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Zijin shares jump to highest in 3 years
The company’s shares jumped after buying into Barrick, Ivanhoe projects.
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Separately, the company based in China’s Fujian province, agreed to acquire 49.5% of Ivanhoe Mines’ Kamoa copper project in Congo for $412 million. Ivanhoe shares jumped as much as 17% yesterday.
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Congolese Mines Minister Martin Kabwelulu said by text message he was unaware of the sale.
Ivanhoe has offered to sell an additional 15% to the government at market rates.
Congo blocked a previous attempt in 2010 by Zijin to enter the country, Africa’s largest copper producer. The ministry refused to approve the company’s $284 million bid for a stake in the Deziwa and Ecaille C copper and cobalt projects because it said the sale violated government regulations. The operations are now fully owned by state-owned miner Gecamines.
Zijin has an option to buy an additional 1% stake upon arranging project finance for 65% of Kamoa’s first phase of development, the company said Tuesday in a joint statement with Ivanhoe. Should it exercise that option, Zijin will arrange project financing for subsequent development phases, the parties said.
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The first phase of Kamoa entails developing a 100,000-ton copper mine at an estimated cost of $1.4 billion. A smelter will be constructed in a second phase in addition to other expansions that will take annual output of blister copper to 300,000 tons.
“We will examine the possibility of expanding the Kamoa project beyond the currently contemplated second phase,” the companies said in the statement.
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In March 2014, a financing agreement was signed between Ivanhoe and the DRC's national electricity company, La Société Nationale d'Electricité (SNEL). Ivanhoe is working with SNEL to upgrade two existing hydroelectric power plants -- Mwadingusha and Koni -- to recover up to 113 megawatts of capacity to be made available to the national power supply grid. SNEL will provide the Kamoa Project with up to 100 megawatts from the grid, which would be sufficient to operate the initial phase of the Kamoa mine.
A third hydroelectric power plant -- Nzilo 1 -- would follow under the same financing agreement. Nzilo 1 will have a capacity of approximately 108 megawatts upon completion, entitling Kamoa to receive an additional 100 megawatts from the grid. The upgraded technology planned to be applied will increase the original design capacity of these power plants by up to 10%.
A combined total of 200 megawatts from the grid would provide sufficient power for Kamoa's 300,000 tonnes per year smelter and the associated future mine expansions.
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