MINING

Record underground development at Kamoa-Kakula copper project

Ivanhoe Mines co-chairs Robert Friedland and Yufeng ‘Miles’ Sun have announce that underground development at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mined and stockpiled 269,000t of ore grading 5.36 per cent copper in December from the Kakula and Kansoko mines, a 7.6 per cent higher tonnage than November, while the copper grade was 10.5 per cent higher.

 Miners operating a jumbo drill at the face of a high-grade development drift near the centre of the Kakula Mine

Miners operating a jumbo drill at the face of a high-grade development drift near the centre of the Kakula Mine

The project is on track to have approximately three million tonnes of high-grade and medium-grade ore stockpiled on surface, holding more than 125,000t of contained copper, prior to the planned start of...

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