Ivanhoe Mines receives fourth of five scheduled US$41.2 million installment payments from Zijin Mining Group as part of Zijin’s US$412 million investment in the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in D.R. Congo VANCOUVER, CANADA −
February 8, 2017
Ivanhoe Mines receives fourth of five scheduled US$41.2 million
installment payments from Zijin Mining Group
as part of Zijin’s US$412 million investment
in the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in D.R. Congo
VANCOUVER, CANADA − Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) announced today that
it has received the fourth installment of US$41.2 million owing from a subsidiary of Zijin Mining
Group Co., Ltd. as part of a strategic co-development agreement under which Zijin acquired
49.5% of Ivanhoe’s majority stake in Kamoa Holding Limited that holds the interest in the
Kamoa-Kakula copper discovery, now being jointly developed by Ivanhoe and Zijin in the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
Zijin − through its subsidiary, Gold Mountains (H.K.) International Mining Company Limited –
agreed to pay US$412 million for a 49.5% interest in Kamoa Holding Limited. Zijin paid an
initial US$206 million at closing in December 2015, followed by the payment of the first three of
five scheduled US$41.2 million installments in March, July and October of last year. Following
the signing of a partnership agreement with the DRC government in November 2016, Ivanhoe
and Zijin Mining now each hold an indirect 39.6% interest in the Kamoa-Kakula Project, Crystal
River Global Limited holds an indirect 0.8% interest and the DRC government holds a direct
20% interest. Kamoa Holding Limited continues to hold an 80% interest in the Kamoa-Kakula
Project.
After the receipt of the fourth installment from Zijin, Ivanhoe’s consolidated working capital is
approximately US$355 million (C$467 million).
The fifth and final US$41.2 million installment payment is due on May 23, 2017. The installment
payments are secured by a pledge of shares of Kamoa Holding Limited with proportionate
releases of the security on the pledged shares following receipt of each installment payment.
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 copper discovery 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.
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