In the DRC, Ivanhoe Mines is partnering with Bill Gates and the EU to reduce the energy used in mines.

Ivanhoe Mines, which operates the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine in the DRC, will partner with a company co-founded by a fund financed by the EU and Bill Gates to improve the mining production process. In the long term, the company can hope to reduce its carbon footprint and increase its revenues. On June 15, the mining company Ivanhoe Mines, active at the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine in the DRC, announced an investment of 76 million dollars in the American company I-Pulse, the parent company of I-ROX. Co-founded last November by an investment fund financed by the European Union and billionaire Bill Gates, I-ROX is developing technology to reduce the energy used to crush and grind