Robert Friedland to present at prestigious China Development Forum’s fall summit in Beijing on September 16 BEIJING, CHINA – Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) announced today that Executive Chairman Robert Friedland will be a featured speaker at the prestigious China
September 11, 2018
Robert Friedland to present at prestigious
China Development Forum’s fall summit in Beijing
on September 16
BEIJING, CHINA – Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) announced today that
Executive Chairman Robert Friedland will be a featured speaker at the prestigious China
Development Forum’s first fall summit in Beijing on September 16 this year. The
conference’s theme is A New Chapter for China's Reform and Opening-up.
The China Development Forum, focusing on China’s continuing opening up to the
world, is organized by the State Council’s Development Research Center. It is viewed as
the most significant conference in China where foreign corporate leaders may exchange
views with high-level Chinese government officials, policy makers and senior
executives of major Chinese companies and state-owned enterprises.
Mr. Friedland’s presentation will outline the need to fast-track new resource projects to
produce key, “green metals” that already are recognized as essential for the world’s
rapidly urbanizing future.
“People’s evolving expectations will demand that this dawning Smart Age be
accompanied by a lot of appropriately smart thinking when it comes to applying
technologies and materials to the planning and building of sustainable cities and the
safeguarding of critical environments,” Mr. Friedland said.
“What could be more fundamental to a Smart-Age lifestyle than effectively managing
the quality of the air that we all breathe, providing for efficient transportation to help us
get around without burning fossil fuels, and distributing – and actually storing – very
large volumes of clean electricity?”
Mr. Friedland said the Beijing forum will provide unique opportunities to speak directly
with Chinese decision makers and potentially contribute to their awareness of the
critical roles that strategic “green metals” can play in helping to effectively apply
advanced technologies in urban areas.
“Ivanhoe Mines and other companies associated with Singapore-based Ivanhoe Capital
Corporation, including Clean TeQ and VRB Energy, are positioning to be among
resource industry leaders at the forefront of the drive to produce and utilize metals such
as copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc, platinum-group metals, vanadium and scandium that are
vital to help sustain our urbanizing planet.”
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Mr. Friedland said Ivanhoe Mines has two very supportive Chinese partners – CITIC
Metal and Zijin Mining – helping to develop Ivanhoe’s three principal projects in
Southern Africa.
“Ivanhoe and our partners share a vision of the forces now shaping future markets for
metals. Together, we will set an important example of business cooperation between
China and Canada.
“Senior executives at Ivanhoe Mines and Ivanhoe Capital are looking forward to further
strengthening our collaboration with Chinese companies and state-owned enterprises
in mining development, energy conservation and environmental protection that could
further contribute to economic successes that have been realized in China and
elsewhere.”
About Ivanhoe Mines
Ivanhoe Mines is advancing its three principal projects in Southern Africa: 1) Development of a new
mine at the Platreef platinum-palladium-nickel-copper-gold discovery on the Northern Limb of South
Africa’s Bushveld Complex; 2) new mine development and exploration at the tier-one Kamoa-Kakula
copper discovery on the Central African Copperbelt in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and 3)
extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic, high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-silver-
germanium mine, also on the DRC’s Copperbelt. For details, visit www.ivanhoemines.com.
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