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Kipushi PEA places Ivanhoe’s DRC redevelopment project in league of its own

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Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America
 
BASE METALS DEVELOPMENT
Africa-focused project developer Ivanhoe Mines has reported strong operating metrics for the high-grade Kipushi zinc/copper mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after publishing a new preliminary economic assessment (PEA) Monday. The PEA, conducted by consulting engineering firms OreWin, of Adelaide, Australia, and the MSA Group, of Johannesburg, South Africa, calculated an after-tax net present value at an 8% real discount rate of $533-million, and an after-tax internal rate of return of 30.9%.
 
 
 
 
 

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