DRC; and upgrading at the historic, high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-lead-germanium mine, also on the DRC's Copperbelt. For details, visit www.ivanhoemines.com.

Investors Bill Trenaman +1.604.331.9834 Media North America: Bob Williamson +1.604.512.4856 Media South Africa: Jeremy Michaels +27.82.939.4812 www.ivanhoemines.com

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