JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Canadian exploration and development company Ivanhoe Mines and joint-venture partner Chinese miner Zijin Mining were preparing to accelerate a planned infill drilling programme at the Kamoa copper project’s Kakula discovery, area, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), starting next month. Speaking at the 15th World Copper Conference in Santiago, Chile, Ivanhoe Mines executive chairperson Robert Friedland said the Kamoa exploration team’s goal is to complete about 25 000 m of additional drilling in the Kakula discovery area in 2016.
