Overview
| Stage | Production |
| Mine Type | Underground |
| Commodities |
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| Mining Method |
- Drift & Fill
- Paste backfill
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| Production Start | ...  |
| Mine Life | 2064 |
Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex’s Phase 1 concentrator achieved commercial production on July 1, 2021. The Phase 2 concentrator, which doubled nameplate production capacity, was commissioned in April 2022.
The debottlenecking program of Kamoa-Kakula's Phase 1 and Phase 2 concentrators increased nameplate processing capacity to a combined total of 9.2 Mtpa in February 2023.
Phase 3 expansion and copper smelter with a copper anode production capacity of 500 thousand tonnes per annum are expected to complete construction and commence production in October 2024. Following the commissioning of Phase 3 Kamoa-Kakula will have a total processing capacity of over 14 Mtpa. The Phase 4 expansion consists of an additional 5.0 Mtpa concentrator that will take the total processing capacity of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex up to 19.2 Mtpa and it will become the world’s second largest copper mining complex. |
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| Company | Interest | Ownership |
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Crystal River Global Ltd.
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0.8 %
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Indirect
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Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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20 %
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Indirect
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Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
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39.6 %
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Indirect
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Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd
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39.6 %
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Indirect
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Kamoa Copper SA
(operator)
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100 %
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Direct
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The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project — a joint venture between Ivanhoe (39.6%), Zijin (39.6%) and Crystal River Global Limited (0.8%), which each hold an indirect interest through ownership of Kamoa Holding Limited, and the DRC which holds a direct 20% interest in Kamoa Copper.
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Summary:
The mineralisation identified to date within the Project is typical of sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits. Such deposits can be hosted in either marine or continental (red-bed) sediments. Major global examples of these deposits include the Kupferschiefer (Poland), most of the deposits within the Central African Copperbelt (such as Konkola, Nkana, Nchanga, Mufulira, Tenke–Fungurume, and Kolwezi), Redstone (Canada), and White Pine (USA).
The modelled Kamoa deposit is located in a broadly-folded terrane, with the antiform centred on the Kamoa and Makalu domes. The central portions of Kakula are located on the southern extension of this antiform, with Kakula West located on the top of a separate, but parallel trending antiform. The domes form erosional windows exposing the redox boundary between the underlying haematitic (oxidised) Roan sandstones (Mwashya Subgroup), and the overlying carbonaceous and sulfidic (reduced) Grand Conglomérat diamictite (N’Guba Group), which comprises diamictites with minor interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and conglomerate. The mineralisation at Kamoa-Kakula is hosted towards the base of the Grand Conglomérat unit (Ki1.1).
Mineralisation at Kamoa-Kakula has been defined over an irregularly-shaped area of about 28 km x 23 km. Mineralisation is typically stratiform, and vertically zoned from the base upward with chalcocite (Cu2S), bornite (Cu5FeS4) and chalcopyrite (CuFeS2). The nature of the copper grade distribution is r ........
Mining Methods
- Drift & Fill
- Paste backfill
Summary:
The Kamoa-Kakula 2023 PFS (Phase 3 and 4 expansion) plans for a staged increase in nameplate processing capacity from the current combined capacity of 9.2 Mtpa, up to a total of 19.2 Mtpa. The Phase 1 and 2 concentrators will continue to process ore from the Kakula Mine, as well as the new adjacent Kakula West Mine from 2029. The Phase 3, 5.0 Mtpa concentrator, which is under construction and on target for the first concentrate in Q4 2024, will be fed with ore from the existing Kansoko Sud Mine (formerly Kansoko Mine), as well as new mines currently under development in the Kamoa area, known as Kamoa 1 and 2.
The drift-and-fill method will be utilised as the primary mining method for all Kamoa-Kakula deposits. Identified mining areas with a dip greater than 25° will be mined using the hanging wall access drift-and-fill (HWAD&F) method.
The Kakula is a current operating mine.
The Kakula LOM milling schedule targets 9.2 Mtpa processed. The initial ramp-up scheduled tonnage will be supplemented with stockpiled ore in order to meet the processing target.
As Kakula West begins to ramp-up, Kakula production will ramp down, with the total ore provided to the mill remaining constant at 9.2 Mtpa. The initial ramp-up scheduled tonnage for Kakula West will be supplemented with ore from Kakula in order to meet the processing target. Initially, Kakula West will ramp-up and remain at a steady state of 3.2 Mtpa for nine-years (2029–2037).
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Reserves at December 31, 2022:
The Mineral Reserves reported at an elevated cut-off of $100.00/t NSR was used to define the stoping blocks. A marginal cut-off of $80.00/t NSR was used for development.
Mineral Resources for the Kamoa-Kakula Project using a 1.0% TCu cut-off.
| Category | Tonnage | Commodity | Grade | Contained Metal |
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Probable
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472 Mt
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Copper
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3.94 %
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41,055 M lbs
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Measured
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90 Mt
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Copper
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3.13 %
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6.2 B lbs
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Indicated
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1,300 Mt
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Copper
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2.7 %
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77.4 B lbs
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Inferred
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310 Mt
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Copper
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1.68 %
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11.5 B lbs
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Staff:
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