Rail passage travels through Western Foreland licences and within 5 kilometres of Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex
Range from Kamoa-Kakula to Angolan Lobito Ocean Port is around cut in half compared to Durban, South Africa, attending to substantial prospective logistics cost enhancement
Lobito Passage and other efforts, such as Ivanhoe’s deal with the Kipushi border, set to change local logistics in the DRC and neighbouring nations
Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo–( Newsfile Corp. – Might 24, 2023) – Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) (OTCQX: IVPAF) Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President Marna Cloete reveal that the U.S. Federal government made a press declaration throughout the 2023 G7 Top in Hiroshima, Japan, mentioning that the United States International Advancement Financing Corporation (DFC) is presently carrying out due diligence for a possible $250 million financial investment to fund the open-access Lobito Atlantic Train Passage (Lobito Passage) from the port of Lobito in Angola to the Angolan-DRC border.
The “transformative financial passage” links the Angolan port of Lobito to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Copperbelt. When completely functional, the Lobito Passage might considerably enhance the logistics expenses and carbon footprint of exporting metals from the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, the Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, in addition to the future advancement of any copper discoveries within the Western Foreland Expedition Task.
The statement follows the current award of a 30-year concession on the Angolan side of the Lobito Passage, with the capacity of a 20-year extension, to a consortium consisting of Trafigura Pte Ltd., of Geneva, Switzerland, and Mota-Engil of Porto, Portugal. The consortium will be accountable for the operation, management and upkeep of the rail facilities and rolling stock from the Lobito port to the Angolan-DRC border. The arrangement revealed in the 4th quarter of 2022 includes an overall financial investment of $450 million, consisting of $166 million in facilities upgrades and $70 million in rolling stock. Even more, on January 27, 2023, the federal governments of Angola, DRC, and Zambia signed the Lobito Passage Transit Transportation Assistance Firm Contract (LCTTFA). The tri-partite LCTTFA intends to collaborate the joint advancement activities of the Lobito Passage. The Lobito Passage offers an option, tactical path to export markets for both Zambia and the DRC, which today both rely greatly on roadway transport for the export of metals.
Link to the complete U.S. Federal government press declaration: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/20/fact-sheet-partnership-for-global-infrastructure-and-investment-at-the-g7-summit/
Ivanhoe Mines’ Executive Co-Chairman, Robert Friedland, commented:
” The Lobito Passage will quickly be among the most crucial trade paths for essential copper metal and other crucial minerals needed for our world’s energy shift. The proposed financial investment by the U.S. Federal government stresses that a collaborated international effort is needed to update crucial facilities throughout sub-Saharan Africa to open the incredible capacity of this area, and at the same time produce extraordinary financial advantages for the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbours, Angola and Zambia.
” The open access to the deep-water port in Lobito by rail would not be possible without the vision and financial investment made by our investors CITIC and Zijin. CITIC contributed in updating the Lobito port and the railway in 2014, while our joint endeavor partner Zijin is presently active in updating roadway and border facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to make it possible for access to the Lobito Passage from the Copperbelt, in addition to enhance existing export passages.
” If we are to resolve the overwhelming obstacles of international environment modification, it is necessary that we have worldwide cooperation to establish accountable mineral supply chains, in collaboration with the regional individuals and neighborhoods where these mineral deposits lie.”
Freight train on the Lobito Passage, near the port of Lobito in Angola. The rail passage, initially called the Benguela Train, was very first constructed at the turn of the 20 th Century and in 2014 a $1.8 billion repair was finished. Source: Ministry of Transportation for Angola.
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The freight terminal at the Lobito port, Angola. Reconditioned in 2014, the container and basic freight terminal has an overall location of 241,540 square metres, a berth of 1,199 metres and the capability to deal with more than 600,000 lots of non-containerized freight and 250,000 TEU (twenty-foot comparable systems) of containerized freight annually.
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Figure 1. Map of export paths presently utilized by Kamoa-Kakula. Logistics costs represent over 30% of Kamoa-Kakula’s overall money expenses (C1), due to the long in-land ranges taken a trip by roadway for exports to reach port.
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Figure 2. Map of Kamoa-Kakula and Western Foreland licences with regional roadway and rail facilities.
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All figures remain in U.S. dollars unless otherwise specified.
About Ivanhoe Mines
Ivanhoe Mines is a Canadian mining business concentrated on advancing its 3 primary jobs in Southern Africa; the growth of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex in the DRC, the building of the tier-one Platreef palladium-rhodium-platinum-nickel-copper-gold task in South Africa; and the reboot of the historical ultra-high-grade Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, likewise in the DRC.
Ivanhoe Mines likewise is checking out for brand-new copper discoveries throughout its circa 2,400 km 2 of 90-100% owned expedition licences in the Western Foreland, situated surrounding to, or in close distance to, the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex in the DRC.
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Such declarations consist of without restriction, the timing and outcomes of: (i) declarations that the Angolan Lobito Ocean Port is around cut in half compared to Durban, South Africa, and attends to substantial prospective logistics cost enhancement; (ii) declarations that the Lobito Passage might considerably enhance the carbon footprint of exporting metals from the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, the Kipushi zinc-copper-germanium-silver mine, in addition to the future advancement of any copper discoveries within the Western Foreland Expedition Task; (iii) declarations that the Lobito Passage and other efforts, such as Ivanhoe’s deal with the Kipushi border, set to change local logistics in the DRC and neighbouring nations, consisting of Angola and Zambia; (iv) declarations that the Lobito Passage will quickly be among the most crucial trade paths for essential copper metal and other crucial minerals; and (v) declarations relating to future rail spur from Kamoa.
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