Construction of permanent highway linking the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project to Kolwezi airport approximately 25% complete New road infrastructure will provide Kamoa-Kakula with important new transportation connections for shipping construction
June 24, 2019
Construction of permanent highway linking the Kamoa-Kakula
Copper Project to Kolwezi airport approximately 25% complete
New road infrastructure will provide Kamoa-Kakula with important
new transportation connections for shipping construction
materials and copper concentrates
KOLWEZI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO – Robert Friedland and Yufeng “Miles”
Sun, Co-Chairmen of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF), announced today that
with the onset of the dry season in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
construction of the new highway directly linking the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project to
the Kolwezi airport, located southeast of the city of Kolwezi, is progressing rapidly.
The new 34-kilometre, east-west road is approximately 25% complete and is expected to
be fully operational by the end of 2019. When complete, the road will significantly
improve Kamoa-Kakula’s transportation corridor that is being used to bring in mining
equipment and construction materials, and that will be used to transport copper
concentrates. The new road also will improve the safety and commuting time for
employees between Kamoa-Kakula and Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, as well as for mine
visitors arriving at the Kolwezi airport. See Figure 1 for details.
The new road will provide Kamoa-Kakula with a direct, high-quality connection to the
national road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, and to a proposed, new south-bound
provincial road that will connect to Lumwana, Zambia and the Zambian rail system, via a
planned new border crossing. This proposed heavy-haul route to Zambia would
significantly streamline truck freight to and from Kamoa-Kakula.
The Kamoa-Kakula joint venture is constructing 19 kilometres of the new provincial
road (red line in Figure 1), while the Lualaba provincial government is constructing the
remaining 15 kilometres (light blue line in Figure 1) under a toll concession agreement
with a DRC-based contracting company. The toll road also will include a new north-
bound, nine-kilometre section of road (yellow line in Figure 1) connecting all the mines
on the western side of Kolwezi to the new provincial road.
A separate eight-kilometre, private mine access road also is being constructed by the
Kamoa-Kakula joint venture at Kamoa-Kakula to safely by-pass the villages of Israel and
Kaponda (green line in Figure 1). This road also is expected to be fully operational by
the end of 2019 and will connect the Kakula Mine directly to the new 34-kilometre
provincial road. The private mine road also will be available for transporting ore mined
elsewhere on the Kamoa-Kakula Project to the Kakula concentrator for processing.
Figure 1: Map showing roads linking Kamoa-Kakula to Kolwezi airport, Lubumbashi, Luau (Angola),
and the proposed road to Zambia.
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Figure 2: Regional railway and road system linking DRC mines with Angola’s Atlantic port of Lobito,
and ports in South Africa and Tanzania.
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Figures 3 and 4: Ongoing construction work on the new 11-metre wide highway
from the Kamoa-Kakula Project to Kolwezi airport, which is designed for speeds
up to 80 kilometres per hour.
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About the Kamoa-Kakula Project
The Kamoa-Kakula Project is approximately 25 kilometres west of the mining
centre of Kolwezi in the DRC. It is a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines (39.6%), Zijin
Mining Group (39.6%), Crystal River Global Limited (0.8%) and the DRC government
(20%). Ivanhoe Mines and Zijin Mining are co-funding development of the Kamoa-Kakula
Copper Project.
About Ivanhoe Mines
Ivanhoe Mines is a Canadian mining company focused on advancing its three principal
projects in Southern Africa: the development of new mines at the Kamoa-Kakula copper
discoveries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Platreef palladium-
platinum-nickel-copper-gold discovery in South Africa; and the extensive
redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver
mine, also in the DRC. Ivanhoe also is exploring for new copper discoveries on its
wholly-owned Western Foreland exploration licences in the DRC, near the Kamoa-
Kakula Project.
Information contacts
Investors
Bill Trenaman +1.604.331.9834
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Such statements include without limitation: (i) statements regarding the new 34-kilometre, east-west
highway is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2019; (ii) statements regarding the eight-
kilometre, private, mine haulage road on the Kamoa-Kakula Project also is expected to be fully
operational by the end of 2019; (iii) statements regarding the private mine road also will be available for
transporting ore mined elsewhere on the Kamoa-Kakula Project to the Kakula concentrator for
processing; and (iv) statements regarding a proposed, new south-bound provincial road to the Zambian
rail system at Solwezi, Zambia, via a new border crossing, would significantly streamline truck freight to
and from Kamoa-Kakula.
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