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Kamoa Copper Project is being connected to the DRC’s national electricity grid in time to power mine development work (Kamoa gallery begins at page 10). PROGRESS GALLERY September 2016 Advancing our projects

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Page 1: PROGRESS GALLERY September 2016 Advancing our projects · 2017-04-04 · PROGRESS GALLERY September 2016 Advancing our projects . KAMOA / KAKULA Building our future, today, in Sub-Saharan

Kamoa Copper Project is being connected to the DRC’s national electricity grid

in time to power mine development work (Kamoa gallery begins at page 10).

PROGRESS GALLERY September 2016

Advancing our projects

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KAMOA /

KAKULA

Building our future,

today,

in Sub-Saharan Africa

Democratic

Republic

of Congo

47%-owned

Copper

South Africa

64%-owned

Platinum-group

elements & gold-

nickel-copper

D.R. Congo

68%-owned

Zinc-copper

KIPUSHI PLATREEF

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Removing broken rock from shaft-sinking operations.

Shaft 1 will provide initial access for early underground

development at the Flatreef Deposit and to fast-track

production during the first phase of the Platreef Project.

Platreef

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Kibble bucket (left) that is used to remove broken rock

from the bottom of Shaft 1 in the ongoing sinking work.

Tipping of the kibble bucket (right) to dump the broken rock

at surface.

Platreef

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Muck-clearing operations during a cleaning cycle

in the ongoing sinking work at Shaft 1.

Platreef

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Left: Shaft-winding engine operator.

Right: Live images of shaft work underway relayed

via a closed-circuit TV system and displayed in front

of the winding-engine operator.

Platreef

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Silos used for storing concrete-making materials

adjacent to Shaft 1 headframe.

The concrete is used for lining the shaft as it is being sunk.

Platreef

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Inspection of the jumbo drill being used for shaft-sinking

operations.

Platreef

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Sealing of concrete joints in storm-water collection ponds

at Platreef.

Platreef

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Kamoa

Kamoa Project

map shows the

planned initial

mining area

at Kansoko Sud

and the

adjacent Kakula

exploration

area.

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New high-voltage power line is expected to begin delivering

electricity from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national

grid in October this year for use in construction of the initial

mine being developed at the Kamoa Copper Project.

Kamoa

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Construction of 120-kilovolt power lines linking the Kamoa site

to the national electricity grid is nearing completion.

Kamoa

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Installation of fibre-optic data cables at Kamoa.

Kamoa

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Storm-water pump being prepared for installation

at the Kamoa box cut as part of the ongoing development

of the twin declines.

Kamoa

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Jumbo drill completing holes for another blast

in the ongoing excavation of the declines.

Kamoa

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Kamoa

Underground mine development at Kamoa’s planned mine

at Kansoko Sud is progressing ahead of plan.

The twin declines, incorporating both a service and a conveyor

tunnel, each have advanced more than 160 metres

since the first excavation blast in May of this year.

Kamoa

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One of the seven

drills in operation

at the Kakula

Discovery,

approximately

10 kilometres

southwest of the

Kamoa box cut.

Kamoa

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Drill hole DD1054 at the Kakula Discovery.

Kamoa

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Section from high-grade

chalcocite (80% copper

by weight) in Kakula drill

hole DD1027.

Kamoa

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Kamoa

Louis Watum (left), Ivanhoe’s Managing Director

of DRC Operations, shows a box of high-grade Kakula drill core

to a group of international mining analysts.

Kamoa

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Strong chalcocite (80% copper by weight) mineralization

in core from one of the new holes being drilled at Kakula.

Kamoa

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Kamoa geologists inspecting a drill core of massive chalcocite

from Kakula hole DD1054.

Kamoa

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Section of core showing +12% copper in one of the recent

Kakula drill holes.

Kamoa

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Workers upgrading a pump motor and preparing

it for installation on the mine’s 450-metre level.

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Kipushi

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A mechanic machining a pump flange as part of the upgrading

of existing underground mining equipment installed at Kipushi.

Kipushi

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A motor generator is upgraded (left) and re-installed

underground (right).

Kipushi

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