Ivanhoe boosts copper resource by 35pc13:21, Thursday, 10...

Ivanhoe boosts copper resource by 35pc
13:21, Thursday, 10 December 2009

Sydney - Thursday - December 10: (RWE Aust Business News) -
Ivanhoe Australia (ASX:IVA) reports the Mount Dore copper deposit has
been increased 35pc.
Mount Dore's total Identified Mineral Resource estimate (based
on a JORC equivalent estimate) at 0.25pc Cu cut-off is 108m tonnes at
0.6pc copper, 0.2pc zinc, 0.1 g/t gold, 87 ppm cobalt and 6.0 g/t
silver.
This resource contains both secondary and primary mineralisation
and is categorised as 53 million tonnes of secondary mineralisation at
0.65% copper which is amenable to heap leaching and 55 million tonnes of
primary mineralisation which forms the basis of the Mount Dore
polymetallic Mineral Resource (Cu, Au, Zn, Pb, Co, Ag.